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Planning for Climate Change - Toolkit  
View Details This report was developed for city planners to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the local level. Specifically targeted to the needs of planners and allied professionals in low and middle-income countries where the chal...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 160, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Planning for Climate Change: Guide  
View Details This report was developed for city planners to better understand, assess and take action on climate change at the local level. Specifically targeted to the needs of planners and allied professionals in low and middle-income countries where the chal...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 160, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Hoi An, Viet Nam  
View Details In Vietnamese cities, as in other cities globally, urban centres are often located in highly risk-prone areas, such as in the coastal zone, along rivers or among mountains. Major types of infrastructure, such as roads, hospitals and water supply ne...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 56, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Lami Town, Republic of Fiji  
View Details In Fiji, as in many areas in the Pacific, urban populations are located in highly hazard-prone areas in the coastal zone. Storm surges and sea-level rise can affect settlements, food production and infrastructure. A lack of basic services such as cle...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 32, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea  
View Details In Papua New Guinea, as in many areas in the Pacific, urban populations are often located in hazard-prone areas in the coastal zone. Storm surges and sea-level rise can affect settlements, food production and infrastructure. A lack of basic services ...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 56, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Honiara, Solomon Islands  
View Details The vulnerability and adaptation assessment for Honiara is to provide national and local government decision makers and community leaders with information relevant to defining their adaptation priorities and plans, with the view of eventually integ...
Year: 2014, Number of pages: 48, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Mid-Term Evaluation of the Cities and Climate Change Initiative  
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This report represents the Mid-Term Evaluation  of UN‑Habitat’s Cities and Climate Change Initiative. The Initiative was launched in 2008 and to date has been implemented in three phases: August 2008 to July 2010 (Phase I), August 2010 – D...

Year: 2013, Number of pages: 92, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Adaptation and mitigation strategy for climate change for the canton of Esmeraldas  
View Details This is an orienting document seeking to provide technical guidelines that will facilitate the design and implementation of policies and actions aiming at fighting the adverse impacts of climate change. It was drawn up in a participative fashion and ...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 28, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Promising Practices on Climate Change in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa  
View Details This compendium presents a series of promising practices in Sub-Saharan African cities that take into account the multiple dimensions of climate change. The featured practices cover four main topics: major roles for gender, youth and business; adapta...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 64, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Developing Local Climate Change Plans  
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This tool provides local policy-makers and major stakeholders with a methodology to plan for climate change. These plans must address both mitigation (e.g., reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) and adaptation (respon...

Year: 2012, Number of pages: 148, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Making Carbon Markets Work for Your City: A Guide for Cities in Developing Countries  
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There are a number of key areas of local government competencies that city officials may want to target when implementing carbon trading projects; including town and urban planning, infrastructure development, service provision, waste manageme...
Year: 2012, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Estrategia de adaptación y mitigación al Cambio Climático para el cantón Esmeraldas  
View Details   A nivel mundial, el Cambio Climático es reconocido hoy como uno de los desafíos del siglo XXI, poniendo de relieve el aumento del riesgo de los asentamientos humanos ubicados en los sectores más vulnerables. El Programa Ciudades en la Iniciativa pa...
Year: 2011, Number of pages: 52, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011  
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Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significan...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 250, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Local Leadership for Climate Change Action  
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This publication is a call to action for cities to address Climate Change. It presents information and practical case studies of what cities can do to respond to one of today's leading challenges in 12 key messages. This publication takes the vi...

Year: 2011, Number of pages: 18, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Integrating the Green and Brown Agendas in a Climate Change Context. Guide for the formulation of Environmental Local Agendas in Colombia (Spanish)  
View Details Climate change is as obvious as severe is the peril it suppose for ecosystems, infrastructure, livelihoods and health itself. We do have, however, ways to reduce its damages, decreasing the intensity of effects (mitigation) and minimizing the vuln...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 70, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Climate Change Assessment for Maputo, Mozambique  
View Details The Maputo Climate Change Assessment is based on the proposed Framework for Urban Climate Risk Assessment developed by the Fifth Urban Research Symposium. The climate risk assessment framework focuses on how cities are affected by climate change as o...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
SORSOGON CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT  
View Details The Sorsogon Climate Change Assessment examines the climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation capacity of a small coastal city in the Philippines - Sorsogon City in the Bicol Region. The assessment uses a participatory Vulnerability and Ad...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Climate Change Assessment for Kampala, Uganda  
View Details UN-HABITAT’s Cities and Climate Change Initiative promotes enhanced climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing country cities. Kampala is a pilot city of the Initiative, and this document is an initial output of the Kampala’s Cities and...
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 20, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
Climate Change Assessment for Esmeraldas, Ecquador  
View Details This report is based on the Adaptation to Climate Change in Ecuador and the city of Esmeraldas: An Assessment of Challenges and Opportunities, 2009, prepared within the framework of UN-HABITAT ’s Cities in Climate Change Initiative.
Year: 2010, Number of pages: 24, Type of publication: Book Download electronic version (PDF)
 
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