Lego Land Use at the ClimateXChange Climate Horizon 2040 Conference

Anna Sellars and Lee-Ann Sutherland from the LUNZ Hub Scotland team took the Lego land use game to ClimateXChange’s Climate Horizon 2040 conference in Edinburgh on the 4 th Feb, running an interactive workshop to discuss net zero land use scenarios. 

The game was designed by Star Molteno and Helena Connors at Eunomia Consulting, to provide a structured but creative means of facilitating discussions to explore options for land use scenarios at a national scale, and has previously been used at workshops in England and Northern Ireland. 

The session provoked discussions of trade-offs, limitations and priorities in developing land use scenarios to net zero targets in the 2030s and 40s, considering levels of certainty and evidence in economic, technical and social innovation, and where these could be furthered via research to accelerate decision making. Delving into what might constitute sustainable land uses spoke to broader conversations at the event, about how to design and implement effective policies which meet the needs of the many sectors that are implicated in how land is utilised within Scotland.

Click here to read the full workshop report.