What is CRISP about

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Ioannina’s Climate Neutral Zones form an innovative experiment for running neighbourhood-scale experiments to move towards the City’s vision of climate neutrality by 2030. The zoning approach aims to address small-scale challenges related to creating a sense of climate security for citizens and visitors.

 

The Ioannina’s Climate Neutral Zones face the challenge of being fairly distributed within the urban web in terms of the respective needs and levels of climate issues in different areas. Therefore, there is a paramount need for a two-level dialogue with stakeholders that will help the city understand the evolving expectations. On the first level, civil society, along with local businesses and communities, needs to identify baseline conditions and co-create a common vision for their neighbourhoods. On the second level, scientific bodies such as the Technical Chamber and the Academia need to provide technical assistance in addressing the challenges identified in the baseline analysis.

 

The Ioannina’s Climate Neutral Zones can be seen as transition areas building on a participatory and technical roadmap. Scaling up of the model in the city and other EU cities will face barriers, mainly coming from a lack of citizen’s trust in local authorities and innovation, funding, and policy gaps.