Professor Valérie Masson-Delmotte:

There is huge potential for thinking differently and having spaces of innovation and practical research which include people from academic and research centres working together with farm practitioners. That is very important for the idea of ownership and to create a bridge between practitioners' knowledge, which is broad, and academic knowledge. There are multiple examples of this, albeit farming is a very good one. It is the same for urban innovation. One also needs people with practitioner knowledge within cities to work with people in the academic sector to think together about pathways to change the urban system. It is very similar in a way. One needs practical spaces for that work and transparency on the lessons learned from experimentation that can inspire others.