What urban rights should guide a just response to climate change?
This edition of the Universal Declaration of Urban Rights, developed within the European project JUST4CARE , brings together communities in Madrid, Budapest, Zagreb and Çankaya to collectively explore the rights, principles and responsibilities needed for just urban climate adaptation.
Through four Local Parliamentary Cycles, we will connect everyday experiences of heat, water, housing, public space and care with community knowledge, technical expertise and institutional action. Each cycle combines local listening activities with two Urban Parliament sessions, bringing together residents, community organisations, experts and people involved in making and implementing decisions.
The first Parliament will explore local experiences, identify shared concerns and prioritise emerging rights. The second will turn these findings into collectively deliberated proposals, safeguards and responsibilities, culminating in a Local Declaration of Urban Rights for Climate Resilience.
The four Local Declarations, together with the Voices and evidence that support them, will then converge in a Final Synthesis Parliament. This collective process will inform the European Declaration of Urban Rights for Climate Resilience, identifying shared principles while preserving context-specific rights, emerging proposals and unresolved disagreements.
The edition connects Urban Rights’ open, collaborative approach to democratic rights-making with the five JUST4CARE lenses: Justice 4 Care, Knowledge 4 Care, Governance 4 Care, Cities 4 Care, and Policies 4 Care.
Four cities, four local processes, one European Declaration: turning everyday experiences into collective knowledge, emerging urban rights and proposals for just climate adaptation.
