Promoting Urban Net Zero Transitions Through Multi-Level Governance: The Intermediary Role of Systemic Collaborative Platforms
Authors: Jaime Moreno-Serna, Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro, Wendy M. Purcell, Olga Kordas, Julio Lumbreras, Carlos Mataix, Miguel Soberón and John D. Spenglerlos
In the fields of partnership research and social innovation, demand is growing for evidence on multilevel collaborative governance structures that can support large-scale transformation processes, especially in the context of climate-neutral cities. This article conceptualizes a new type of intermediary actor: Systemic Collaborative Platforms. Using as an example a multi-stakeholder agreement designed to develop and implement Madrid’s Climate Neutral Roadmap, it highlights the main characteristics of a Systemic Collaborative Platform, which include a focus on multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral collaboration for public policy development, operating at both the systemic and city scale, with a strong link to a key actor within this regime: the Madrid City Council.
The study reveals how a Systemic Collaboration Platform can facilitate the articulation of a shared mandate among a city’s stakeholders and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a climate transition by engaging, aligning and managing a broad and diverse organizational ecosystem through distributed facilitation, collaborative leadership and continuous learning.
Authors: Jaime Moreno-Serna, Teresa Sánchez-Chaparro, Wendy M. Purcell, Olga Kordas, Julio Lumbreras, Carlos Mataix, Miguel Soberón and John D. Spenglerlos
In the fields of partnership research and social innovation, demand is growing for evidence on multilevel collaborative governance structures that can support large-scale transformation processes, especially in the context of climate-neutral cities. This article conceptualizes a new type of intermediary actor: Systemic Collaborative Platforms. Using as an example a multi-stakeholder agreement designed to develop and implement Madrid’s Climate Neutral Roadmap, it highlights the main characteristics of a Systemic Collaborative Platform, which include a focus on multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral collaboration for public policy development, operating at both the systemic and city scale, with a strong link to a key actor within this regime: the Madrid City Council.
The study reveals how a Systemic Collaboration Platform can facilitate the articulation of a shared mandate among a city’s stakeholders and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of a climate transition by engaging, aligning and managing a broad and diverse organizational ecosystem through distributed facilitation, collaborative leadership and continuous learning.
