World Bank Document

212 ■ CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE

TABLE 8.6Response Capacity (Tools)City

Information fl

ows,

awareness creation, and communication

Links to existing urban policy instruments

Knowledge basis on which plan was prepared

Implementation (compliance mechanisms, monitoring)

Financing

Bogota

Existing emergency funding budget

Cape Town

Dedicated awareness campaign: newspaper, advertisements, public meetings, capacity building, newsletters

For water, expansion of existing sector policies

Water: Western Cape Reconciliation Strategy Study (25-year horizon); sea-level rise: risk assessment project to model and understand impacts

Water: comprehensive water by-laws include a range of tools: right to set water price, install water meters, enforce water restriction; making use of breakwaters compulsory

Discretionary budget

Delhi

No dedicated climate change awareness programs, several “standalone” environmental awareness programs; National Action Plan proposed creation of

Delhi Master Plan 2021, JNNURM

IPCC reports, research at Tata Energy Research Institute, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, National Mission on Strategic Knowledge to be set

Mix of regulatory instruments (such as solar water heaters made mandatory in all buildings on area of more than 500 squa

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meters, digging of bore wells for individual use
Mitigation efforts funded through carbon market fi nancing and CDMs, private participation to be encouraged through venture funds; Air Ambience Fund