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This episode is inspired by the paper, "Creating local storylines for climate mitigation and adaptation with policymakers across Europe: a new participatory and bottom-up method". We explore a novel, bottom-up methodology designed to help cities and regions address the urgent, yet deeply local, impacts of climate change.

Join us as we unpack:

• The critical need for context-dependent climate policies that account for local needs and priorities, moving beyond global frameworks.
• How this innovative methodology uses "what-if" questions and a structured Scope-Actions-Actors-Sectors (SAAS) framework to transform policymakers' visions into actionable climate storylines by 2050.
• The revealing insights from its application with policymakers across four diverse European case studies (Norrbotten, Trentino, Tulcea, Sitia), showcasing significant differences in their priorities for mitigation vs. adaptation, chosen policy actions, key actors, and impacted economic sectors.
• How this approach bridges local and scientific knowledge, fostering creativity, agency, and a strong sense of ownership among stakeholders in co-creating desirable, policy-relevant futures.

Ref:

López-Muñoz, P., Llases, L., Lauer, A., & Mencarini, E. (2025). Creating local storylines for climate mitigation and adaptation with policymakers across Europe: A new participatory and bottom-up method. Futures, 171, 103617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2025.103617