When: Friday 4 December, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Venue: Blue Zone, Climate Change Studio
Background:
Cities account for a significant proportion of the world’s greenhouse gases, and are homes to concentrated populations that are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Climate action planning represents a core tool or discipline for developing comprehensive, coherent, and effective approaches to reducing emissions and building climate resilience in cities.
Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning have been developed through a year-long participatory process involving a variety of types of partners and stakeholders. The process (coordinated by UN-Habitat) included a partners’ meeting in Lima (December 2014), a survey of partners and stakeholders (February 2015), and Expert Group Meetings in Oslo (March 2015) and Bonn (June 2015).
An eight person partners’ Drafting Committee drafted the Guiding Principles and took them through an extensive peer review and revision process. All in all over a hundred persons contributed to this effort. To date (10 November 2015) the Guiding Principles have garnered over 44 endorsements from partners.
Objectives
- Sensitize participants about the importance of climate action planning as a key instrument in addressing climate change at the city level, and
- Launch Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning.
Proposed agenda
START TIME
TOPIC
PERSON
10:00
Welcome and introduction to session
Raf Tuts, UN-Habitat, moderator
10:04
Importance of climate action planning in helping cities to address climate change
Dr. Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-Habitat (tbc)
10:12
Process of developing Guiding Principles / Recognition of Drafting Committee, contributors and endorsing partners
Raf Tuts, UN-Habitat
10:20
Introduction to Guiding Principles, including webpage with additional tools and references
Alex Aylett, Institut national de la recherché scientifique (INRS-UCS)
10:28
Climate action planning in La Paz, Bolivia / Endorsement of Guiding Principles
Luis A. Revilla H., Mayor, City of La Paz
10:36
Importance of climate action planning in GEF’s Sustainable Cities Integrated Approach Pilot / Endorsement of Guiding Principles
Gustavo Fonseca, Program Director, Global Environment Facility (GEF) (tbc)
10:42
Tools & support for city-level climate action planning / Endorsement of Guiding Principles
Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President & Managing Director, WRI
10:48
Perspectives on planning by local authorities for low-carbon and climate-resilient development / Endorsement of Guiding Principles
Maryke van Staden, ICLEI
10:54
1-2 Questions from audience / Responses from panel
Raf Tuts
10:58
Next steps / Closing remarks
Raf Tuts
11:00
End of session
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Contact
For further information, please contact:
With copy to:
Cerin.kizhakkethottam@unhabitat.org.