Journal articles: 'Climate Action Plans'

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Stone, Brian, Jason Vargo, and Dana Habeeb. "Managing climate change in cities: Will climate action plans work?" Landscape and Urban Planning 107, no. 3 (2012): 263–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.05.014.

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Jekabsone, Anda, José Pablo Delgado Marín, Sofia Martins, Marika Rosa, and Agris Kamenders. "Upgrade from SEAP to SECAP: Experience of 6 European Municipalities." Environmental and Climate Technologies 25, no. 1 (2021): 254–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2021-0018.

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Abstract Since 2008 many municipalities in the European Union have taken part in the Covenant of Mayors (CoM) initiative and have developed Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP) to contribute to climate change mitigation. To respond to new policy goals for 2030, the CoM has expanded its focus and since 2018 requires municipalities to cover climate adaptation actions. The main aim of this paper is to analyse the first experiences of six municipalities from Spain, Portugal and Latvia in upgrading their existing Sustainable Energy Actions Plans to Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAP). SECAPs were developed through a participatory process involving all relevant local stakeholders, to gain maximum understanding and acceptance. Each municipality implemented climate adaption actions to demonstrate the need for adaptation and the ways it can be accomplished.

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Tang, Zhenghong, Samuel D. Brody, Courtney Quinn, Liang Chang, and Ting Wei. "Moving from agenda to action: evaluating local climate change action plans." Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53, no. 1 (2010): 41–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640560903399772.

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Sarıkoç Yıldırım, Beyza. "Climate Justice at the Local Level." Politikon: The IAPSS Journal of Political Science 45 (June 29, 2020): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22151/politikon.45.1.

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Climate change is an issue of social justice, as it affects different social groups in the urban space differently. Yet, while formulating climate action plans, local governments often disregard the relationship between climate change and justice. By using content analysis, this article explores climate change action plans of Turkish municipalities from the perspective of climate justice. It concludes that action plans of Turkish municipalities do not consider climate change as a problem of justice despite the emerging or exacerbated inequalities in the urban space caused by climate change.

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Abbott, J. Anthony, and Kiryssa Kasprzyk. "Hot Air: University Climate Action Plans and Disarticulated Federalism." Professional Geographer 64, no. 4 (2012): 572–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2011.614560.

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Choi, Joon-Sung. "Analysis on Climate Action Plans of Portland, Oregon, USA." Journal of the Korea Institute of Ecological Architecture and Environment 13, no. 3 (2013): 3–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.12813/kieae.2013.13.3.003.

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Thuc, Tran, Nguyen Van Thang, and Tran Dinh Trong. "Climate Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam: Tendency, Strategic Tasks, and Action Plans." Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management 5, no. 3 (2013): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.3850/s1793924012100122.

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Damsø, Tue, Tyge Kjær, and Thomas Budde Christensen. "Local climate action plans in climate change mitigation – examining the case of Denmark." Energy Policy 89 (February 2016): 74–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2015.11.013.

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Fatemi, Md Nawrose, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, and Michihiro Kita. "Multi-Level Climate Governance in Bangladesh via Climate Change Mainstreaming: Lessons for Local Climate Action in Dhaka City." Urban Science 4, no. 2 (2020): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci4020024.

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Over the last three decades, Bangladesh has implemented various initiatives to address different climate change impacts. In a multi-level governance arrangement, addressing climate change impacts is often constrained by climate change mainstreaming. In Bangladesh, a crucial question that arises is how mitigation and adaptation efforts are addressed at both national and sub-national levels. This paper examines the integration of climate change issues into national, sectoral, and city development plans with a particular focus on Dhaka using a framework developed based on the United Nations Development Program’s (UNDP) climate change mainstreaming guidelines for national development processes. The review finds evidence that mainstreaming of climate change is strong in national and sectoral development plans and has been incremental since 2002. However, climate change mainstreaming in Dhaka city development plans is moderate, especially in terms of climate risk and opportunity assessment, institutional arrangement, and capacity building for climate action. To augment existing efforts at mainstreaming at the sub-national level, the paper suggests the need to build sub-national level climate capacity with particular attention to institutional coordination and cooperation among agencies at different levels of development planning and to establish a national financing arrangement that allows sub-national agencies to harness climate finance.

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Blackhurst, Michael, H. Scott Matthews, Aurora L. Sharrard, Chris T. Hendrickson, and Inês Lima Azevedo. "Preparing US community greenhouse gas inventories for climate action plans." Environmental Research Letters 6, no. 3 (2011): 034003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034003.

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Pollak, Melisa, Bryn Meyer, and Elizabeth Wilson. "Reducing greenhouse gas emissions: Lessons from state climate action plans." Energy Policy 39, no. 9 (2011): 5429–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.05.020.

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Walker, Lindsay, Miguel A. Figliozzi, Ashley R. Haire, and John MacArthur. "Climate Action Plans and Long-Range Transportation Plans in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2252, no. 1 (2011): 118–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2252-15.

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Yi, Hongtao, and Richard C. Feiock. "Climate action plan adoptions in the US states." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 7, no. 3 (2015): 375–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-02-2014-0019.

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Purpose – This paper aims to examine state adoption of climate action plans (CAPs) and investigates the factors driving the adoption of these climate policies in the states. Design/methodology/approach – The framework that is formulated to explain the state climate actions involves four dimensions: climate risks, climate politics, climate economic and climate policy diffusions. These hypotheses are tested with event history analysis on a panel data set on 48 US continental states from 1994 to 2008. Findings – This paper found empirical evidence to support climate politics, economics and policy diffusion explanations. It also found that climate risks are not taken into account in states’ climate actions. A comparison is conducted to compare the differences in state and local climate policymaking. Originality/value – The paper investigates the motivations of state governments in adopting CAPs, and makes comparisons with local climate strategies. It contributes to academic understanding of the multilevel governance of climate protection in the USA.

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Balouktsi, M. "Crafting local climate action plans: An action prioritisation framework using multi-criteria decision analysis." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 323 (September 6, 2019): 012075. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012075.

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McGregor, Ian M., Hilary Yerbury, and Ahmed Shahid. "The Voices of Local NGOs in Climate Change Issues: Examples from Climate Vulnerable Nations." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10, no. 3 (2018): 63–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v10.i3.6019.

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The contributions of small local non-government organisations (NGOs) in countries at risk from climate change to knowledge creation and action on climate change are rarely considered. This study sought to remedy this by focusing on NGOs in member countries of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF). Analysing data from Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), NGO websites and email correspondence with NGO staff through a knowledge brokering typology, this study examines the ways in which local NGOs in five members of the CVF (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Kiribati, Nepal and Tuvalu) take action, generate new knowledge and understandings and contribute to the plans and actions of their government and the international community. The study found that local NGOs are involved in the creation of new knowledge both at the scientific and community level and engage in actions to support adaptation to climate change. However, there are differences in the approaches they take when making contributions to scientific knowledge and climate change debates. The findings of this study suggest the need to reconceptualise the role of local NGOs in small countries at risk from climate change.

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Godbout-Beaulieu, E., R. Daigle, and Yves Gagnon. "Analysis of North American action plans and policies on climate change." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6, no. 50 (2009): 502012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1307/6/50/502012.

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Nuding, Amelia. "Energy Management of the Water Sector in Municipal Climate Action Plans." Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation 2011, no. 6 (2011): 140–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864711802836508.

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Hui, Iris, Gemma Smith, and Caroline Kimmel. "Think globally, act locally: adoption of climate action plans in California." Climatic Change 155, no. 4 (2019): 489–509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02505-7.

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Hein, Jonas, Alejandro Guarin, Ezra Frommé, and Pieter Pauw. "Deforestation and the Paris climate agreement: An assessment of REDD + in the national climate action plans." Forest Policy and Economics 90 (May 2018): 7–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2018.01.005.

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Campbell, Hailey, Alise Crippen, Corey Hawkey, and Mick Dalrymple. "A ROADMAP FOR BUILDING CLIMATE RESILIENCE AT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY." Journal of Green Building 15, no. 4 (2020): 237–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3992/jgb.15.4.237.

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ABSTRACT Over the past few years, more and more higher education institutions have pledged to achieve carbon neutrality and designed and adopted Climate Action Plans. Although many higher institutions are adopting climate action plans, few are integrating resilience principles and priorities, which are essential for understanding institutions’ adaptive capacity for dealing with climate change. There is little existing research on how higher education institutions can implement climate resilience programs, behaviors, and policies into their planning process and campus-communities. To address this gap, this case study explores Arizona State University’s process of designing and implementing a climate resilience plan and outlines best practices other higher education institutions can utilize to create their own climate resilience plan. We critically discuss the importance of climate resilience at the higher education level, outline steps necessary for designing an inclusive and holistic climate resilience plan, and provide examples of important techniques used to design the climate resilience plan.

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Sun, Xinyu, Amelia Clarke, and Adriane MacDonald. "Implementing Community Sustainability Plans through Partnership: Examining the Relationship between Partnership Structural Features and Climate Change Mitigation Outcomes." Sustainability 12, no. 15 (2020): 6172. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12156172.

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Addressing society’s most complex challenges, such as climate change, requires bringing together stakeholders from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors. At the municipal level, multi-stakeholder partnerships are often formed to implement community sustainability plans. However, these partnerships can create new challenges, as it is cumbersome to coordinate action among a group that is made up of such diverse stakeholders. Past research suggests that it is important for these partnerships to have the appropriate structures in place to mitigate some of the coordination challenges to which they are prone. Yet, very few studies have examined the influence that different structural features have on plan outcomes. This article seeks to address this important research gap by using quantitative methods to examine five different features that can compose partnership structures—oversight, monitoring and evaluation, partner engagement, communication, and community wide-actions and their impact on climate change mitigation outcomes. Based on data collected through a global survey and publicly available greenhouse gases emission data from 72 different partnerships that implement community sustainability plans (CSPs), this study finds that structural features related to oversight and community-wide actions are positively associated with climate change mitigation outcomes. These results indicate that certain features of partnership structures may be more important for achieving desirable climate change mitigation outcomes, and thus contribute to research on collaborative governance structures and climate action.

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Damsø, Tue, Tyge Kjær, and Thomas Budde Christensen. "Implementation of local climate action plans: Copenhagen – Towards a carbon-neutral capital." Journal of Cleaner Production 167 (November 2017): 406–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.08.156.

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Yalçın, Melike, and Benoit Lefèvre. "Local Climate Action Plans in France: Emergence, Limitations and Conditions for Success." Environmental Policy and Governance 22, no. 2 (2012): 104–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eet.1575.

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Cardoso, Maria Adriana, Maria João Telhado, Maria do Céu Almeida, et al. "Following a Step by Step Development of a Resilience Action Plan." Sustainability 12, no. 21 (2020): 9017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12219017.

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According to the United Nations, by 2030, 60% of the world’s population will live in cities, and 70% by 2050. Both consolidated and fast urbanizing areas face diverse acute shocks from natural disasters and long-term stresses, such as the effects of climate change. Therefore, there is a need for cities to implement plans for increasing resilience and improving preparedness to cope with both acute shocks and long-term stresses. Development of resilience action plans (RAP) constitutes an important process for the cities to plan their resilience enhancement in the long, medium, and short terms. These are key tools for the city, considering the associated complexity, uncertainties, data scarcity, interdependencies among urban services provided in the city, as well as involved stakeholders. Herein, a framework is presented to support city resilience action planning related to climate change through a multisector approach. The framework was applied step by step to three cities—Barcelona, Bristol, and Lisbon—and their RAPs to climate change provide roadmaps for resilience, having the urban water cycle as the core. In these plans, urban services are included, given their interactions and contributions to city’s resilience. Addressed services are water supply, wastewater, storm water, waste, electric energy, and mobility.

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Revich, Boris A., V. V. Maleev, M. D. Smirnova, and N. Yu Pshenichnaya. "RUSSIAN AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACTION PLANS FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN HEALTH FROM CLIMATE RISKS." Hygiene and sanitation 99, no. 2 (2020): 176–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.33029/0016-9900-2020-99-2-176-181.

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The Paris climate agreement confirmed that climate change continues to pose a global concern and required all Parties to put forward their best efforts to protect public health. In the conditions of global warming, climate-induced risks gained importance as a public health hazard and confirmed the need to develop national action plans. Such plans shall be developed locally, taking into account the requirements of the National Action Plan for adaptation to health risks induced by changing climate. This manuscript presents the data on climate-dependent mortality. The global annual burden of excess deaths attributed to climate change is over 150,000 cases, which leads to a loss of 5.5 million years of productive life per year. Early warning systems have been adopted in many countries, with the goal to prevent heat-related deaths. If such a system were implemented in Moscow, eleven thousand excess deaths could have been avoided during the extremely hot summer of 2010. Heat watch warning systems are based on scientific data on heat thresholds. On the days with temperatures above such thresholds, climate-dependent mortality increases. Such thresholds have been established in the environmental epidemiology studies conducted in Moscow, Northern and Southern cities, the cities with continental and monsoon climates. The experience of implementation of early warning systems during extreme weather events was analyzed. The relative powers of bioclimatic indices as predictors of daily mortality rates during extreme weather events were compared. To prevent complications of cardiovascular diseases, a set of protective measures was proposed which included cardiology medications, recommendations on personal behavior and drinking habits during extreme heat, and other measures. The risks and examples of occurrence and northward propagation of climate-dependent infectious diseases such as Siberian anthrax, West Nile fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and dirofilariasis, were described.

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Tang, Zhenghong, Zijia Wang, and Thomas Koperski. "Measuring local climate change response capacity and bridging gaps between local action plans and land use plans." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 3, no. 1 (2011): 74–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17568691111107952.

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Gwimbi, Patrick. "Mainstreaming national adaptation programmes of action into national development plans in Lesotho." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 9, no. 03 (2017): 299–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-11-2015-0164.

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Purpose The concept of National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) is advocated at international, regional and national levels. The concept is thought to foster sustainability of livelihoods against impacts of climate change. This paper analyses the mainstreaming of NAPA into national development plans in Lesotho as accentuated by policies and programmes. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is broadly qualitative and reviews policies and projects on agriculture and food security, environment, forestry, water and irrigation aimed at sustaining rural livelihoods. Data from relevant government documents, commissioned studies’ reports, literature and key stakeholders are used. Findings Although the mainstreaming entry point for NAPA is identified in the country’s Vision 2020 and National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) 2012/13-2016/17, financial, technical, human and other resources are inadequate to ensure its effective implementation. There is little evidence of NAPA mainstreaming into development plans by the line ministries of finance and economic development other than donor-funded projects. Absence of climate change policy influence means NAPA is not well-factored into the national development agenda, as mainstreaming is difficult without appropriate policies. Most projects with effect on climate change impact abatement originate from specific sectors and are disconnected from each other. Originality/value Based on the findings, ways to leverage NAPA via mainstreaming are discussed. It is concluded that NAPA mainstreaming offers a promising avenue for initiating and promoting sustainable livelihoods in Lesotho. The study demonstrates the applicability of the presented sustainable livelihood framework.

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Shrestha, Pratima, and Dev Raj Gautam. "Improving Forest-Based Livelihoods through Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Planning." Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 2, no. 1 (2014): 135–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v2i1.10819.

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Forest-based livelihoods are ruthlessly affected by climate change and other non-climatic stressors. Forests as one of the precious natural assets available in the Chitwan Annapurna area is an appropriate sector to address community and ecosystem vulnerability through adaptation works like plantation, protecting biophysical environment against hazards like landslide, floods, and water scarcity. In Nepal, Community Forest Users Groups with legal entity serves as grassroot organizations in preparation of community based adaptation plan of action (CAPA). Hariyo Ban Program, have facilitated in preparation of community based adaptation plans in remote, vulnerable and marginalized communities of different places of Gandaki river basin. The result shows community perception towards climatic and non climatic stresses and its impacts in forest based livelihoods. Climate change, its variability and extreme events have mystified people’s livelihood and forced them to further suffering. Preparation and implementation of adaptation plans has provided a ray of hope towards addressing adverse impact of climate change. Till date, 142 community adaptation plans are prepared following a methodology on integrated community adaptation planning. Adaptation planning has let community know about the prevailing threats and vulnerabilities in their communities and helped to identify adaptation measures to reduce those threats and vulnerabilities, resulting in improved livelihoods. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v2i1.10819 Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.2(1) 2014: 135-146

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Axelrod, Mark. "Climate Change and Global Fisheries Management: Linking Issues to Protect Ecosystems or to Save Political Interests?" Global Environmental Politics 11, no. 3 (2011): 64–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00069.

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This article explores the conditions under which regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) adopt climate actions. I test a series of hypotheses to explain when RFMOs move beyond their classic management approaches—assignment of property rights, catch limits, and gear restrictions—to include climate change in their research and management plans. I introduce a new data set that compares fisheries-climate linkages since 1992 in all available RFMO annual reports and meeting minutes. The analysis reveals a series of patterns surrounding linkage politics in RFMOs. Importantly, this study finds that climate linkages in RFMOs do not simply follow scientific knowledge or regional climate vulnerability. Instead, climate action coincides with member country efforts to avoid catch regulations, and secretariat efforts to exhibit organizational relevance.

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Harbour, Clifford P., and Beverly L. Bower. "Community Colleges in the Anthropocene: A Philosophical Justification for Campus Climate Action Plans." Community College Journal of Research and Practice 44, no. 1 (2019): 6–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2019.1646679.

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Parsaee, Mojtaba, Mahmood Mastani Joybari, Parham A. Mirzaei, and Fariborz Haghighat. "Urban heat island, urban climate maps and urban development policies and action plans." Environmental Technology & Innovation 14 (May 2019): 100341. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eti.2019.100341.

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Semeraro, Elizabeth, and Neil M. Boyd. "An empirical assessment of administration and planning activity and their impact on the realization of sustainability-related initiatives and programs in higher education." International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education 18, no. 7 (2017): 1311–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-03-2016-0047.

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Purpose Administrators in higher-education settings routinely create planning documents that help steer the organization in mission-centric ways. In the area of sustainability planning, strategic plans, sustainability plans and climate action plans are the most common methods used. The purpose of this study is to evaluate if specific forms of planning predict sustainability outcomes. Design/methodology/approach This question was evaluated via an empirical archival study of the AASHE STARS database in relation to planning, administration and governance credits and criteria to determine if specific forms of planning were predictive of sustainability implementation outcomes in the categories of Education and Research, Operations, Diversity and Affordability, Human Resources, Investment, Public Engagement and Innovation. Findings Findings support the notion that climate action plans were most predictive of achieving sustainability outcomes, and strategic plans were best able to predict educational outcomes. Practical implications These findings have important implications for the design and execution of sustainability planning processes in higher-education institutions. Originality/value The academic literature contains relatively few empirical studies that demonstrate the capacity of planning on the realization of sustainability outcomes.

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Kerr, Rachel, Julia Frost Nerbonne, and Teddie Potter. "Sparking a Movement for a Healthy Climate Through Leadership Development." Creative Nursing 25, no. 3 (2019): 216–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1078-4535.25.3.216.

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Climate change is increasingly impacting health, and health care is contributing to climate change through carbon emissions. Nurses can help mitigate climate change and its effects through leadership development initiatives to expand the impact of the efforts of a single person by activating others. This article describes one such nurse-led leadership development project. The intervention adapted a workshop series curriculum for faith community audiences to a health professional audience. The program gave participants the ability to assess their assets, understand the psychology of communication of climate change, and design appropriately-scaled actions to help mitigate climate change. The program consisted of three in-person workshop sessions plus bi-weekly individual consultations with participants. The seven participants included physicians, nurses, physician and nurse educators, a public health professional, and a veterinary medicine student. The workshops included content on communicating about climate change, crafting a public narrative/storytelling, and tools and methods for organizing in the climate movement. Participants completed action plans including a broad range of leadership efforts as part of the intervention; all participants completed at least the first step of their action plan during the program period. Qualitative interviews highlighted facets of participants' experiences. Nurses and other health professionals are leading the way in mitigating climate change; leadership development programs such as this are one way of taking effective climate action.

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GIRVETZ, EVAN H., ELIZABETH GRAY, TIMOTHY H. TEAR, and MATTHEW A. BROWN. "Bridging climate science to adaptation action in data sparse Tanzania." Environmental Conservation 41, no. 2 (2014): 229–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892914000010.

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SUMMARYIn the face of an already changing climate, conservation practitioners and local communities face the major challenge of how to plan for a future climate. In data-sparse areas of the world, where action is often most needed, the daunting scope of the problem can lead to inaction. This paper shows that climate adaptation planning can be accomplished successfully with publicly and globally available data by linking science and stakeholders through a facilitated process. Working with local stakeholders in the western Tanzanian Greater Mahale and Greater Gombe Ecosystems, future climate projections produced using Climate Wizard and analyses of literature provided an understanding of the climate vulnerabilities of local ecosystems and human livelihoods. Facilitated workshops enabled local stakeholders to use this information to develop conceptual models and hypotheses of change for these systems, and to identify possible modifications to conservation plans. Here, climate change planning required the modification of most current conservation strategies, developing some new strategies and abandoning others. The paper indicates that climate adaptation planning is achievable even in data-sparse rural and developing areas, but requires appropriate scientific analyses, engaged stakeholders and a facilitated process.

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Belesova, Kristine, Max Callaghan, Jan C. Minx, et al. "Climate action for health and wellbeing in cities: a protocol for the systematic development of a database of peer-reviewed studies using machine learning methods." Wellcome Open Research 6 (March 5, 2021): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16570.1.

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Cities produce more than 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Action by cities is therefore crucial for climate change mitigation as well as for safeguarding the health and wellbeing of their populations under climate change. Many city governments have made ambitious commitments to climate change mitigation and adaptation and implemented a range of actions to address them. However, a systematic record and synthesis of the findings of evaluations of the effect of such actions on human health and wellbeing is currently lacking. This, in turn, impedes the development of robust knowledge on what constitutes high-impact climate actions of benefit to human health and wellbeing, which can inform future action plans, their implementation and scale-up. The development of a systematic record of studies reporting climate and health actions in cities is made challenging by the broad landscape of relevant literature scattered across many disciplines and sectors, which is challenging to effectively consolidate using traditional literature review methods. This protocol reports an innovative approach for the systematic development of a database of studies of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions implemented in cities, and their benefits (or disbenefits) for human health and wellbeing, derived from peer-reviewed academic literature. Our approach draws on extensive tailored search strategies and machine learning methods for article classification and tagging to generate a database for subsequent systematic reviews addressing questions of importance to urban decision-makers on climate actions in cities for human health and wellbeing.

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Revich, B. A., and E. A. Grigorieva. "Health Risks to the Russian Population from Weather Extremes in the Beginning of the XXI Century. Part 1. Heat and Cold Waves." Issues of Risk Analysis 18, no. 2 (2021): 12–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.32686/1812-5220-2021-18-2-12-33.

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This literature review summarizes the results of international studies conducted by WHO, WMO, EU, and other organizations, in the areas of assessment of climate change-induced urban health risks, and development of action plans for adaptation of public health care and other public governance bodies to climate change. The results of studies of the relationships between heat waves, cold spells, and mortality rates conducted in Russian cities have also been critically reviewed. The study cites included the largest cities (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, etc.) situated in various climate zones: Arctic, South European part of Russia, continental and monsoon climate zones. These studies showed that heat waves in the cities with moderately continental climate typically lead to greater increases in all-cause mortality rates than cold spells, relative to the cities located in other climate zones. At the same time, the health impacts of cold spells were more pronounced than those of heat waves in the north cities, which was not observed in the Russian South or Middle Siberia cities. On average, cold spells are characterized by greater health risks in the north cities than in the south cities. The values of the 3rd and 97th percentiles of long-term distributions of daily mean temperatures can be used as the threshold values for hazardous cold and heat waves. The health action plans should be activated when daily mean temperatures fall below the cold threshold, or exceed the heat threshold. The values of temperature thresholds depend upon local climates and are similar to hygienic standards. Russia has adopted a National Plan for adaptation to health risks induced by climate change. This plan includes the measures specifically aimed at reductions of excess mortality during heat waves and cold spells. The National Plan prescribes that similar plans should be developed for all administrative subjects of the Russian Federation. Implementation of heat wave (or cold spell) early warning systems in combination with other preventive measures can effectively reduce the numbers of excess deaths during extreme weather events.

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Mewes, Clara, and Charlotte Unger. "Learning by Doing: Co-Benefits Drive National Plans for Climate and Air Quality Governance." Atmosphere 12, no. 9 (2021): 1184. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/atmos12091184.

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What drives countries to realize more integrated policymaking? The co-benefits concept highlights the win–win situations that can arise if one policy measure addresses two or more policy goals, e.g., air quality and health benefits resulting from a climate policy. Scholars have suggested that decision makers, if confronted with the evidence of co-benefits, would update their beliefs and adopt stronger or more ambitious climate policies. In other words, a learning process takes place. This paper looks at the policy processes in two countries, Mexico and Nigeria, as part of the Supporting National Action and Planning (SNAP) initiative under the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). The SNAP initiative supports governments with policymaking and implementation for a reduction in short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs). This paper seeks to reveal how learning processes and their outcomes are influenced by co-benefits as a specific type of information. Looking at an example of how the co-benefits concept is applied in political practice offers valuable insights into how learning is part of the policymaking process and can shape its outcomes, such as national (climate) action plans.

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Rakibul, Alam, and Bahauddin Khalid Md. "Mainstreaming Climate Change. Adaptation into Regional Planning of Least Developed Countries: Strategy Implications for Regions in Bangladesh." Management of Sustainable Development 6, no. 1 (2014): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/msd-2014-0001.

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Abstract The purpose of the study is to assess the search for mainstreaming climate change adaptation into regional planning of least developed countries (LDCs) and draw strategy implications for regions in Bangladesh. The findings of the study revealed that national adaptation programme of action (NAPAs) in least developed countries were being gender-blind and failed to be properly implemented. Least developed countries should therefore do more to prepare for ongoing and future climate changes focusing on actions that are no-regrets, multi-sectoral and multi-level, and that improve the management of current climate variability. Strengthening capacities to use climate information, enabling locally appropriate responses, screening climate risks, assessing risks and adaptation options, starting with existing policies and plans, broadening constituencies beyond environment agencies, managing strategy conflicts, learning from projects and recognizing their limitations, monitoring and learning are the foreseen strategic actions by regions in Bangladesh for effective mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into regional development planning in the years to come.

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Johnson, Sarah, Jay Haney, Lia Cairone, Christopher Huskey, and Iyad Kheirbek. "Assessing Air Quality and Public Health Benefits of New York City’s Climate Action Plans." Environmental Science & Technology 54, no. 16 (2020): 9804–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c00694.

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Steinkraus, Arne. "A Synthetic Control Assessment of the Green Paradox: The Role of Climate Action Plans." German Economic Review 20, no. 4 (2019): e545-e570. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geer.12176.

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Abstract This paper extends the green paradox literature by providing empirical insights into its existence. To check the green paradox theory, I analyse the production of coal in four major coal-producing US states that announced a greenhouse gas action plan. To form a statement on whether there is a treatment effect caused by the green policy, I employ Synthetic Control Methods to calculate counterfactual coal production trajectories. I find that Montana experienced a high and statistically significant increase in coal production that is supported by a set of validity indicators. However, there is no evidence for a paradox in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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Boswell, Michael R., Adrienne I. Greve, and Tammy L. Seale. "An Assessment of the Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventories and Climate Action Plans." Journal of the American Planning Association 76, no. 4 (2010): 451–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2010.503313.

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Mendez, Michael Anthony. "Assessing local climate action plans for public health co-benefits in environmental justice communities." Local Environment 20, no. 6 (2015): 637–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2015.1038227.

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Kona, Albana, Fabio Monforti-Ferrario, Paolo Bertoldi, et al. "Global Covenant of Mayors, a dataset of greenhouse gas emissions for 6200 cities in Europe and the Southern Mediterranean countries." Earth System Science Data 13, no. 7 (2021): 3551–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3551-2021.

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Abstract. The Paris Agreement has underlined the role of cities in combating climate change. The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) is the largest international initiative dedicated to promoting climate action at a city level, covering globally over 10 000 cities and almost half the population of the European Union (EU) by end of March 2020. The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report notes that there is a lack of comprehensive, consistent datasets of cities' greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventories. In order to partly address this gap, we present a harmonised, complete and verified dataset of GHG inventories for 6200 cities in European and Southern Mediterranean countries, signatories of the GCoM initiative. To complement the reported emission data, a set of ancillary data that have a direct or indirect potential impact on cities' climate action plans were collected from other datasets, supporting further research on local climate action and monitoring the EU 27 (the 27 member states of the EU) progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 on climate action. The dataset (Kona et al., 2020) is archived and publicly available with the DOI https://doi.org/10.2905/57A615EB-CFBC-435A-A8C5-553BD40F76C9.

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Di Battista, Davide, Chiara Barchiesi, Luca Di Paolo, et al. "The Reporting of Sustainable Energy Action Plans of Municipalities: Methodology and Results of Case Studies from the Abruzzo Region." Energies 14, no. 18 (2021): 5932. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14185932.

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Territorial energetic and environmental planning provides operational solidity to the concept of sustainable development, in particular in energy-related issues, where recent attention to and social awareness of climate change are driving actions and policies at local and international levels. The goals of the United Nations Agenda 2030 can be reached through the strategy of glocalization, giving more responsibility to local administrations like municipalities. In this work, a scientific methodology is developed and validated to revise Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAP) and the monitoring phase of municipalities. The methodology starts from measured data in the territory considered and makes use of specific statistical models in order to estimate the needed data. The methodology considers the energy consumption of the main sectors: residential, transportation, tertiary, and commercial, with a particular focus on municipal competences (public lighting, urban transport, municipal fleet, etc.). Renewable energy is also considered due to its importance in local energy production. In order to go deeper into SEAPs, in this paper, the authors describe the quantitative analysis of the Baseline Emission Inventory, the quantification of the SEAP planning actions, and the definition of the Monitoring Emission Inventory, which is the final step of the planning process. This step was done for nine municipalities of the Abruzzo region with different characteristics (size, population, climate, geographical position, economy, etc.) in order to widen the results of the analysis and test the robustness of the methodology. Indeed, it gave a quantitative dimension to the primary energy consumption and CO2 emissions for 2018, compared with the 2005 baseline values, and the final results are related to the reduction commitments planned for 2020. All the municipalities were considered to have achieved this goal, surpassing the 20% emissions reduction. This validated methodology is also the basis for the development of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs), which integrate adaptation actions and mitigation ones.

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Swartout, Kevin M., Leila Wood, and Noël Busch-Armendariz. "Responding to Campus Climate Data: Developing an Action Plan to Reduce Campus Sexual Misconduct." Health Education & Behavior 47, no. 1_suppl (2020): 70S—74S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1090198120912386.

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Hundreds of U.S. institutions of higher education have conducted campus climate surveys recently to assess students’ experiences with sexual misconduct and perceptions of institutions’ related policies and procedures. Many of these surveys were implemented in response to the recommendation by the 2014 White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. The several options for campus climate surveys, ranging from free measures campuses can implement themselves to full-service survey implementation packages, have streamlined and facilitated the climate data collection process. Unfortunately, there is little guidance on how institutions can use and respond to their climate data. This article presents a framework that institutions could use to develop an action plan based on findings from their campus climate survey, predicated on a process that begins before the survey is implemented and lasts long after data collection concludes. Each institution of higher education is different, and individual campus action plans can vary based on campus structure, dynamics, and climate survey findings.

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Pereira, Vânia Rosa, Daniel Andrés Rodriguez, Sonia Maria Viggiani Coutinho, Diogo Victor Santos, and José Antônio Marengo. "Adaptation opportunities for water security in Brazil." Sustentabilidade em Debate 11, no. 3 (2020): 91–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.18472/sustdeb.v11n3.2020.33858.

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We sought to identify priorities and adaptation opportunities for water security across the various Brazilian biomes. With ever-growing demand and water-usage, future climate scenarios suggest that further water resources management constraints are to be endured throughout the next two decades. The unbalance between high-quality water demand and availability in a multisectoral usage context (e.g., domestic, industry, agribusiness) highlights the socio-ecological Nexus+ concept's relevance. In this context, the political and cross-institutional articulation and flexibility play a significant role in steering adaptative actions. These challenges in defining action plans, adequately addressed at a multiscale level with inherent climatic uncertainties, are yet to be overcome in Brazilian water resources management.

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Pereira, Vânia Rosa, Daniel Andrés Rodriguez, Sonia Maria Viggiani Coutinho, Diogo Victor Santos, and José Antônio Marengo. "Adaptation opportunities for water security in Brazil." Sustentabilidade em Debate 11, no. 3 (2020): 91–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.18472/sustdeb.v11n3.2020.33858.

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We sought to identify priorities and adaptation opportunities for water security across the various Brazilian biomes. With ever-growing demand and water-usage, future climate scenarios suggest that further water resources management constraints are to be endured throughout the next two decades. The unbalance between high-quality water demand and availability in a multisectoral usage context (e.g., domestic, industry, agribusiness) highlights the socio-ecological Nexus+ concept's relevance. In this context, the political and cross-institutional articulation and flexibility play a significant role in steering adaptative actions. These challenges in defining action plans, adequately addressed at a multiscale level with inherent climatic uncertainties, are yet to be overcome in Brazilian water resources management.

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Ojeda-Bustamante, Waldo, Ronald E. Ontiveros-Capurata, Jorge Flores-Velázquez, and Mauro Iñiguez-Covarrubias. "Changes in water demands under adaptation actions to climate change in an irrigation district." Journal of Water and Climate Change 8, no. 2 (2016): 191–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2016.028.

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Climate change will affect the water balance of irrigated agriculture. Therefore, farmers and irrigation managers should consider adapting to new scenarios. Changes in water demands in a Mexican irrigation district were studied using an irrigation-scheduling model. The impact on water demands of two potential adaptation actions, adjusting planting season and using longer-season varieties (LV), was estimated and compared with a baseline scenario. Two cropping plans (wet and dry) for the last 15 water years were considered. Cumulative and daily irrigation demands were estimated for each agricultural season and each adaptation action. The reference period (1961–1990) and three future climate projections (2011–2040, 2041–2070, 2071–2098) under A1B scenario were used. Results indicated that without adaptation water demands will decrease as temperatures increase and season lengths will shorten. However, as farmers respond with adaptation actions to maintain actual yields, water demand can be higher than non-adaptation action. The impacts of climate change on water demands depend on the adopted adaptation actions and have a greater effect on peak and cumulative demands. The water demands increased by 2.4% when LV were used and 16.3% when this is combined with adjusting planting season. Thus, adaptation actions should be chosen carefully to minimize future agricultural risk.

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Gray, Morgan, Elisabeth Micheli, Tosha Comendant, and Adina Merenlender. "Climate-Wise Habitat Connectivity Takes Sustained Stakeholder Engagement." Land 9, no. 11 (2020): 413. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land9110413.

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Well-managed and connected protected area networks are needed to combat the 6th mass extinction, yet the implementation of plans intended to secure landscape connectivity remains insufficient. The failure to translate planning efforts into effective action (i.e., the research-implementation gap) hinders our ability to conserve biodiversity threatened by ongoing climate change and habitat fragmentation. Sustained collaboration between researchers and practitioners to co-produce conservation strategies can bridge this gap by providing end-users with implementation guidance based on legitimate, relevant, and trusted information. However, few case studies capture methods for the co-production and use of climate-wise connectivity knowledge. Here we describe the framework for sustained engagement used by a multi-jurisdictional practitioner network to co-produce climate-wise linkages for the interior coastal ranges in Northern California. We found iterative co-production shaped ecological objectives, input data, analytical methods, and implementation priorities. Stakeholders used both co-produced and local socio-ecological (e.g., development threat, management priorities) knowledge to finalize corridor implementation plans. Priority corridors afforded greater climate benefit and were more likely to connect lands managed by participant organizations. Our results demonstrate how collaborative partnerships can bridge the gap between connectivity research and implementation. Lessons learned, outcomes, and future plans provide insights to advance landscape-scale resilience to climate change.

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Princz-Jakovics, Tibor. "Analysis of the policy background of transport related use of renewable energy." International Journal of Engineering and Management Sciences 4, no. 2 (2019): 124–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.21791/ijems.2019.2.15.

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The EU energy policy prioritizes the following principles: sustainability, competitiveness and security of supply and addresses the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as a priority. The related EU policy (including the White Paper on Transport) outlines these principles, identifies goals and opportunities for action. At company level methodological guidelines and standard procedures can be used to assess the carbon footprint of the organization, to generate efficiency goals and to prepare action plans. In the Hungarian policy framework, a comprehensive National Sustainable Development Framework Strategy defines the basic principles for the analysis of the sectorspecific or regional strategies. Sustainable Energy Action and Climate Plans (SECAPs) integrate energy and climate issues and include interventions and improvements for the better use of renewable energy sources in transport at municipal level. As a summary it can be stated that exploration of the policy background would needed to influence the use of renewable energy sources for transport and definition of the development goals can help economic organizations to transform their mobility patterns and reduce related carbon footprint.

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Journal articles on the topic 'Climate Action Plans'

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