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Ahmedabad Climate Resilient City Action Plan: Executive Summary

Released during the Urban20 Mayoral Summit in July 2023, the “Ahmedabad Climate Resilient City Action Plan – Towards A Net Zero Future” serves as a comprehensive roadmap to address the local impacts of climate change for the U20 Chair city. This action plan follows ICLEI South Asia’s Net-Zero ClimateResilientCITIES Methodology and was developed under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation-funded CapaCITIES project.

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State of Cities: Towards Low Carbon and Resilient Pathways

Released during the Urban20 Mayoral Summit in July 2023, the State of Cities: Towards Low Carbon and Resilient Pathways report was prepared as a collaboration effort between the ICLEI South Asia and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and sheds light on the climate-related issues confronting 15 Indian cities from a global perspective. Through captivating graphics, the report presents a comprehensive overview of electricity consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy-related issues within these cities, while also highlighting the climate initiatives and strategies being implemented.

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LGMA Statements at the First Global Stocktake’s 3rd Technical Dialogue (GST TD1.3)

Participating in opening and closing plenaries—as well as roundtables on mitigation, adaptation, implementation, and holistic approaches (plus a poster session)—the LGMA highlighted the #Stocktake4ClimateEmergency as a key mechanism for lending local-level ground-truthing to the Global Stocktake and elevated the need for local-national cooperation, accelerated adaptation, and finance reform.

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RegionsAdapt Progress Report 2021-2022

Launched in 2015 at COP21 and coordinated by Regions4, RegionsAdapt is the pioneering initiative that brings together leading states and regions on climate change adaptation. Through data analysis from 32 regions paired with 8 qualitative interviews, the 2021-2022 report focuses on capturing the actions and progress of subnational governments to adapt to climate change risks.

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Synthesis Report on Adaptation Actions

The 2019 “Adaptation Book” gives an overview of adaptation actions actually implemented in the territories, in a selection of sectors and economic sectors, and finally available elements estimating investments and adaptation financing needs of non-state actors.

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Report Climate Change Adaptation in a Multi-level Governance Context: A Perspective from Subnational Governments

Climate action is undertaken by multiple actors across multiple levels of governance and for this reason climate governance has been established as a multi-level governance (MLG) process. But to what extent is MLG delivering climate-resilient outputs? What are the challenges that MLG brings, and how can subnational governments deal with and further address these challenges?

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Synthesis report on climate action by local and subnational governments

Local and subnational governments have demonstrated in 2019 an escalation of political and technical contributions to the global efforts in the fight against climate change. This report provides a synthesis of mitigation and adaptation progress elements through local governments’ initiatives and networks, case studies of cities and regions aligning their public policies to reach climate and urban development objectives, and “around the world in 80 climate initiatives” illustrating the trends of actions in 10 local public policies.

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From Talanoa Dialogue to NDCs: Shifting climate ambition through multilevel action

As national governments move towards the 2020 revision of the NDCs, the legacy of COP24 will drive the local climate advocacy agenda for 2019. COP24 in Katowice gave us a detailed rulebook on implementing the Paris Agreement and concluded the year-long Talanoa Dialogue, bringing local and regional governments into the consultation process. This report covers the key outcomes of COP24 and the 2019 Climate Advocacy Agenda.

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Leveraging subnational action to raise climate ambition

This synthesis report offers guidance and context around how national governments can leverage subnational climate efforts in support of national goals. Drawing on the outcomes of more than 60 multilevel dialogues – the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues – this document highlights the value of multilevel climate action, inclusive policy making and the Talanoa process.

Model outcomes from the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogue

These outcomes highlight the knowledge gained through the Dialogue process, and provide a model for organizing outputs.

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The Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues convene local, regional and national governments to drive multilevel climate action in a rapidly urbanizing world. Through these dialogues, local and regional governments are engaging in stocktaking efforts and helping strengthen climate action at all levels, from global to local.

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Sharing concrete outcomes from the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues contributes to the broader Talanoa process and climate negotiations through the LGMA constituency. It also shows the impact multilevel governance can have on climate action and policy at all levels.

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Local and regional governments have a key role in climate action and dialogues happening at the subnational, national and global levels. Local and regional governments are intent on advancing climate action across the world. They are transforming urban areas into low emission, climate resilient spaces that safeguard the long term interests of their citizens.

Model outcomes from the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogue

These outcomes highlight the knowledge gained through the Dialogue process, and provide a model for organizing outputs.

Talanoa Dialogues in Africa

Advancing coordinated action between national, subnational and international actors

Talanoa Dialogue in Brazil

In Brazil, the Talanoa Dialogue should focus on the implementation of the Nationally Determined Contribution – NDC (MMA, 2017)

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Talanoa Dialogue in Accra

The National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG)expressed their interestto undertake furtherTalanoa Dialoguesin the near future.

Get informed

Learn more about the Talanoa Dialogue and how cities and regions are contributing through multilevel climate discussions.

Talanoa is a traditional approach used in Fiji and the Pacific to engage in an inclusive, participatory and transparent dialogue (for more information, see decision 1/CP.23, annex II).

At COP21, a decision was made to convene a Facilitative Dialogue among Parties in 2018 to take stock of the collective efforts of Parties on the goals of the Paris Agreement, and to inform the preparation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Building on this mandate, it was decided to have this dialogue be known as the Talanoa Dialogue, launching it to start from January 2018 to culminate at COP24.

More information can be found in the following resources:

Talanoa Dialogues

UNFCCC landing pages on inputs to the Talanoa Dialogue

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability

ICLEI submission on behalf of the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues

Joint ICLEI-GIZ-UN Habitat

Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy

Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction

C40

Association Climate Chance

Future Ocean Alliance

Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT) and Paris Process on Mobility and Climate (PPMC)

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US Climate Alliance

State of California

FMDV for CCFLA Secretariat

International Association of Public Transport (UITP)

Sustainable Energy Policy Division, Environment Department, Nagano Prefectural Government

The Climate Group/Under2 Coalition

ICLEI and partners are hosting a webinar series to share updates and ensure coordination among the Local Governments and Municipal Authorities Constituency (LGMA) members and partners on the organization of Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues.

Webinars in 2018

21 February

First ICLEI webinar on Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues. See full powerpoint here.

21 March

Second ICLEI webinar on Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues. See full powerpoint here.

18 April

Third ICLEI webinar on Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues. See full powerpoint here.

16 May

Fourth ICLEI webinar on Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues. See full powerpoint here.

5 September

Fifth ICLEI webinar on Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues. See full powerpoint here.

26 September

Sixth ICLEI webinar on Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues. See full powerpoint here.

7 November

Seventh ICLEI webinar on Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues. See full powerpoint here.

28 November

Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) 8th Webinar Towards COP24. See full powerpoint here.

Webinars in 2019

23 January 2019

Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) COP24 Debriefing and towards COP25. See the full powerpoint here.

20 February 2019

Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) webinar towards COP25. See the full powerpoint here.

20 March 2019

Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) webinar towards COP25. See the full powerpoint here.

17 April 2019

Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) webinar towards COP25. See the full powerpoint here.

15 May 2019

Local Governments and Municipal Authorities (LGMA) webinar towards COP25. See the full powerpoint here.

Get involved

In this section…

During COP 23, LMGA interventions were delivered by:

  • Mayor of Bonn Ashok-Alexander Sridharan
  • ICLEI Senior Climate Advocacy Officer Jisun Hwang
  • LGMA Constituency Focal Point Yunus Arikan

The links to UNFCCC webcasts and interventions can be found below.