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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"climate action plan"”.
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City of San Luis Obispo: Community and Municipal Operations 2005 Baseline Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
… of AB 32 in 2006 initiated the need for city planners in California to consider the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions at the community level in order to develop policies and programs to reduce emissions in the future. Although local jurisdictions are not required to quantify and …
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Individualizing Climate Action Plans in Southern California
… California city, is under severe threat from climate change. Sea level rise, flooding, extreme heat, and environmental pollution all pose risk to the city and especially its vulnerable residents. This thesis has taken an environmental justice lens and applied it in analyzing Imperial Beach’s …
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Leading Climate Action Planning: A Case Study of Local Community Practices
<p>Given the increasing rate of anthropogenic climate change and the resulting climate impacts that communities around the world will be coping with over the next century, it is becoming increasingly important that communities, cities, and regions begin to develop climate action plans that will …
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CO₂ mitigation costs for Canada and the Alberta Oil Sands
The threat of climate change proposes difficult problems for regulators and decision-makers in terms of uncertainties, varying exposures to risks and different attitudes towards risk among nations. Impact and cost assessments aim to alleviate some of these difficulties by attempting to treat the …
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Climate ready Boston? : identifying indicators to evaluate the City of Boston's efforts to implement its climate change adaptation initiatives
As a leader in municipal climate change adaptation, the City of Boston has recently updated its climate projections, completed a climate vulnerability assessment, and identified several resilience initiatives. To understand whether these initiatives are leading to a less vulnerable, more resilient …
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Financing Inclusive Resilience: Beyond the Economics of Infrastructure in Accra, Ghana
… entrench existing socio-economic inequalities. Climate-related disasters alone cost the city US$118 million in annual losses (CDRI, 2023), disproportionately affecting informal settlements. Infrastructure financing remains underfunded: the city needs US$37.9 billion annually to meet …
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How Are American Cities Planning for Climate Change? An Evaluation of Climate Action Planning in Chicago, IL and Portland, OR
<p>Contending with a changing climate presents a necessary push for planning. Although climate change is considered a global environmental problem requiring a global commitment and trans-national action, more and more, policymakers are recognizing the vital need for action at the local level. In …
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Leadership strategies employed in the public sector for promoting urban climate transition: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… a global compact between nations to act on climate change, cities have emerged as interesting locations for studying climate leadership due to the failure at the national scale to translate adequate climate actions to meet the goals set. Cities have served as important agents in governance …
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Environmental and economic impacts of UIUC food purchasing
… The American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a voluntary effort through which signatories have agreed to perform baseline carbon inventories and publish climate action plans with emission reduction targets. UIUC’s Climate Action Plan, iCAP, calls to increase the …
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Analysis of the Intended Implementation Strategies of Municipal Climate Action Plans
In the United States, many cities have adopted Climate Action Plans (CAPs) to outline strategies to achieve emissions reduction targets. This research focuses on analyzing gaps, strengths, and weaknesses of the actions included in municipal climate action plans to achieve carbon reduction targets …
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(Re)framing sustainable transitions: perspectives from a city in the global South
… years in the City, embedded in its Energy and Climate Change Unit. This provided invaluable access to the tacit knowledge of practitioners and a unique view into the internal workings of the City. The results of this field-work have implications for sustainable transition theory. In the City, …
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Development of a methodology and modelling toolkit to aid carbon neutrality planning in industrial manufacturing
… heuristic, bottom-up method of considering interaction effects between emissions-reduction measures based on industrial processes. In response, the overarching aim of this thesis is to develop a methodology and a modelling toolkit with consideration of interaction effects to aid Irish industrial …
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Advancing a gendered approach to climate adaptation in the metropolitan cities of Cape Town and Ethekwini
Background: Anthropogenic climate change has been on full display in recent years. Since June 2021, global news has regularly featured reports of heatwaves in the Pacific North-West of America, floods in Germany and China, and droughts in South Africa. July 2021 was significant in South Africa in …