Integrated Urban Planning

The aggregated data by and for cities provides a strong justification for diplomacy around adaptation at key events, such as the High-Level Political Forum. The report targets local and regional governments with the aim to enhance understanding of planning, implementing, measuring, and reporting on climate change adaptation. This document will help activate the necessary awareness, modalities for support, and resources for cities and regions around the world to further commit, plan, implement, monitor, evaluate, and report their climate actions, including adaptation efforts.

The Urban Transitions Alliance initiative supports industrial legacy cities from across the globe to identify common challenges, share knowledge and develop solutions to successfully guide their individual sustainable solutions. These thematic briefing sheets capture key transition challenges, solution pathways and city case studies from the Alliance cities in the field of infrastructure, mobility, energy and social transitions.

For the past seven years, Siemens Cities Center of Competence (CoC) has been collaborating with more than 15 cities across North America to support Chief Sustainability Officers in evaluating technology and infrastructure options for deep carbon reduction. This report synthesizes results from those studies, sharing best practices, lessons learned, and trends in results, which can be used by any city in North America.