Designing and leading collaborative urban climate governance: Comparative experiences of co‐creation from Copenhagen and Oslo

Abstract This article has a twofold aim. First, inspired by collaborative governance theory, the article develops an analytical framework built around three ideal co‐creation strategies utilized by city governments for building capacity and addressing urban climate solutions. Second, this co‐creation framework is applied to a comparative case study of climate governance in two climate‐ambitious Scandinavian cities, Copenhagen and Oslo, to illustrate the role of co‐creation as an approach and tool for urban climate governance. The comparative analysis reveals how the two cities navigate differently within a polycentric ecosystem of actors depending on a variety of contextual factors and whether climate responses are geared mainly towards assembling and aligning public, private business or citizen actors, respectively, for collaborative efforts. The findings…