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Global Project
“Cities Fit for Climate Change”
Best practice and lessons learned
‘This project is part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The German Federal Ministry for the
Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU) supports this Initiative on the basis of a
decision adopted by the German Bundestag. The project also cooperates with the German Ministry of the
Interior, Building and Community (BMI).’
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Cities Fit for Climate Change
• City: Urban development |
Urban planning | Urban
Design
• Climate Change: Mitigation |
Adaptation
• Financing: Climate | Local
Funding: BMU, International
Climate Initiative
Time Frame: 11/15 – 06/19
Locations: Germany and 3
partner countries ©
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India:
Ministry of Urban
Development
Chile:
Ministry of Housing
and Urbanism
South Africa:
Ministry of Co-
operative
Governance and
Traditional Affairs
Political partners:
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© G
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Compilation of good
examples and knowledge
products
II
Analysis and
development of climate-proof
urban development strategies in
three partner countries:
Chile, India and South Africa
III
Policy advice and international agenda
setting
Project aim:
Selected cities
apply a climate-
proof urban
development
approach.
Advisory services to German Ministries
Focal areas
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More information about the project
Video: https://www.international-climate-
initiative.com/de/nc/mediathek/videos/film/sh
ow_video/show/cities_fit_for_climate_chang
e/
Project website: https://www.giz.de/de/weltweit/43392.html
International Climate Initiative: https://www.international-climate-
initiative.com/de/
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Climate-proof Urban Development
• ‘Climate proofing’ includes methods, instruments and procedures that ensure
that plans, programmes and strategies, as well as the associated investments
towards the current and future impacts of climate change will be made resilient
and adaptable, and that they also aim for the corresponding plans, programmes
and strategies to take into account the aim of climate change mitigation -
Birkmann and Fleischhauer, 2010
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WATER
ENERGY
HEALTH &
SANITATION
WASTE
TRANSPORT
URBAN
GREEN
URBAN
PLANNING
INTEGRATED
HOUSING
Integrated urban planning and climate change
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PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES OF CLIMATE PROOF URBAN
DEVELOPMENT
13.03.2019
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Lessons learned
Governance and Management Policies and Strategies
• Foster a strong political leadership
• Promote cross-sectoral collaboration
within the administration
• Political participation: Involve
external actors
• Ensure transparency in planning to
create legitimacy
• Pursue rural-urban/regional
cooperation on equal terms
• Enhance relationship with regional
and national governments
• Integrate adaptation and mitigation
into relevant plans and strategies
• Formulate new climate-related
strategies and policies
• Promote strategic communication
for specific target groups
• Enable monitoring and evaluation
• Identify financing/funding streams
and options
• Integrate global, national, regional
and local strategies and policies
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Lessons learned
Measures: From Policy to Action Capacity Development
• Formulate an action plan
• Prioritise spatial measures
• Foster local knowledge and
private/civic engagement
• Secure sound financing
• Sensitize target groups
• Monitor and evaluate actions
• Individual level: Create knowledge
(training) among municipal staff
• Organizational level: Collect and
use knowledge on climate-proof
urban development
• Societal level: Educate and raise
awareness
• Vertical capacity: Capacity building
should also be undertaken bottom-
up rather than top-down
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Chennai, India
© GIZ/Amina Schild
Buckingham Canal Ideas Competition
• Rehabilitation of a selected stretch of the Buckingham
Canal
• Participatory urban design approach for making the
canal a livable place for the residents of Chennai
• “5 senses” awareness walks with stakeholders and
general public (website)
• Community engagement meetings to generate interest
and ownership for the canal
• 3 winning teams developing
their ideas further for
implementation in cooperation
with local authorities
© GIZ/Amina Schild
© GIZ/Amina Schild
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Santiago de Chile
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Santiago (Metropolitan region)
Integrated Climate-Proof
Planning
• Creation of a Metropolitan
Climate Change Platform with
a wide range of actors at
different governance levels as
learning events
• Development a climate-proof urban development
methodology captured in a tool-box on ‘integrated
climate-proof planning’
• Support to local projects - neighbourhoods of
Providencia and Matadero testing of
methodology on regeneration of public space
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Durban: Climate Resilient Implementation Plan for SDF
13.03.2019
climate-
proof
urban
planning
Integrating Durban Climate Change
Strategy into Spatial Development
Framework (SDF)
itemised implementation plan of all the
relevant climate related development
projects (water, sea level rise, energy, food security,
transport etc.)
Developed through participatory
approach of cross-departmental CFCC
steering committee
Objective:
Recommended changes
to the SDF and lower
order plans by sector
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Durban: Urban Design Climate Change Lab for Isipingo Urban Regeneration
Assessing vulnerabilities
eg. Flooding
Scenario development for
2050 using best practice
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Durban: Urban Design Climate Change Lab for Isipingo Urban Regeneration
Scenarios developed for critical
sites
Best solutions provided for
adapting existing design
framework eg. Local area Plan
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