ADAPTING CITIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ■ 205
Pune
No climate change motivators, poverty alleviation, disaster management
No dedicated climate change action, sectoral interventions in fl ooding, water supply, and transport (mitigation: BRT)
No dedicated action, preexisting sectoral initiatives, shifting of slums along fl ood-prone river bed, BRT system
Santiago
On national level, response to international commitments (OECD, UN)
No dedicated plan of action
No dedicated action, preexisting sectoral initiatives
São Paulo
Mayor brought back the idea from a C40 meeting
Disaster management, vulnerability analyses, “Plan Parque Lineares,” transportation, energy, waste management, health, building standards, land use, and resettlement
Adaptation linked to prominent concerns (transportation); mix of retreating, accommodating, and protecting; short-term and project orientation
Singapore
Adaptation as the continuation of a well-established long-term/coordinated planning approach
Infrastructure planning: drainage of recent tidal barrier and reservoir, transportation-coordinated land use, energy effi ciency (technology, audits, standards, behavior change), water supply (desalination, recycling), urban greening
Protecting, linking with science and technology
Source:
Authors’ compilation.
Note:
BRT = Bus Rapid Transit; CDM = Clean Development Mechanism; DFID = U.K. Department for International Development; OECD = Organi
sation for Economic
Co-operation and Development; UNFCCC = United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.