Place Standard Tool with a Climate Lens

Summary

The Place Standard with a Climate Lens has been developed to help people understand how climate change might play out in a local area and support them to design their future place with climate in mind.

It builds on the core Place Standard tool and is designed to support a joined up, collaborative, and participative approach to climate action within a place. The project has been jointly led and delivered by Sniffer, Sustainable Scotland Network and Architecture & Design Scotland, together with and funded by Public Health Scotland and Scottish Government.

The Climate Lens includes a suite of tools for facilitators and organisers of Place Standard sessions, including:

• extra guidance and questions in the main Place Standard tool guidance
• a climate change prompt document for facilitators,
• a glossary of terms,
• support videos,
• online and in person-tools to help facilitators host effective climate-focussed sessions 

Place Standard with a Climate Lens: co-creating local climate solutions

The Place Standard with a Climate Lens provides step-by-step support on how to to develop productive conversations focussed on the important relationship between climate and place. The Climate Lens follows the same, easy to use approach as the core Place Standard tool. Adding the Climate Lens to Place Standard sessions will help to consider how big trends such as climate change and decarbonisation might affect a place. 

Additional Climate Lens resources

A range of Climate Lens resources – including presentation slides, online whiteboard templates, and printouts – are available to help you get started. Feel free to adapt them to suit the needs of your own Place Standard with a Climate lens assessment or to develop your own supporting resources.