The failure to deliver inclusive and sustainable adaptation contributes to a collective inability to mobilise the power of creative community vision . Urban design plays a central role to support creative adaptation strategies . Much adaptation action repeats previous experiences. However, the potential for building resilience to deliver adaptation, especially transformative adaptation, requires an articulation of collective visions of the future and the imagination of new or alternative urban futures , including through design and deliberate engagement with cultural artefacts, technologies and performances . Social movements can be powerful sources of such alternative visions of the future, as exemplified by recent Youth Climate Strikes and Extinction Rebellion . Community protest such as Youth Climate Strikes have influenced urban climate policy agendas including the declaration of climate emergency in municipalities worldwide, fostering a new debate on climate change, although their impact on local policy is ambiguous . Social movements on climate mitigation, such as the Transition Movement and Transition Towns , and school strikes may serve as an example for mobilisations more specifically about climate adaptation and the way new, networked, grassroots citizen activism and community organisations can encourage urban institutional change . Other strategies such as cultural production and exhibitions may also have an impact .
IPCC
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
IPCC Report