Case study Mitigation Strasbourg • A laboratory for aligning climate action with the SDGs Two years ago, the city and the metropole of Strasbourg (Eurométropole) started work on the localization of SDGs in order to use 2030 Agenda to analyse and guide their action. [...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Energy Slavutych • Reducing emissions through municipal energy management The last of the planned Soviet cities, Slavutych was built to house those displaced by the Chernobyl disaster. The city has been working to reduce its emissions, notably by imp[...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Rufisque • A localised food system to encourage demand for local produce Rufisque is a district of 500,000 inhabitants covering 2/3 of the area of the Dakar region and most of its agricultural land. The District Council of Rufisque is experimenting [...] Read more
Case study Adaptation Mitigation North Rhine-Westphalia • A participative climate governance strategy NRW's climate plan, adopted in 2015, aims to reduce its emissions by 55% in 2030 compared to 1990, and includes 154 measures, developed through an innovative participatory proc[...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Energy Industry Mobility Waste Management Palembang • Acting in the sectors of energy, transport and waste to reduce emissions The capital of South Sumatra province, Palembang is the second most populous city on the island. Energy production, which includes emissions from industry, transport and waste [...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Ontario • A snapshot of multilevel climate governance Ontario’s 2007 Action Plan on Climate Change established GHG emissions reduction targets (15% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% by 2050), replaced in 2015 by the Climate Change[...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Energy Occitania • Multilevel governance in the region In 2020, the Occitania region adopted its new spatial, sustainable development and equality plan (SRADDET), which aims to have 100% of final energy consumption sourced from ren[...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Mexico City • MERCI-CO2, an example of atmospheric accounting of emissions MERCI-CO2 is a Franco-Mexican research project that aims to measure CO2 concentration gradients and their evolution over time by deploying a dense network of CO2 sensors at gro[...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Manchester • A local carbon budget for the city With the support of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Manchester Climate Change Agency developed a carbon budget aligned with a 2°C scenario to support "Our M[...] Read more
Case study Mitigation Bariloche • Sustainable tourism and climate action The city of San Carlos de Bariloche, or simply Bariloche, is located in Northern Patagonia, and has a prominent tourism industry. Particularly of note are its plan for sustaina[...] Read more
Case study Adaptation Mitigation Bahia • Mitigation and adaptation through multilevel governance In the process of renewing its Climate Policy, Bahia wished to reactivate the "Bahia Forum on Global Climate Change and Biodiversity", composed of 14 governmental bodies and 14[...] Read more