Transcript Cities & Climate Change

East Coast Regional Consultation
on Climate Change Adaptation
Rajahmundry, AP, August 26-27, 2013
Session V: Cities & Climate Change
Soumya Chaturvedula, Regional Manager,
ICLEI SA
Cities & Climate Change – The AdaptCap
Approach
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ICLEI South Asia’s work with cities and climate
 A membership organization of local governments and their associations
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dedicated to a sustainable urban environment
1200+ members from 6 continents & 70 countries, represents 571 million
people
Mission - To build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to
achieve tangible improvements in global sustainability with special focus on
environmental conditions through cumulative local actions
 Presently supporting more than 33 Indian cities on sustainability, climate
change, energy efficiency, renewable energy
 Implementing projects with funding support from GIZ, EU, USAID, BHC and
others
 Climate, Water, Waste, Policy, Energy, Transport Planning, Environment,
Sustainability…
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Overview of Projects - Adaptation & Mitigation
 Roadmap of South Asian Cities and Local Government for the Post 2012
global climate agreement and actions
 Integrating urban climate guidelines through clean technologies (RE & EE) at
the state and city level to build sustainable low carbon cities
 Urban Climate Project
 Solar Cities Programme
 Asian Cities Adapt
 Quantification of mitigation interventions of the Delhi City
 Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCRN)
 Promoting Low Emission Urban Development Strategies in Emerging Economy
Countries (Urban LEDS)
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 Earth Hour City Challenge
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Community Level
City Level
AdaptCap – The Urban Approach
Engagement
City level climate change
research and needs
assessment
Identification of vulnerable
areas & Community
vulnerability and needs
assessment
• Introduce the project
• Formal consent through MoU
• Formation of a City Task Force &
Stakeholder Group
• Engaging stakeholders
Developing a detailed city profile and collation of
data which would support further processes
• To identify the most vulnerable areas of the city
• To carry out a community needs and vulnerability
assessment in these areas
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Engagement
• Preliminary meetings with key administrative, technical and political
personnel
• Signing of MoUs
• Formation of City Task Force (CTF), Stakeholder Group (SG)
• Identification of a Nodal Person
• Initial CTF meeting
• 1st Shared Learning Dialogue
Shared learning is an approach to participatory planning and problem
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solving in complex situations for which mutual learning is a defining
feature in determining a positive outcome of the engagement
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City level climate change research, needs &
vulnerability assessment
• Developing a city profile
• Overview of existing policies/plans/projects
• Scientific evidence based on V&NA, area specific climate reports /
studies
• CTF meeting with Zonal Councilors
• Community-based needs and vulnerability assessment
• Local Adaptation & Mitigation Guides
• 2nd Shared Learning Dialogue
• Cities to implement actions in priority areas
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Climate proofing cities – Opportunities
 Cities matter because they are large economies in themselves
 How cities grow and meet energy demand is critical to climate change
 Half of the world’s population lives in cities, 70% in 2050
 Urban population is expected to double by 2030; global built-up area is
expected to triple during the same period
 Urban density and spatial organization influence energy consumption,
especially in transportation and building systems…
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GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS PER SECTOR
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Climate proofing cities – Challenges
 Introducing the climate angle
– Policy level directive
– Conflicting priorities
– Understanding at the local level
 Integrating/Mainstreaming CC
– Looking at local policy & implementation through a climate lense as part of the
BAU scenario
 Monitoring Impacts
– Integrating monitoring frameworks into contracts
– Need for strong & appropriate reporting mechanisms and capacity in ULBs to
assess impacts
 Evaluating Outcomes
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– Assessment of reporting – comparing proposed outcomes and results – monitor
what is to be assessed
– Scope for mid-course correction in contracts – performance based contracts
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Integrating the Climate Perspective in Cities
Adaptation & Mitigation
 There is no „climate“ project – it is an over-arching goal
 Directive from national and state governments
 Political consensus on climate objectives – policy and targets at the local
level
 Integrating adaptation & mitigation – inherent cross linkages
– Coimbatore: Enhancing energy efficiency of borewells – Reducing carbon
emissions, increasing yield per unit consumed
– Makati, Philippines: Massive tree plantation programmes - Carbon sequestration,
reduces urban heat island effect
– Bogota, Columbia: Urban agriculture – builds community‘s resilience to impacts
of flooding in supply areas, reduces transportation & energy consumption
 Climate proofing - Key criteria for all policy/development projects – both
at
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local level and at the approval stage (state/centre)
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