The ClimateResilientCITIES Action Plan process is tailor made for Local Governments (LGs), providing step by step guidance for the development of a climate resilient city action plan that addresses both, climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. This planning process is based on the premise that climate resilience refers to both climate change mitigation (reduction of GHG emission) and adaptation (addressing climate change impacts such as sea level rise, precipitation changes, temperature changes and extreme events), and linkages therein.
This process equips LGs to estimate the GHG intensity of city activities, assess the climate risks of various systems in the city in the context of urbanization and poverty, identify actions to address existing and forecasted climate fragility and develop an implementation and monitoring plan, which will help the city to adapt to existing and impending climate change impacts and will also steer the city’s focus to climate change mitigation measures.
This process builds on ICLEI’s Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) Campaign, ICLEI’s flagship mitigation program; the GreenClimateCities (GCC) program and ICLEI’s adaptation toolkit, the ICLEI Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) Process or IAP toolkit.