Enablers for Urban Transformations toward Just and Climate-Resilient Futures

This session introduces Weaving Urban Futures (WeUF), an innovative research-based participatory framework that helps citymakers collaboratively design just and climate-resilient futures. Developed through the Transformative Urban Coalitions (TUC) action research project, WeUF builds on experiences from Urban Labs in Latin America, where diverse actors co-produced locally grounded climate solutions.

Participants engage directly with elements of the WeUF guidebook and toolbox, including a card game, to explore key urban transformation enablers (e.g. place-based coalitions, community-driven action, knowledge co-production, collaborative stewardship). Through a facilitated exercise, participants will reflect on which enablers are most critical in their contexts and how to strengthen partnerships and collective capacity for localizing climate goals.

Format: WeUF Introduction (UNU, 10min); Interactive exercise with WeUF card game (small groups, 30min); Panel reflection on transformation enablers across cities and sectors (UNU, IIED, WRI, 20min). Participants leave with practical methods and diverse insights to foster inclusive urban climate action.