Shimla, Jamnagar and Bhubaneswar have been selected to participate in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network – Dissemination & Replication (ACCCRN-D&R) project
Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, ENVIRONMENT, Khordha June 7th. 2011, 12:49pmICLEI stands for ‘International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives’. Following is from a recent announcement.
Three Indian Members selected for Dissemination & Replication stage of ACCCRN project
May 02, 2011ICLEI South Asia is pleased to announce that three Indian cities, Shimla, Jamnagar and Bhubaneswar, all ICLEI Members, have been selected to participate in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network – Dissemination & Replication (ACCCRN-D&R) project on the basis of an Expression of Interest that was circulated to over 35 Indian cities.
The ACCCRN is made up of ten cities in India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, currently experimenting with various adaptation activities that together aim to improve the ability of these cities to withstand and prepare for the projected impacts of climate change. The ultimate objective of ACCCRN is to provide poor and vulnerable people with the ability to respond to these impacts in an appropriate way.
In order to achieve this, the program partners have developed a diverse range of effective approaches, processes, and practices to build urban climate change resilience which incorporate the priorities of poor and vulnerable communities in the network’s cities.The approaches taken are determined by the local needs and priorities of each city.
Initiated in early 2009, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the first two phases of the project have been completed. The third phase has now been launched with a focus on disseminating and replicating the lessons learnt and the approaches developed in the previous phases.
In this third phase, the learning, models, approaches and best practices developed across the 10 pilot cities of the previous phases will be supplemented with best practices from other approaches which build urban climate resilience. This will all be developed into a tool that can be adopted by other cities to develop Climate Resilience Strategy Plans. ICLEI’s South Asia and Oceania offices have been commissioned to implement the third phase of ACCCRN in the three Indian cities.
Read more about the project on the ICLEI South Asia website.
Following is from http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=12113 about the project.
As part of the Dissemination & Replication phase, a total of 3 Indian cities have be selected for the dissemination of this tool. The selected cities would receive training in the process of formulating Climate Resilience Strategy Plans, which would broadly include:
1. Undertaking vulnerability assessments
2. Undertaking climate projection assessments
3. Engaging stakeholders in the entire process to ensure social relevance and acceptance
4. Developing a Climate Resilience Strategy Plan document
5. Integrating the resilience strategy into urban planning and implementation processesICLEI SA along with ICLEI Oceania and ISET will replicate the learnings from the previous phases of ACCCRN initiative in 3 other cities. The various interventions are expected to target sectors like health, infrastructure, water, disaster, urban planning/development issues, services, disaster management and preparedness strategies.
The approach followed in the cities will be driven by local needs and requirements with the focus on developing resilience for the vulnerable communities from climate change impacts. ICLEI SA has been engaged to assist develop the methodology in a form suitable for the Indian context and to select and support the Indian cities during the trial period.
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June 8th, 2011 at 11:37 pm
I think as the city of Bhubaneswar grows it is essential that the three most important things on the government’s mind should be – infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. Otherwise just like other cities in India Bhubaneswar will have islands of prosperity (apartment complexes, office complexes with their own water treatment plants, sewerage systems, parks and recreation areas) connected by shoddy government projects (roads in a perpetual state of repair, bridges in all the wrong places, flyovers that are too narrow (just thought of the one near the airport), an almost non-existent system of public transport and highways where accidents are a common occurrence). Already one sees some of this scenario playing out in the city. There are areas in the city where apartment prices are going through the roof but at the same time public infrastructure is woefully lacking. Citizens of Bhubaneswar should start thinking about such things now before the city starts to develop at a rapid place. Once that happens it will be impossible to make any changes just like Bangalore, Gurgaon and other cities have discovered.