Co-designing Indicators for Turin’s Just Green Transition: The case of GreenFORCE Summer School

The case of GreenFORCE Summer School

Abstract

The European Union’s Just Green Transitions are expected to pave just, fair, and inclusive pathways leading to climate-neutrality by 2050. The European Commission and the Member States have prepared their territorial just transition plans progressing the European Green Deal and operationalizing their dual transitions (European Commission, 2021).

Subsequently, Turin together with Piemonte Region, has been preparing its Climate Change Adaptation Plan (Municipality of Turin, 2018) and developing several Green Local Visions to achieve the climate-neutrality strategies of 2050 in accordance with the European Green Deal (European Commission, 2019). One issue is how to implement and monitor the progress of such transitions ensuring a just outcome for every person and region (European Commission, 2019).

This contribution discusses what could be the possible indicators to potentially measure the advancement of the so-called Just Green Transitions. It is partially elaborated on the results achieved by an intensive summer school organized on the topic in Turin, 2023. Through a co-design process involving a wide range of expertise and disciplines, including spatial governance and territorial systems (Berisha, et al, 2021), territorial resilience, GIS, and earth observation satellite systems, cost-benefit analysis and socio-economic targets, a set of initial indicators have been explored for measuring the progress of the transition in the city Turin.

Accordingly, this contribution aims to: (i) discuss a set of qualitative and quantitative indicators for advancing the Just Green Transitions in general and in Turin, particularly (ii) discuss which indicators could cover the social, spatial, and environmental justice when it comes to the localization in Turin.