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6 Chapter 1 - Introduction(even when it appeared appropriate to the researchers). We think that it is important that theanalysis preserves this tension (i.e. showing links with existing frameworks but also highlightingwhere there is a distinctive approach, focus or interpretation) in order to bring both discussionsabout the contribution of community organisations within the terms of mainstream debates and toensure that any distinctive orientations are not lost and that community organisations can beengaged with in ways that make sense to them.1.7 Outline of the ReportChapter 2, The Role of the 3 rd Sector in Low Carbon Innovation reviews the literature in this field andoutlines the findings of other studies. Chapter 3, Mapping the Challengers, discusses the nature ofthe sector and the type of groups that applied to the Big Green Challenge. In Chapter 4, The BigGreen Challenge and UK Climate Change Policy, the climate change goals are discussed in relation toschemas derived from the policy literature.Chapters 5 and 6 respectively look at the types of innovation goals and processes used in theproposals. Chapter 7, Categorising the Challengers’ Proposals, develops a different form of moreintegrative analysis. It groups proposals in terms of the focal point for working with a community inrelation to climate change mitigation. In aggregate it provides a novel classification of the types ofactivities the community sector is undertaking in relation to this issue. Within these proposal typesthe report discusses the different types of groups involved and the approaches (goals and processes)being suggested. Chapter 8, Third Sector Capabilities with Value for Low Carbon Innovation, returnsto the sample as a whole and to the characteristics of the sector and its approaches to communityinnovation to assess where proposals were building on these in distinctive ways in relation toclimate change mitigation. Throughout these Chapters we highlight specific proposals from the fullAppleby Ltd July 2009