Why is NESTA running the Big Green Challenge?
NESTA is running the Big Green Challenge because we recognised that, while action within communities was becoming more recognised as crucial to tackling climate change, there wasn’t much in place to support communities to do this through their own ideas. Innovation programmes for climate change have tended to focus on developing highly technical or scientific, and often commercial solutions. Through the Big Green Challenge NESTA is aiming to learn about: • How much potential there is for community-led solutions to tackling climate change, • Understand how these solutions work and what the barriers to them working might be, and about • The types of conditions that can work best to enable community-led solutions to grow and be increasingly successful. The Big Green Challenge is part of NESTA’s Public Services Innovation Lab, which is testing new ways to deliver better services for less.
