'Close to home': learning and lessons on climate compatible development

 

The battle for climate compatible development will be won or lost at the subnational level: in provinces, districts and cities. This is the starting point of the working paper newly released by Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability: Close to home: Subnational strategies for climate compatible development by Barbara Anton, Ali Cambray, Mairi Dupar and Astrid Westerlind-Wigstroem with Elizabeth Gogoi. 

 

The paper summarises lessons from the learning programme ‘Capturing and disseminating key lessons from CDKN’s experience on the successful factors and preconditions, drivers and barriers to subnational climate compatible development for the benefit of developing country decision-makers’, jointly carried out by CDKN and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. ICLEI South Asia is providing expert support to 4 CDKN-sponsored local projects in India and Sri Lanka to document their learning in a succinct manner as case studies as well as more detailed background papers.

 

In the publication, the authors explore the many successful strategies and measures for climate resilience and low carbon development that communities and leaders have pursued at the subnational level.  While there is no doubt that at this level there are distinct challenges (uncertainty of future climate data, intense local pressure to act etc…), there are unique opportunities too. Subnational decision-makers often have a sound understanding of climate trends in their area, based on first-hand experience and local and indigenous knowledge. They have a good sense of solutions that are effective in the local context and they have the ability to mobilise local resources for implementation, including people’s time and knowledge.

 

The authors continue by listing a number of effective strategies for subnational climate compatible development to respond to these challenges and build on these opportunities. These strategies yield promising results at the subnational level. However – the authors continue – considering the scale of the global climate change challenges, individual subnational initiatives alone do not achieve enough. It will take a global transformation in the way that society approaches development if we are to achieve a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. 

 

To download the paper – that  will be launched at CDKN’s session ‘Tackling Poverty and Climate Change in Cities‘ at the World Urban Forum in Medellin, Colombia on 10 April 2014 – click here.

 

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