Sentences with phrase «urban climate action»

Leadership In Urban Climate Action To Be Recognised In Global Competition 28 April 2016

The past five years have brought a sea change in urban climate action: increased awareness of the critical role that local leaders play in carbon reduction; new capacity in local governments to tackle climate change; and a sharper focus on strategies that advance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and clean transportation.

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Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

They scrutinized adaptation plans which incorporate urban planning and development actions that lead to the abatement or reduction of vulnerability to climate change, and mitigation plans that include actions such as improved energy efficiency and renewable energy generation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

On the other hand, such urban areas are unencumbered by the complicated international negotiations that hamper climate change action at the international level.

With artists Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Takamatsu formed the collective Hi Red Center (1963 - 64), which carried out actions in Tokyo to call attention to issues faced in the postwar urban climate.

As part of the Royal Institute of British Architects series of lectures on Architecture and Climate Change, Herbert Girardet, environmentalist, urban philosopher and author spoke on «The Compelling Logic of Positive Action».

The full Presidential Climate Action Plan (as opposed to summaries) contains a comprehensive set of ideas to reduce transportation emissions, covering not only improvements in vehicle efficiency and alternative fuels, but also changes in national policy to promote high - speed rail for intercity travel, mass transit and telecommuting, and smart growth in urban development.

As a candidate in Portland State University's Master in Urban and Regional Planning program, Sophie is excited to help promote the goals of the Portland and Multnomah Climate Action Plan and gain experience directly engaging with Portland communities.

The climate crisis requires that urban governments and their partners embrace these actions at a greater scale and with more urgency than ever before.

This action plan lays out concrete actions to help countries deliver on their Nationally determined contributions and sets targets for 2020 in high - impact areas, including clean energy, green transport, climate - smart agriculture, and urban resilience, as well as in mobilizing the private sector to expand climate investments in developing countries.

By working closely with agency staff and community stakeholders, we created a number of innovative green building programs, sustainability plans, green urban design proposals and climate action strategies.

The reasons include a lack of relevant city policies and action plans; existence of regulations on urban planning and environment which have not been adjusted to manage climate change; slow response to climate disasters due to lack of capacity and resources; and lack of public awareness on climate variability and climate change - induced hazard mitigation.

For the third year in a row, Sustainia, C40, and Realdania have collected the 100 best urban solutions to climate change from cities around the world, and the 2017 edition of Cities100 presents some extraordinary cases of city climate action within the categories of energy, adaptation, transportation, mitigation, and waste.

It briefly presents the Mayor's Task Force on Climate Change, Disaster Risk and the Urban Poor, launched in 2009 with the aim to better understand these issues, and provides recommended actions to build resilience of the urban Urban Poor, launched in 2009 with the aim to better understand these issues, and provides recommended actions to build resilience of the urban urban poor.

This guidance document focuses on the need to enhance understanding of the region's key urban stakeholders on climate change, discusses how it affects efforts to realize sustainable urban development, and explores what actions can be taken to synergize continued commitments to poverty reduction alongside urban climate resilience.

This technical document complements the Planning for Climate Change: A strategic values - based approach for urban planners, a resource and planning guide developed for city planners and other professionals to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the localClimate Change: A strategic values - based approach for urban planners, a resource and planning guide developed for city planners and other professionals to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the localclimate change at the local level.

Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans: Lessons from Sri Lanka (2014)

«Following the Paris climate agreement, we must now take bold action to protect our planet for future generations,» says its president Jim Yong Kim, harping on the need to help nations transition to renewable sources of energy, produce green transport, and build livable, sustainable urban cities.

The Western Province in Sri Lanka is the first provincial government in the country to include urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in its climate change adaptation action strategy.

Some of the objectives of the project are to identify spatial vulnerability of populations during extreme heat events in selected areas; identify the impacts of extreme heat events on the health, work productivity and livelihoods of vulnerable population, to select appropriate, innovative and affordable climate adaptation measures for improving health and livelihood resilience for the urban population with consideration of gender - based implications, to strengthen the capacity of key stakeholders through training opportunities and to facilitate active use of information and evidence for policy - makers to drive the implementation of the Heat Stress Action Plans into municipal disaster strategies.

Such changes might depend on a social movement for climate stabilization that supports long - term changes in social norms (e.g. about family size), greater availability of mass transit, climate - friendly urban design, or other actions that are impractical on the short term but on a longer time scale increase the plasticity of potentially high - impact behaviors.

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about Integrating urban agriculture and forestry into climate change action plans: Lessons from Sri Lanka (2014)

This policy brief was elaborated by the RUAF Foundation on the basis of the results of an on - going UN-Habitat and CDKN funded programme to integrate urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry into city and provincial climate change actions plans.

During the second Mayoral Session, discussions focused on how local governments can contribute to the global agreements, particularly the Paris Agreement and the New Urban Agenda, and define specific requests to national governments in this regard to ensure enabling frameworks are in place to support local climate action.

Examples of actions with co-benefits include (i) improved energy efficiency and cleaner energy sources, leading to reduced emissions of health - damaging climate - altering air pollutants; (ii) reduced energy and water consumption in urban areas through greening cities and recycling water; (iii) sustainable agriculture and forestry; and (iv) protection of ecosystems for carbon storage and other ecosystem services.»

The New Urban Agenda establishes a vision for sustainable urbanization that requires strong action on climate.

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Cities can update their climate projections and urban climate change action plans as scientific understanding improves and city leaders learn more about resiliency, but there is no reason to delay climate action planning.

An open source guide, the Community Energy Implementation Framework, designed to help communities move Community Energy Plans from a vision to implementation, was released today in beta at QUEST2016 — Smart Energy Communities for Jobs, Infrastructure and Climate Action by the Community Energy Association, QUEST — Quality Urban Energy Systems of Tomorrow, and Sustainable Prosperity.