Develop Defined
How might founders and operators better incorporate human design thinking into their initial prototype delivery and testing to positively impact those most impacted by the climate crisis?
The CTSSR framework equips climate technology founders, teams, operators, investors, practitioners, and potential partners with a blueprint for evaluating environmental equity and justice in the context of a broader lifecycle assessment defined through 4 key stages of growth. This Develop stage builds on the foundational knowledge in the initial stage’s module and walks through the practices and strategies to test a minimum viable product’s positive impact of those most impacted by the climate crisis.
Users of this stage of the tool will be able to finetuning initial and existing indicators, test them and assess how data collection ican be meaningfully integrated into the insights of those most impacted by climate change.
Level Readiness Steps:
Basic Principles Observed: The stage where systems science (environmental justice, climate equity, and literacy) research begins. The principles underlying an incumbent industry and technology as well as those for potential climate innovation are observed and reported.
Systems Science Concept Formulated: Preliminary data related to the communities historically most impacted by previous inputs and outputs. A concept of environmental justice science begins to translate into basic principles applied to R&D, particularly around harm and benefits
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Recommended Completion Time
15 - 20 hours
Materials for Consideration
Prototyping and Testing Plan
Initial Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Design for Assembly
Risk and Compliance Analysis
*Vulnerable Population Scan Data Sets (provided in modules)
Participants
Founding team member
Head of Product
Partnerships Lead
Overview
Principles Observed
Guiding Questions Methodology and Data
Exercises
Monitoring & Evaluation Checklist
