WP2's main objective was to "Explain the translation of social, technological, and institutional innovation across locations concerning climate change policies that travel from one location to another."

WP2 had two main findings. First, WP2 engaged with a distinctly urban perspective on urban innovation and societal transitions. For example, the project developed a framework to embed transition frameworks in urban environments (output 2.1 and 2.9) also paying special attention to the shifts in urban areas and the new requirements for understanding compound urban crises (output 2.4), the health challenges motivated by the pandemic (output 2.8) and the new demands for justice in transitions coming from the bottom up (output 2.10).

On the other hand, the work within WP2 also helped to challenge existing ideas about the circulation of knowledge in urban policy and the need to open knowledge to a wide range of subaltern knowledges (output 2.7). When the team explored the case of China, it found the need for an alternative perspective on transitions that would reflect the sociological particularities of 'the Middle Kingdom' (Output 2.3). The team developed a 'correlative epistemology' based on social sciences theories from China (Output 2.2 and output 2.6).