National Platform for Sustainable Cities and Climate Change

Country and Sustainable Cities IAP Overview

Peru is attempting to establish and implement the National Platform of Sustainable Cities and Climate Change, using the Lima Metropolitan Area (AML) as the first pilot. This is an ambitious, yet viable, objective that is quite innovative for the Peruvian context. The IAP project will provide top-quality information and the necessary tools to allow LMA and other cities in the country to have an urban planning strategy that includes environmental and climate-change considerations. Since LMA is the most important metropolitan area in the country, visibility of the project will increase the potential for replicability in other national urban areas. This will ensure the national impact of the project and will also increase the possibility that other metropolitan areas throughout Latin America adopt similar approaches. The five major components of the project are: (1) Enhancing integrated sustainable urban planning and management, (2) Hydric resources availability strategic assesments in LMA, (3) Monitoring and analyzing local and globally relevant biodiversity performance frameworks for improved ecosystems, (4) Catalyzing investments for urban accessibility in Lima, and (5) Institutional Strengthening. The City Action Platform attempts to (1) develop planning instruments for sustainability and risk management with climate change scenarios, with an observatory tool to integrate key information to decision makers; (2) promote intermodal transport in the city of Lima, through a pilot intervention in one district area around Line 2 of Lima Metro Project; (3) complement the baseline GHG emissions inventory of Lima metropolitan area; (4) improve the accessibility water resources from Rimac River basin to Lima; and (6) facilitate biodiversity tools to secure ecosystem services to Lima inhabitants