Climate-focused territorial advances: exploring possibilities for a future resilient to environmental challenges
Ready, Set, Innovate: Seizing Opportunities in a Changing Climate
Let's face it, climate change ain't no joke. Heatwaves, floods, and water shortages are becoming all too common, and they're not just threats—they're opportunities for innovation, new jobs, and territorial growth. But how, you ask? That's where the JRC's new 'Navigating Opportunity Spaces' guide comes in.
This hands-on playbook for local, regional, and national decision-makers offers a three-phase journey to help you transform climate challenges into opportunities:
- Identifying Opportunity Spaces: Learn to recognize and capitalize on the potential for innovation in your territory, understanding that tackling climate issues can also spur growth.
- Mapping Opportunity Spaces: Use a practical tool to analyze and strategize on these potential opportunities, with guided exercises and a forward-thinking approach to explore possibilities.
- Learning Through Examples: Study success stories from different EU territories and adapt their strategies to your own challenges and opportunities.
Co-creation is key in this process. The guide outlines a two-step co-creation process, facilitating discussions on self-assessment, challenges, gaps, and risks, and turning those insights into actionable plans.
For a deeper dive, the guide showcases a visual mapping tool to help explore opportunities and challenges at the local level. It's flexible and modular, supporting both workshops and lengthier processes that combine co-creation with desk research.
So, are you ready to turn the heatwaves into hot businesses and the floods into flowing profits? The 'Navigating Opportunity Spaces' guide, born from collaborations between the JRC, European Commission, and other key players, can help you make it happen. Sustainable, resilient, and equitable growth? Here we come!
P.S. If you're curious, JRC usually produces guides like this to help stakeholders tackle challenges like climate change, boost innovation, and foster territorial development. This guide's focus on transformative innovation strategies could include strategies for climate change adaptation, innovation and job creation, and territorial growth—helping you seize opportunities in a changing climate.
- In the fight against climate change, identifying opportunity spaces can lead to innovation and economic growth, as these challenges also present potential for new jobs and territorial expansion.
- The European Commission, in collaboration with the JRC, has released a guide titled 'Navigating Opportunity Spaces' to assist decision-makers in transforming climate issues into opportunities.
- This guide offers a three-phase journey, starting with learning to identify and capitalize on innovation potential, followed by mapping and analyzing these opportunities, and concluding with learning from successful strategies in various EU territories.
- Co-creation is a crucial part of this process, with the guide facilitating discussions on self-assessment, challenges, gaps, and risks, resulting in actionable plans for transformation.
- The guide also features a visual mapping tool, designed to be flexible and modular, supporting both workshops and longer processes that incorporate co-creation and desk research at the local level.
- By utilizing this guide, one can take advantage of opportunities in a changing climate, with possibilities including strategies for climate change adaptation, innovation, job creation, and territorial growth.
