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Climate Change

An estimated 70 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions come from cities. Rapid urbanization is expected to continue, intensifying even further the energy use in the cities. Yet there is also an opportunity. Cities are also where the greatest energy efficiencies can take place. Learn more about how cities are tackling climate change – with innovative approaches to improving city management and service delivery, to encouraging green growth. 

Climate Change

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Solutions Gateway Sourcebook: Low Carbon Solutions for Urban Development Challenges

  • Topic
    Low Emissions Zone (LEZ)
  • Published On
    March 01, 2016
  • Author(s)
    Ana Marques (ICLEI World Secretariat)
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    • Solutions Gateway Sourcebook: Low Carbon Solutions for Urban Development Challenges

    The local government plays a crucial role in defining and harnessing the benefits of urban low emission resilient development pathways for its community. However, this is also the level of government which has to deal with severe capacity constraints, both staff and financial, and faces conflicting priorities on a daily basis. This implies the need to optimize time and staff capacity wisely. The Solutions Gateway supports this view, to guide, showcase examples of good practice, with a focus on proven solutions for low emission and sustainable development.

Measuring, Reporting, Verification (MRV) of Urban Low Emission Development; ICLEI’s Green Climate Cities Handbook for Local Governments

  • Topic
    Climate Action Planning, Policy and Governance
  • Published On
    March 01, 2016
  • Author(s)
    Ana Marues, Chang Deng-Beck, Maryke van Staden, Joseph Wladkowski, Agathe Cavicchioli, Lucy Price, Steve Gawler, Soumya Chaturvedula, Igor Albuuerue, Steven Bland, Stephen Davis
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    • Measuring, Reporting, Verification (MRV) of Urban Low Emission Development; ICLEI’s Green Climate Cities Handbook for Local Governments

    Paris Agreement led onto the beginning of a new era where climate action is accelerated, coordinated and properly financed. It is clear that climate action at local level is critical to ensure bottom-up results are achieved, that in turn support accomplishment of international goals and target set in Paris Agreement.  Yet we also know that local governments cannot do this alone, they need support and engagement from all levels of government.

Buying Green!

  • Topic
    Climate Action Planning
  • Published On
    February 01, 2016
  • Author(s)
    European Commission
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    • Buying Green!

    The third edition of the European Commission's guidance on implementing green public procurement. This version has been updated to reflect the updated 2014 Procurement Directives. The Handbook was compiled by ICLEI under a contract with the European Commission.

"Raising the Stakes: A Survey of Public and Public-Private Fund Models and Initiatives to Mobilize Private Investment"

  • Topic
    Climate Finance
  • Published On
    November 01, 2013
  • Author(s)
    Clifford Polycarp, Shally Venugopal, Tom Nagle, and Andrew Catania
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    • "Raising the Stakes: A Survey of Public and Public-Private Fund Models and Initiatives to Mobilize Private Investment"

    Over the past decade and especially in the past five years, industrialized governments and development finance institutions have launched a multitude of dedicated climate change funds and initiatives intended to mobilize private sector investment in mitigation and adaptation projects in developing countries. This paper examines this increasingly used model to channel climate finance, hereafter referred to as public and public–private climate funds and initiatives (PPCFIs).

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Cities, Towns and Renewable Energy

  • Country/ City
    Global
  • Published On
    January 01, 2009
  • Author(s)
    Ralph Sims
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    • Cities, Towns and Renewable Energy

    A major transition of the energy sector is needed if the global issues of energy security, energy access, sustainable development and climate change are all to be adequately addressed this century. Whereas many of the policy initiatives and negotiations relating to energy and climate change are being undertaken at the national and international levels, in parallel many leading cities and towns are taking their own decisions concerning their energy destiny — and their actions are beginning to have an impact.

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