Systems Innovation for Healthy and Net-Zero Urban Futures

As a partner to the Pathfinder Initiative, we are working alongside the OECD Development Centre to bring a practical way for cities in developing countries to:

1. work beyond sectorial silos
2. understand the root causes of carbon lock-in and poor health outcomes, and
3. build strategies that can lead them to more sustainable, resilient and healthy futures.

Using collaborative systems thinking we are conducting focused work supporting Monterrey in Mexico. We are focusing on the links between transport, land-use and housing. Working with policy officials and key stakeholders our aim is to help in co-creating a vision of a healthy and sustainable future for the city and identifying high-leverage policies, actions, and alliances between government and other stakeholders to achieve it.

The project will embed discussions on transport, land-use and housing policy and investment into wider questions, supporting policymakers and other key stakeholders in revisiting urban development models, narratives for progress and the role of aspirations in advancing bold climate and health action.