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Cities, climate change and multilevel governance [1]

Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the concentration of population, socio-economic activity, poverty
and infrastructure in urban areas translates into particular vulnerability to increased climate hazards. City governments and urban stakeholders will therefore be essential in the design and delivery of cost-effective adaptation policies. Further, by empowering local governments, national policies could leverage existing local experiments, accelerate policy responses, foster resource mobilization and engage local stakeholders. This paper presents a framework for multilevel governance, showing that advancing governance of climate change across all levels of government and relevant stakeholders is crucial to avoid policy gaps between local action plans and national policy frameworks (vertical integration) and to encourage crossscale learning between relevant departments or institutions in local and regional governments (horizontal dimension).

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
& et al [2], J. Corfee-Morlot [3], L. Kamal-Chaoui [4], M. G. Donovan [5]
OECD [6]
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Climate Change [7], Global Warming [8], Climate Impacts [9], Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [10], Urbanisation [11], Urban Planning [12], Governance [13], Africa [14], Asia [15], Calcutta (T) [16], Sustainable Development [17], Developing Countries [18]

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