The Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation (GALLANT) project is using Glasgow as a test bed for sustainable solutions to climate challenges throughout the city. While working to address key local environmental problems, the programme collaborates closely with communities and is considering the co-benefits and trade-offs for public health, wellbeing, and the economy.

GALLANT is helping develop solutions which address flood risk related to tidal changes, sea level rise, and increased water from extreme weather events. GALLANT aims to transform land use along the River Clyde by identifying sites for urban corridor parks for flood water storage, while also improving areas along the Clyde for wildlife and people.

The project is also restoring and connecting habitats across Glasgow to halt biodiversity loss, trialling new ways of regenerating derelict and polluted land through technology that mineralises greenhouse gases and traps organic pollutants into building materials for the future, supporting active travel and inclusive mobility, and developing sustainable low carbon energy solutions at the community scale that empower local people as active energy citizens to co-create clean energy demand.