Figure 23.2: The number of initiatives covered in a sample of platforms that feature bottom-up sustainability initiatives (see Annex 23-1 for a brief description of the platforms)
Figure 23.3: The SDGs represented proportionally by how they are covered by the selected bottom-up sustainability initiative platforms. Some initiatives are narrower in scope and strictly relate to one, two or three SDGs, while others are diverse and capture a wider range of SDGs (four or more) (see Annex 23-1 for a brief description of the initiative platforms)
Multiple SDGs (4+)
11%
SDG 17 14%
SDG 15 7%
SDG 14 7%
SDG 13 25%
SDG 2
4% 23.9.2 Participatory processes
SDG 6 7%
SDG 7 7%
4%
SDG 11 SDG 8
7%
SDG 12 7%
While Section 23.10 outlines the array of platforms that are already collecting initiatives with the potential to help meet the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this section presents results from the participatory workshops and Climate CoLab crowdsourcing that further bring to light the diversity of solutions found globally. These initiatives were identified as concrete examples of typical solutions in the measure categories outlined in Chapter 22. They also challenge some of the assumptions of how change happens within top-down models, and highlight the interrelated trends of SDGs, their potential synergies, and the role of diverse actors in achieving the 2030 Agenda – while the top-down models help focus on trade-offs. This section first provides an overview of trends found across all workshop seeds and Climate CoLab proposals before breaking down the results by the four clusters studied in Chapter 22. In addition, a fifth cluster of measure/intervention categories was created based on the solutions found in the bottom-up work that did not neatly fit within those four existing clusters – these are discussed more fully in Section 23.10. The assessment demonstrates the potential of bottom-up initiatives to aid policymakers and top-down analyses, but, due to the limited sample size it does not present a comprehensive overview of all on-the-ground solutions globally.
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