What is LO-ACT?
LO-ACT is looking at the 'ordinary actions' taken by citizens to improve everyday life whilst tackling climate change.
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The project will examine specific examples of climate change actions and policies to find out how ideas, materials, technologies, and expertise can be transferred across urban contexts.
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LO-ACT will develop tools to design and discuss urban climate change politics.
Why?
Ordinary Actions
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Academics and policymakers prioritise the study of hi-tech solutions or focus on the needs of global, wealthy cities...
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We need new methods and approaches that see low-carbon actions as initiatives that emerge from within cities and that respond to local problems.
Who?
Ordinary Citizens
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Attaining low-carbon cities depends on ordinary actions, the kind of small shifts in everyday life whereby citizens themselves become the agents of change.
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These 'ordinary actions' are crucial to deliver large-scale transformations and innovations needed to build low carbon cities.
Where?
Ordinary Cities
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By 2050, 2 out 3 inhabitants on Earth will live in urban areas.
The project focuses on cities under 1 million inhabitants in areas of Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
When?
Act now!
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Responses to climate change are taking place now. We need to understand if current actions are enough to address the climate crisis.
