Programme
Brussels Case
- Thomas Dawance, chargé de projet au sein du Community Land Trust de Bruxelles. The Community Land Trust: Building the city on common land The Community Land Trust (CLT) is an American model of land management created at the end of the 1960s. It allows low-income households to own property and local services to develop in working-class neighborhoods. The model proposes an original governance which aims at the empowerment of involved households and perhaps outlines an urbanism of the commons. The Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB) is the first of its kind in continental Europe. It has been supported by the Brussels-Capital Region since the end of 2012. 7 projects (approximately 120 housing units) are under development. The CLTB is part of a European Interreg programme called “SHICC” with the cities of Lille, London and Ghent. In this context, it helps disseminate the model at European level. The originality of the CLT results from several mechanisms: land ownership by the community and the division between landscape and built environment, an anti-speculative resale formula allowing accessibility of housing from generation to generation, a three-party governance ensuring equal representativeness between public power, owner-occupier and civil society. Likewise, the Brussels model is shaking up the traditional methods of producing social housing by involving future purchasing households in participatory procedures upstream of the public order.
Geneva Case
- Frédéric Josselin, Office of urbanism – Consultation and communication service, Planning, Housing and Energy Department (DALE) in the State of Geneva. Geneva and governance at a time of ecological transition
Keynote speech
- Rémi Baudouï, political scientist, professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of GenevaPlayers, governance, ecological transition
The debate on global warming that troubles the world can be explained in part by the divergence of opinion about the means needed to deal with it. The conflict between Claude Allègre, former Minister of National and Higher Education, and the IPCC in 2010-2011 illustrates a climate skepticism that makes up for the inaction of elected officials. However, the progress of knowledge on large-scale climatic phenomena, the convergence of scientific studies, the first climatic disasters of unequaled magnitude and the continuous alerts of the IPCC have gradually demonstrated the unthinkable anthropogenic threat on a planetary scale due to the massive production of greenhouse gases. Although it has emerged as a political priority, the fight against global warming nevertheless faces insurmountable challenges both in terms of actions to be promoted to curb it, and political measures and inter-governmental agreements to be validated. Also, the issue of public action, initially thought of as anticipation, has gradually over the years turned into adaptation to climate change. This is the path that national players have taken today, as can be seen by the climate change adaptation strategy put in place by the Federal Council in Switzerland, or the Grenelle de l’Environnement in France, among others.The question is now about city-level implementation of public policies intended to take on the ecological transition. While the desire to act may be sincere, many authors recognise the limitations of action. What are the obstacles and barriers that need to be overcome today in order to engage in ecological transition policies? How to reform decision-making processes in this area? How to make them coincide with general interest? How to rebuild an ecological global-sectoral relation through town planning on the basis of local environmental democracy?
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