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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.