Introduction to ICLEI

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Introduction to ICLEIs Cities for Climate
Protection CampaignTM
Nancy Skinner International Director, ICLEI
Cities for Climate Protection
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A bit about ICLEI

• An international association of local governments
  dedicated to a sustainable urban environment
• We are a collective voice for city government at
  national and international policy forums
• Organized in 1990 under the sponsorship of the UN
  Environment Program and the International Union
  of Local Authorities
• 400 local government members from 6 continents
  and 50 countries
• Governed by and for members

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Cities for Climate Protection CampaignTM

• Mission To build a worldwide movement of local
  governments who achieve measurable reductions in
  local greenhouse gas emissions, improve air
  quality, and enhance urban livability.
• Participation 500 municipalities worldwide
  representing 10 world GHG emissions
• Theme Climate action makes sense for cities

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Cities A part of the Problem
Urban Energy Demand
Energy Production
Waste managment
Rising GHG levels
Urban transportation
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Cities A Part of the Problem

• Local government operations emit GHGs
• Local government sets policy that impact on the
  GHG emissions of its citizens
• GHG emissions in cities come from
• energy use
• decomposition of solid waste and sewage
• transportation
• industrial production of goods

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Cities Higher emissions than per capita
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Cities A Part of the Solution

• Two complementary approaches
• improve Local Government operations
• set policies to change communitys habits
• Examples
• promote energy efficiency through procurement
• improve solid waste management
• recover methane, reduce waste, compost
• improve public transportation

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A Solution to More than Climate Change

• The co-benefits of climate protection
• save money
• reduce air pollution and traffic congestion
• improve public health and urban livability
• green the city
• boost local economic development

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CCP Worldwide Network
Region of CCP Cities and Councils
North America 220
Africa 10
Asia 45
South America 10
Europe 134
Australia 144
Total 558
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To Join CCP, Cities commit to a five-milestone
process

• Milestone 1 GHG baseline emission inventory and
  BAU forecast
• Milestone 2 Setting the reduction goal
• Milestone 3 Develop an action plan (identify
  measures)
• Milestone 4 Implement action plan (implement
  measures)
• Milestone 5 Monitor and evaluation

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ICLEI Support to Cities

• Technical assistance on all aspects of the CCP
• Provision of Software tool, with training and
  support
• Training workshops (inventory methodology,
  measures selection, measures implementation,
  etc.)
• Access to ICLEI best practices and case studies
• City-to-city exchange opportunities with cities
  in country and from around the world
• Assistance in sourcing and securing project
  financing for measures identified in the action
  plan
• Promotion of City initiatives to global community

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The CCP Software

• Help city prepare inventory, forecast, and action
  plan
• To quantify impacts of measures
• User friendly, windows-based
• Flexible, customizable to local conditions
  globally
• IPCC Standardized
• Used in over 300 Cities, emerging as a world
  standard product

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Climate Protection

• Effective
• Practical
• Cost effective