Work by the Young Foundation with Manchester City Council on the Local Wellbeing Project ("Neighbourliness + Empowerment = Wellbeing - is there a formula for happy communities?"), suggests that community empowerment enhances wellbeing and mutual respect and offers the best route to tackling complex social issues locally.The work implies that the best way to explore the benefits of climate change action is to enable and allow individual communities of geography and interest to explore responses to the challenge of lower carbon lifestyles in their own specific contexts and ways - within the context of clear facts and principles about what might be possible and necessary.

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