• Connecting councils, local authorities, neighbourhoods, and other local groups to implement practical steps now to transform their region and utilise cleaner environmental strategies  
• Designing funding and budgets needed to protect the most vulnerable groups and regions most impacted by the climate crisis  
• Matching local, national, and international goals to ensure a quick, effective transition plan to net zero emissions and reduction in environmental degradation  

• Setting a shared vision across industries, regions, and countries to guide adaptation, devolving decision-making to enhance equitable adaptation measures 
• Building climate resilience by introducing and monitoring scalable solutions, acknowledging the structural inequalities affecting vulnerabilities and transformation 
• Championing global objectives at the local level by sharing innovation and knowledge 

• Assessing and mapping levels of climate disadvantage by identifying vulnerable groups and regions and their impact on environmental outcomes 
• Highlighting neighbourhoods most at risk by considering physical and social risk factors including older age, health conditions, transport links, ecosystems, quality of energy and housing 
• Developing resources that recognise the distribution of local characteristics to shape socially aware responses 
• Driving climate adaptation strategies with community-led insights while incorporating accessibility in the decision-making processes 

• The aim of Climate Action Towns is: to support place-based climate action in a network of small Scottish towns, working collaboratively with local communities. 
• This presentation will focus on the process, opportunities, and challenges over the last two years before focusing on some case study examples. 
• Methods used to engage community members with the climate change discussion
• Short Case study examples from the Climate Action Towns

• The impact of climate in and on the workplace
• Ending the 'eco' specialism
• Carbon Literacy and its impacts on employees and the environment
• Proposing a scaleable framework for implementation

• Sharing personal experiences and learnings from underrepresented communities and those most at risk across  
• Prioritising diversity, inclusion, and communication to value the needs and voices of groups neglected in climate conversations 
• Using art to question and challenge mainstream discourses on climate
• By design, the past has not been inclusive. Climate change--and the distribution of its impacts--has to be examined from the lens of an unequal system.
• We have an opportunity, and maybe even an imperative, to critically examine the past and carefully consider what future we want to create. This requires us to look at 'subjective' dimensions of adaptation, not just physical responses.
• We should strive to build a future that is inclusive by design, especially in the context of climate adaptation.

• Normalising resilient green infrastructure through improving capacity, creativity, and alliances 
• Learning how to mobilise and diversify investment to maximise resource efficiency on low-emission infrastructure  
• Exploring the national policy framework to deliver this transition by recognising the role of finance in achieving local sustainable development 

• Developing partnerships and opportunities to share learning, training, reporting and resilience strategies  
• Working collaboratively to achieve climate goals, overcome common barriers, and drive viable, green initiatives 
• Supporting organisations to work across sectors in achieving sustainability targets through co-developing evidence-led solutions and policies 
• Sharing advice, reviewing existing approaches and engaging key stakeholders to identify future pathways and practical action plans 

• Introduction to climate change adaptation
• Participatory approaches to understanding local climate change impacts
• What building collective resilience to the impacts of climate change looks like in practice
• Unpacking vulnerability: what does power have to do with it?
• Tools and resources to support transformative adaptation

• Recognising the benefit of setting progressive climate strategies to improve resilience, governance, and collaboration  
• Embracing the learning of local actors by adopting immediate, transformative, and systemic change to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement 
• Raising standards and global benchmarks by demonstrating the power of ambitious green projects across cities  
• Questions and answers

*Programme subject to change without notice