Project presentation
Scientific literature and field experience show that climate change adaptation measures can generate or exacerbate inequalities in various ways. Among these are: unequal distribution of the effects of these measures (distributive justice); disparate opportunities, capacities and means to participate (procedural justice); incomplete and unequal recognition of a wide range of knowledge, experiences and different forms of oppression and discrimination.
With this project, the Labo Équité Climat team aims to answer the following questions:
- What are the knowledge gaps concerning the inequalities produced or exacerbated by adaptation measures, and what are the most pressing actions for mobilizing existing knowledge in Quebec?
- What are some of the governance processes and adaptation practices for identifying and recognizing inequalities and, conversely, for exacerbating them?
- What forms of tools and experience accounts might increase our project participants’ ability to identify and recognize these processes and phenomena, and to take them as a cue for action?
- How might an open innovation approach of the “living laboratory” type contribute to mobilize actors and knowledge towards achieving equity in climate change adaptation?
Labo Équité Climat proposes to bring together, in a living laboratory approach, a wide range of knowledge and experiences that can catalyze the co-production of a toolkit that promotes equity in climate change adaptation.
Our mission is to:
- Support the production and dissemination of accounts of people and communities affected by inequity in adaptation as well as of approaches that promote equity.
- Produce quick facts (infographics, illustrated written summaries) on the links between adaptation and inequalities, using case studies and literature reviews.
- Co-construct tools together with adaptation players.
- Organize workshops in different environments to encourage learning.
- Hold a Living Lab Forum at the end of the project (2027).
