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SUMMARY:Community Scale Engagement: Collective Action on Carbon - Professo
 r Douglas Crawford-Brown (Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridg
 e and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\; Director of Cambri
 dge Science and Policy Consulting\; Director of the Community Carbon Reduc
 tion Project)
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CONTACT:Julian Siebert
DESCRIPTION:The collective action problem is any instance where a problem 
 (such as reducing carbon emissions in Cambridge) requires the actions of m
 any individuals\, but where there are disincentives for any one individual
  to take the necessary actions in pursuit of a common community goal. The 
 most well known example is the Tragedy of the Commons. The example we will
  examine today is reducing carbon emissions from energy use in the 65\,000
 + buildings of Cambridge. To reach this goal\, we (meaning about 100 organ
 isations in Cambridge) began the Cambridge Retrofit programme in 2013. It 
 brought together nine categories of 'actors' in the community to coordinat
 e their aims and resources and actions so the carbon footprint of the city
  would be significantly reduced in support of the UK and global climate po
 licy goals. In this talk we will look at how Cambridge Retrofit was organi
 sed and consider strengths and weaknesses\, successes and failures\, of th
 e programme when confronting the collective action problem.\n\nRegister "h
 ere":https://wolfson-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/2016108827934/WN_j
 uSNr3E9SXSxOxnFctQogg\n
LOCATION:Wolfson College Zoom webinar
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