ANNUAL CONGRESS 2025

Twin Tools of the Global to Local to Global Geodesign for Climate Change Mitigation Project

Not scheduled

20m

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

Oral SS 04 | Planning for Twin Transition in Regional and Urban Systems

Speaker

Tijana Dabovic (University of Belgrade Faculty of Geography)

Description

Climate change caused by increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration poses a significant threat to life on Earth. Climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience are identified as narrowly connected concepts and actions needed to address this threat. However, the window for addressing climate change is shrinking as time is passing and needed action is lacking. If the global community fails to mitigate climate change in the next decades, climate adaptation and the resilience of local communities will become increasingly difficult.
In the past year, team of the International Geodesign Collaboration (IGC) Global to Local to Global (GLG) Climate Change Mitigation Project: Carl Steinitz, Harvard University and UCL, Pedro Arsenio, University of Lisbon, Michele Campagna, University of Cagliari and Tijana Dabovic, University of Belgrade developed an integrated geodesign framework for spatially and temporally designing and implementing climate projects. The GLG strategy explicitly focuses on creating a scalable workflow compatible across diverse jurisdictions, geographic scales, and time frames towards reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration by 2050. It combines global perspectives and science with national, regional and local insights and feasibility, facilitated by digital technologies, primarily ArcGIS Online Organisation (IGC GLG portal through which users can create, manage, and share maps, apps, and data), ArcGIS Pro (software with innovative tools for managing spatial data and performing advanced mapping analytics), and Geodesignhub (geodesign digital collaboration and negotiation platform).
The GLG workflow is anchored in the GLG list of climate projects. Selected after a literature review, a total of 117 global climate projects contributing to sequestration/biodiversity and ecosystems enhancement and/or emissions reductions are organised in 8 systems/sectors – Oceans, Water, Forests and Grasslands, Agriculture, Settlements, Transport, Industry and Energy. All projects are globally assigned to expert maps and AI-assessed for their costs and benefits in reducing GHG emissions. Using the Stainitz's (2012) geodesign framework and digital tools and data, local teams can select and negotiate locally relevant climate projects considering the past carbon emissions and sinks, societal, economic, and political readiness for climate mitigation, as well as to 2050 projections of their climate regions, LULCs, and ecosystem changes. The local geodesign/plan for climate change mitigation is presented in the Gantt chart and a map. In turn, all collected local geodesigns of climate change mitigation are digitally processed and used for making the Global design and tested against global optimisation models. These serve to identify the gaps between capable, suitable, and feasible scenarios of the Global to Local to Global climate change mitigation by 2050.
The IGC GLG team will make these resources freely accessible, enabling nations and communities to explore different spatio-temporal scenarios and geodesign and implement effective climate strategies globally and locally.

References

International Geodesign Collaboration Global to Local to Global ArcGIS Online Organisation, 2024 - https://igcglg.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html
Steinitz, Carl, 2012. A Framework for Geodesign: Changing Geography by Design. ESRI Press.