{"id":2187,"date":"2018-05-29T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeaftercarbon.net\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T15:52:55","slug":"what-your-city-doesnt-have-a-plan-for-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/2018\/05\/what-your-city-doesnt-have-a-plan-for-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"What? There are Cities that Don&#8217;t Have Plans for Climate Change?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new, first-ever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-examined-885-european-cities-plans-to-tackle-climate-change-heres-what-we-found-95733\">study of climate planning by 885 European cities<\/a>\u00a0reveals several patterns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than a third of the cities&#8211;local authorities&#8211;have done <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NO<\/strong><\/span> climate planning for either GHG reduction or adaptation&#8211;and nearly 9 out of 10 cities have no adaptation plan.<\/li>\n<li>In nations without any national government mandate to conduct climate planning, it&#8217;s mostly the largest, and presumably more affluent, cities that have done climate planning.<\/li>\n<li>In nations that have no local climate planning mandates, cities that participate in city-based networks, such as the European Union Covenant of Mayors, are more likely to have produced a climate plan.<\/li>\n<li>Few cities have integrated their GHG-reduction and climate adaptation plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would be no surprise if these patterns are present in the US, where there is no national mandate and few state-government mandates for climate planning. Of the nearly 2,000 municipalities with more than 25,000 people, it&#8217;s likely from scattered data that only 10-20 percent, a few hundred of them, have taken steps to develop adaptation plans.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to flagging the frustrating slowness of urban adoption of climate planning&#8211;it&#8217;s nearly 30 years since the first small set of cities started to tackle their GHG emissions&#8211;the European study and its likely US counterpart underscore the challenge of aligning policies across levels of government. The willingness of some cities to drive ambitious climate-change planning has attracted worldwide attention, but an important basis for making sustained, high-impact progress on both mitigation and adaptation is the alignment of policies at the national, state, sub-national region, and local levels. Cities can&#8217;t do everything by themselves. Nations can&#8217;t just order cities to plan and act.<\/p>\n<p>This new study suggests a huge Policy Alignment Gap in Europe, and it&#8217;s no doubt worse in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new, first-ever\u00a0study of climate planning by 885 European cities\u00a0reveals several patterns: More than a third of the cities&#8211;local authorities&#8211;have done NO climate planning for either GHG reduction or adaptation&#8211;and nearly 9 out of 10 cities have no adaptation plan. In nations without any national government mandate to conduct climate planning, it&#8217;s mostly the largest, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,22,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in4c.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}