Creative Climate Futures is a two-year project to support local climate action in Glasgow, running from April 2023 to March 2025. The project is led by is led by Sniffer, working with Creative Carbon Scotland, Community Land Scotland, Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector, the Scottish Communities Climate Action Network and Glasgow City Council.
The project is working with organisations and local residents in two “pioneer” neighbourhoods in Glasgow – Easterhouse, and Gorbals – to understand what climate change means locally, to imagine what climate ready futures might look like, and to speed up local action to make these a reality. The pioneer neighbourhoods are two of the city’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change – where flooding and overheating are more likely, and where underlying social and economic inequalities might make it harder for communities to respond to these impacts.
Organisations from across Glasgow can also get involved with the project through a city-wide learning, training and capacity sharing programme, starting in Autumn 2024.
The Creative Climate Futures team will work with Climate Ready Clyde to share project learning, generate ideas and collaborate to strengthen Climate Ready Clyde’s community programme and aim to scale up climate action to a more regional scale. The project supports delivery of two of the Flagship Actions of the Adaptation Strategy and Action Plan:
- Flagship Action Two: Communities shaping climate ready places
- Flagship Action Three: Increasing community agency in adaptation processes through culture and creative practice
Creative Climate Futures is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The funding has been awarded through Glasgow City Council’s Communities and Place Fund.
