Resources

Released during the Urban20 Mayoral Summit in July 2023, the “Ahmedabad Climate Resilient City Action Plan – Towards A Net Zero Future” serves as a comprehensive roadmap to address the local impacts of climate change for the U20 Chair city. This action plan follows ICLEI South Asia’s Net-Zero ClimateResilientCITIES Methodology and was developed under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation-funded CapaCITIES project.

Released during the Urban20 Mayoral Summit in July 2023, the State of Cities: Towards Low Carbon and Resilient Pathways report was prepared as a collaboration effort between the ICLEI South Asia and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and sheds light on the climate-related issues confronting 15 Indian cities from a global perspective. Through captivating graphics, the report presents a comprehensive overview of electricity consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy-related issues within these cities, while also highlighting the climate initiatives and strategies being implemented.

Participating in opening and closing plenaries—as well as roundtables on mitigation, adaptation, implementation, and holistic approaches (plus a poster session)—the LGMA highlighted the #Stocktake4ClimateEmergency as a key mechanism for lending local-level ground-truthing to the Global Stocktake and elevated the need for local-national cooperation, accelerated adaptation, and finance reform.

Launched in 2015 at COP21 and coordinated by Regions4, RegionsAdapt is the pioneering initiative that brings together leading states and regions on climate change adaptation. Through data analysis from 32 regions paired with 8 qualitative interviews, the 2021-2022 report focuses on capturing the actions and progress of subnational governments to adapt to climate change risks.

The 2019 “Adaptation Book” gives an overview of adaptation actions actually implemented in the territories, in a selection of sectors and economic sectors, and finally available elements estimating investments and adaptation financing needs of non-state actors.

Climate action is undertaken by multiple actors across multiple levels of governance and for this reason climate governance has been established as a multi-level governance (MLG) process. But to what extent is MLG delivering climate-resilient outputs? What are the challenges that MLG brings, and how can subnational governments deal with and further address these challenges?

Local and subnational governments have demonstrated in 2019 an escalation of political and technical contributions to the global efforts in the fight against climate change. This report provides a synthesis of mitigation and adaptation progress elements through local governments’ initiatives and networks, case studies of cities and regions aligning their public policies to reach climate and urban development objectives, and “around the world in 80 climate initiatives” illustrating the trends of actions in 10 local public policies.

As national governments move towards the 2020 revision of the NDCs, the legacy of COP24 will drive the local climate advocacy agenda for 2019. COP24 in Katowice gave us a detailed rulebook on implementing the Paris Agreement and concluded the year-long Talanoa Dialogue, bringing local and regional governments into the consultation process. This report covers the key outcomes of COP24 and the 2019 Climate Advocacy Agenda.

This synthesis report offers guidance and context around how national governments can leverage subnational climate efforts in support of national goals. Drawing on the outcomes of more than 60 multilevel dialogues – the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues – this document highlights the value of multilevel climate action, inclusive policy making and the Talanoa process.

These outcomes highlight the knowledge gained through the Dialogue process, and provide a model for organizing outputs.