Case studies and Trends in action

Throughout the year, the Observatory publishes case studies and trends in action, addressing issues of mitigation, adaptation, circularity, biodiversity, water and climate finance at the international, national, regional and local levels, and at the crossroads of national policies and non-state actions.

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Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
Building
Energy
Industry
Mobility
Waste Management
Region
Mitigation
Energy

Occitania • Multilevel governance in the region

In 2020, the Occitania region adopted its new spatial, sustainable development and equality plan [...]

2021
City
Mitigation

Mexico City • MERCI-CO2, an example of atmospheric accounting of emissions

MERCI-CO2 is a Franco-Mexican research project that aims to measure CO[...]

2021
City
Mitigation

Manchester • A local carbon budget for the city

With the support of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the Manchester Climate Change[...]

2021
City
Mitigation

Bariloche • Sustainable tourism and climate action

The city of San Carlos de Bariloche, or simply Bariloche, is located in Northern Patagonia, an[...]

2021
Region
Adaptation
Mitigation

Bahia • Mitigation and adaptation through multilevel governance

In the process of renewing its Climate Policy, Bahia wished to reactivate the "Ba[...]

2021
Region
Biodiversity
Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

Sindh • Restoring mangroves to augment carbon sinks in the Indus Delta

In 2020, Pakistan’s Prime Minister announced a ‘blue economy policy’ for P[...]

2021
Region
Biodiversity
Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)

Cardamoms • Involving local communities to protect the Cardamom range

Spread over 20,000 km2 in the southwest of Cambodia, the Cardamom range is [...]

2021
City
Mitigation
Energy
Mobility

Tokyo • Hydrogen fuels the flame of the Tokyo Olympics

In 2017, Japan was one of the first countries to adopt a national hydrogen strategy in whi[...]

2021
City
Mitigation
Mobility

Dakar • Decongesting traffic to meet the challenge of sustainable urban mobility

Dakar is home to 25% of Senegal’s population, while occupying le[...]

2021
City
Mitigation
Mobility

Bogotá • Soft and electric mobility: the transformation of the transport system

In April 2021, the municipality of Bogotá presented a 2020-2050 [...]

2021
City
Circularity
Industry

Paris Good Fashion • Making Paris the capital of sustainable fashion

The association Paris Good Fashion (PGF) was founded in 2019 under the impul[...]

2021
Country
Circularity
Mitigation
Industry

Norway • The Longship Project: CCS to decarbonise heavy industries

In 1996, Statoil, the Norwegian state-owned oil company, launched the first co[...]

2021
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