World Bank Document

208 ■ CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

TABLE 8.5Response Capacity (Actors)City

Lead agency

Principal participants

Coordination mechanisms

How participation is organized

Bogota

Mayor, Regional Autonomous Corp. of Cundinamarca

National Environment Council, Environmental District Secretariat, Emergency Prevention and Attention Directorate

Cape Town

City Environment Department

Local authority departments, provincial departments, consultant teams

Formation of technical working groups

Interactive workshops

Delhi

Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, mandated to take up action in core areas defi ned by the National Plan

Department of Environment, Department of Power, Public Works Department, Delhi Jal board (autonomous water management agency), Delhi Transportation Corporation, NGOs

At national level, prime minister’s advisory council on climate change provides overall coordination of action plans, lead agency for implementation is Ministry of Environment and Forests

Largely top-down, occasional meetings of core participants

Pearl River Delta Top tier of the hierarchy

(national government), National Leading Group to address climate change, headed by the Chinese premier, was set up in 2007 to draw up important strategies, policies, and measures related to climate change and to coordinate the solving of major problems

Supported by a regional governance system; in 2007, the state council called on all regions and departments to strictly implement the National Plan for Coping with Climate Change

Plan’s presence and mandate for regional application will motivate action at the local level; establishment of a regional administration system for coordinating the work in response to climate change; building local expert group on climate change