SSN Regional Partnerships for the Future – Accelerating Climate Action

SPL Director Barbara Morton joined almost 100 SSN members and associates at the ECCI, Edinburgh to engage in discussions on partnerships and collaborative working as effective tools to scale up action, trigger significant investment and stimulate low carbon growth across Scotland. 

Barbara was particularly pleased to see Professor Andy Gouldson give the keynote presentation, and to be able to catch up with him after so many years.

Other key highlights from the event included:

• Transformation through collaboration is key, to overcome multifaceted, complex, cross cutting challenges, and applying multidimensional solutions through cross exchange and shared learning.
• Partnerships can build capitals and capacities (social, financial, political, intellectual), can resolve policy tensions and can also bring complexity - they require attention and leadership.
• Alignment – sharing capacity and resources, can bring greater buy-in and mainstreaming, to scale up action at pace and deliver significant emission savings.
• Greater accountability, monitoring and feedback should give us an evidence base which enables better, fairer decisions and impact.

​As a result of discussions on the day, SSN have set up thematic Action Groups to drive further strategic exchange and learning among members. The Action Groups will be member derived and member driven, solutions oriented, with clear objectives, limited to a six-month lifespan and review, and guided by the SSN Secretariat. To become involved in the Action Groups, contact Catherine Pearce. 

Presentations from the day are available here.