Climate walk

Here are the steps you need to take to get started:

• Select the good practices to showcase in the walk based on your target group’s age, interest and how they may be relevant to their daily lives. 
• Try to involve partners. Your stops could include local initiatives such as a packaging-free store, a community garden, or a social bike repair shop. Invite them to participate and to quickly share what they do. Maybe they have something for your visitors to taste, a space for a nice break or an activity to try? These partnerships will also increase the impact of your walk. 
• Define your tour itinerary considering the age and physical condition of your participants: stairs may be a barrier; young children or older people will need more time to move from one stop to the other; offer sitting possibilities, ideally sheltered from the sun, wind or rain; a stopping point of interest in the walk gives participants the opportunity to rest. 
• Make it fun and inclusive for all. Interact as much as possible and keep an empathic and non-judgmental mindset. If your group is very diverse, try to have something fun/engaging for everyone (e.g. kids, parents, grandparents). 
• Follow the planned itinerary and keep the group together but leave some flexibility in your planning to ensure time for questions and interaction. 
• Highlight the positives while emphasising the need for more efforts. Make sure that in the course of your walk there is a good balance between examples of best practice and those showcasing the need for improvement. In this way you will highlight the positives while emphasising the need for more efforts.  
• The last stop of the walk could be a group activity, such as a game, adjusted to the target group. For example, the group could play: 
  • ‘Future us’ where each participant is asked to think of and present how the visited environment could look in the future; 
  • ‘Object theatre’ where each participant should find and present an object that summarises the Climate Walk and sights visited. 

• Dresden, Germany - The walking tour of climate friendly practices in the city of Dresden, offered in the context of the Stadt Wandeln project, stops at a workshop where you can make things yourself, a free shop where you can donate old items in good condition that you no longer need, a multi-generation garden that counteracts loneliness, among other interesting places.   

• Graz, Austria - The walking tour of climate friendly practices in the city of Graz offered by Climate Alliance and Energy Agency Styria, explores the old town in a slightly unusual way: participants go looking for clues, solutions, ideas and measures in the areas of climate protection, consumption, mobility, energy, housing and climate change adaptation.

• Linz, Austria - The KlimaAlps Interreg project in Upper Austria (Linz) developed a climate trail for all the senses and for different educational levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced.

"By engaging in discussions and outdoor activities together, participants form connections and a sense of unity around these important issues."

Csaba Borboly, Romania, President of Harghita County Council and Member of the European Committee of the Regions 

• Encourage participants to take pictures during the walk, share them on social media and tag #EUClimatePact and #MyWorldOurPlanet. 
• Fill in the form to support further promotion, peer-learning and replication. 

• Encourage participants to join the citizen/community initiatives you showcased in the walk. 
• Invite participants to use UN Act Now – AWorld app to reduce their carbon footprint through daily activities such as walking and cycling or reducing food waste. 
• Explore other Climate Pact tools to engage with their networks and communities. 

• Activity registration
• Activity results and take-aways submission
• Consent form for image use