World Bank Document

ADAPTING CITIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ■ 197

National
strategy for climate change

National

climate change action plan

Local/city
adaptation plan
Integrated National
Adaptation Project, planned
2008–13, implemented only
2007 ($400,000 World Bank
and Japanese cooperation)

Guidelines for a National

Climate Change Policy

(2002): estimate impacts,

protect high mountain

systems (water), adapt

to sea-level rise and to

changing epidemiological

patterns

Nonexistent, planned in

2008, not yet included

in the recently published

environmental policy

guidelines

The national climate plan
fl owed almost directly out of
the Western Cape plan

Approved 2008 Approved 2006

National Environmental
Policy 2006, National Action
Plan on Climate Change
passed in June 2008

Solar energy, energy

effi ciency, sustainable

habitat, conserving water,

sustaining the Himalayan

ecosystem, green India,

sustainable agriculture,

and strategic knowledge

platform for climate change

“Climate Change Agenda

2009–2012,” approved in

2009

Nonexistent National adaptation plan
addressing regional
adaptation in coastal zones

Nonexistent

National environmental
policy 2006

Approved

June 2008

Nonexistent

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