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- Waste Management
- Concrete solutions
The Climate’s Route
- Climate crisis
- Social Mobilisation
- Partecipation
- Intersectionality
| Málaga, Barcelona and Madrid, Spain | |
| Social Climate - Social Innovation for Climate Action | |
| Budget: It requires only a low initial investment, incurs in low operational costs (remuneration of tour guides and collaborators, knowledge updates, digital marketing and portfolio diversification) | |
| http://rutaclima.city/#rutas |
Physical & conceptual itineraries (tours, gymkhanas and other educational or recreational activities) across territories, around the climate emergency, to see the impacts, understand the causes and connections, and experience the solutions in terms of social mobilization, direct democracy, local wellbeing economies, nature-based solutions, critical thinking, regenerative cultures and arts. It is aimed at residents and tourists that wish to delve deeper into the issue, as well as schools and academic institution, and companies and professionals.
At the end of every tour, they draw the lessons learned, and reflect on the best strategies and concrete actions, both at individual and collective levels, to be carried out “back home”. That’s why they talk about local “chapters” instead of “routes” in their own terminology: each route is understood as a chapter of a whole project, which is built little by little as new destinations join the network and offer new routes (thus creating new chapters).
The development of the Malaga chapter as well as the seed of the network has relied exclusively on the internal resources of its 3 co-founding organizations (Social Climate, Libero Association, and Explora Malaga), knowledge support and dissemination from key partners (IUCN Med, Local Futures, 1 Million Women, Spain’s Nature-based Solutions Cluster, Sustainability Observatory University of Malaga, Malaga City Council, Bioazul, Ruedas Redondas, Aula del Mar, FARO Innovation, and various urban gardens, socio-cultural centers, neighborhood associations, local climate movement groups, etc.), and the direct revenue generated by the project itself, all thanks to the suitable model described before.
This is a long-term project (acting as a solutions multiplier) that is contributing to accelerate the fair transformation to a post-carbon and equitable economy by promoting existing local solutions and transferring them to other locations for replication.
Main objectives
- Inform about the effects, causes and solutions of the climate emergency and inspire collective action for the climate and social justice.
- Catalyze an economy that generates wellbeing, equity and sovereignty.
- Demonstrate that a different type of tourism is possible and necessary by becoming a good practice example (cooperative philosophy and local economy).