Creating City Portraits

In June 2020, the City of Copenhagen voted with a large majority to draw up a plan for the city to adopt the Doughnut as an economic model. Fanny Broholm, a member of the city council, explains how she and others built the strong cross-party coalition that led to such strong support for the initiative.

Downscaling the global concept of the Doughnut to turn it into a tool for transformative action in the City of Amsterdam

Tel Aviv, מחוז תל אביב, Israel

Co-founder of the TLV Doughnut Coalition and a Development economist with the World Bank Group. My main focus is on Social Protection and Active Labor Market Policies

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Aarhus, Danmark

Everyone is talking about the climate – even the politicians (especially them) – BUT what are they doing? And what are we all doing you - and me? That is the question right now! Many of us feel that too little is being done in the area of ​​climate changes. The world is chaotic. There are wars and energy crisis's. Social inequality is growing globally. And at the same time, climate changes are becoming clearer to everyone. Heat waves, droughts and storms ravage the continents. What do we stand for? Something must be done! We have chosen to fight for the climate and against inequality at the same time.  Kate Raworth has addressed this double sided fight so brilliant in her book 'Doughnut Economics' . This is why we call ourselves the Donut group, because we are inspired by her book 'Doughnut economics'.  We have a website aarhusdoughnut.dk   We come from different groups: ActionAid Denmark  -the Central City Council - Seniors without Borders - The Donut group in Mejlgade 53 - . Our vision and mission is that the City of Aarhus becomes a Donut city like Amsterdam and, not least, acts accordingly. We participate in the debates about urban development in Aarhus, both physical, environmental and social development. The Donut group in Aarhus has existed since 2019. We hold meetings with city council politicians, with the Copenhagen Donut and other climate groups in Aarhus.  In September 2021 we organized a digital and physical conference with presentations by Kate Raworth, Rob Shorter from DEAL and Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam Marieke Van Doorninck. To discuss the possibilities for Aarhus as a Donut city, a panel consisting of politicians nominated for the municipal elections 2021 were invited. Approx. 100 people attended physically and approx. 50 participated digitally. In November 2022 we organized a Doughnut Conference this time in the City Hall with representatives from the political parties in the City Council, Rob Shorter and representatives from the local businesses.  Again approx. 100 people attended the Conference and the workshops we had arranged. We are an open group where all aspects of the climate crisis can be discussed and we consider ourselves a forum where there is room to reverse current developments - and initiatives.

London Borough of Barnet and South West France

Composer, pianist and founder of ClimateKeys; an initiative to increase climate engagement via conversations with concert audiences - now transforming to a post-COVID model. Culture needs to be at the forefront of social change. I'm investigating using the ClimateKeys platform to engage local councils in Doughnut Economics as a device to transform away from locally-based carbon-intensive, harmful projects and replace them with projects in which the community can "thrive".

Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

I am interested in teaching and learning at the intersection of evolution, behavior, and sustainability science. Working through collaborations across scientific institutions, international non-profits, and local classrooms, our projects use human social behavior as a conceptual lens for interdisciplinary education. Scientific perspectives on the causes and consequences of our everyday experiences can be leveraged into deeper understandings of the challenges and solutions to sustainable development at every level of society. Projects at www.GlobalESD.org and www.EvoLeipzig.de

Auckland, New Zealand

Kia ora! I am privileged to have worked with Māori scientist Teina Boasa-Dean to translate the doughnut into Te Reo Māori to provide the context for NZ's nascent circular economy. Teina reimagined the doughnut from an indigenous perspective, with the environment as foundation. Together with Priti Ambani I co-founded www.projectmoonshot.city - a podcast and blog exploring the big questions around creating resilient and regenerative cities. In collaboration with the Planetary Accounting Network (PAN) and others, Project Moonshot is creating NZ's first Regenerative Action Lab, drawing from DEAL. I am Sustainability Lead at energy co Vector. I chair the NZ Circular Economy Advisory Board and the Battery Industry Group, which is creating a circular product stewardship scheme for large batteries.

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Regenerative economist, passionate activist and DEAL’s co-founder. Over the past 18 months I’ve been immersed in imagining, designing and bringing to life DEAL’s emergent strategy. It’s been an incredible journey of exploring what it means to turn a radical idea into transformative action and bringing this community together is our best attempt to make it happen - I can't wait to see what we can do together. I am also leading the early days of DEAL’s work with Business & Enterprise. I'm really excited to co-create tools that can help organisations transform themselves in order to help humanity move towards the doughnut and to get inspired from those who are already doing it. Contact me by going to the DEAL Contact Form and selecting 'Business & Enterprise'. I’d love to hear from you!