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Background 

While the need to act on climate change is well known, too little is done, particularly when it comes to building needed capacities. Often training courses or courses focus on technology or theoretical knowledge, whereas the actual gap is in the general understanding and so-called soft skills like communication, co-development, or joint decision-making.

This session presented a range of experts from research and implementation, who shared their success stories on socially inclusive climate action. The focus was on their expertise capacity building on the so-called soft skills for successful and motivated climate action, such as awareness, communication, visioning, leadership, and collaboration. These skills are often overlooked but are essential pathways for triggering transformative change.

Objectives

• To share practical insights on co-creation processes in capacity building and tools development for crafting soft skills on urban climate action and social justice.
• To illustrate with success stories how implementing capacity building for climate action and social justice in different contexts is a means to exchange knowledge, share expertise, and trigger transformative urban change.
• To raise awareness on existing initiatives and capacities to broaden networks and share materials.

Format & Structure

Outcomes

The session had three key outputs:

1. Raising awareness on the needs and make known what solutions already exist to transform cities towards sustainability,
2. Discuss and improve them together during the session, and
3. Make them available for use as open-source materials afterwards.

The first two outputs were achieved during the session, the third output was made available after finalizing materials and including feedback collected during the session.