Urban adaptation to climate change: Climate services for supporting collaborative planning

Giordano, R.; Pilli-Sihvola, Karoliina; Pluchinotta, Irene; Matarrese, R.; Perrels, Adriaan

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2019.04.004

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“…A key element for the case study cities was the establishment of interdisciplinary partnerships and collaborations that facilitated the application of data, knowledge transfer and provided feedback to service design and outputs. This is consistent with the view that more intensive interactions between users and providers is a key element of IUS (Giordano et al, 2019). Communications -the type and format -were also important -whether it be to targeted user groups, such as in Toronto and Paris, or more broadly to the public in Hong Kong and Mexico City.…”

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Integrated urban services: Experience from four cities on different continents

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A B S T R A C TRapid urbanization combined with climate change necessitates new types of urban services that make best use of science and technology. The Integrated Urban Hydro-Meteorological, Climate and Environmental Services and systems are a new initiative from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that seeks to provide science-based integrated urban services supporting safe, healthy and resilient cities. Various cities have already started development and implementation of such Integrated Urban Services and successfully test and use them following specific requirements of local stakeholders. This paper demonstrates the novel concept and approach of Integrated Urban Hydro-Meteorological, Climate and Environmental Services (IUS) from a set of four case study cities: Hong Kong, Toronto, Mexico City and Paris, that use different IUS configurations with good existing practice. These cities represent a range of countries, climates and geophysical settings. The aggregate main joint similarities of the IUS in these cities and synergy of the cities' experience, achievements and research findings are presented, as well as identification of existing gaps in knowledge and further research needs. A list of potential criteria for identifying and classifying IUS demonstration cities is proposed. It will aid future, more detailed analysis of the IUS experience, and selection of additional demonstration cities. Introduction to urban data and services needsUrbanization is an ongoing phenomenon and a growing number of urban settings are particularly vulnerable to weather and climate events, including floods, storms, heat waves, sea-level rise and poor air quality. In addition, urban dwellers are the primary users of energy and resources, and contribute in a significant way to increasing atmospheric greenhouse gasses as well as air pollution. These alterations to the atmosphere from urban to global scales have consequent impacts on human health and the environment. But the urban setting also provides exciting opportunities for scientific advancement in the field of new observations, data assimilation, high resolution coupled modeling and user-specific systems and services for sustainable and climate smart cities.Most (90%) of the disasters affecting urban areas are of a hydro-meteorological nature and these have increased due to climate https://doi.

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“…The process of developing, reviewing and revising such plans is a complex combination of politics, technical inputs and engagements with communities of residents and other key city stakeholder groups. There are growing efforts to ensure that these urban planning processes integrate the best available scientific climate information in order to align them with international and national climate agendas to deliver on low carbon and climate resilience targets (Giordano et al 2020).…”

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Integrating Climate Risks into Strategic Urban Planning in Lusaka, Zambia

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Mwalukanga

2021

Climate Risk in Africa

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This chapter explores opportunities provided by strategic urban planning to mainstream climate risk considerations into the development decisions of city governments. It does so by describing the ways in which the climate-related information co-produced within the Future Resilience of African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project was integrated into the preparation of the Lusaka City Council Strategic Plan 2017–21. The chapter concludes by presenting four lessons emerging from the efforts at integrating climate information into the strategic planning process in Lusaka, Zambia: Lesson (1) Trust and relationships are key to sharing data and information needed to build a compelling case for managing climate risks; Lesson (2) Enable a variety of stakeholders to engage with climate information; Lesson (3) There needs to be an enabling legal, policy and financing framework; Lesson (4) Prepare to meet resistance; skilled intermediaries and city exchange visits help.

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“…Challenges in the funding of CS development have been identified by Soares and Buontempo, 2019 [7] in terms of having a user-driven approach, funding security and practical operationalization. The application and usefulness of CS provided by platforms and other providers are difficult to assess, but [9,23] have provided some interesting insights in their presentation of an evaluation framework for assessing the usefulness of CS to society. The authors emphasize the importance of factors like problem identification, the decision-making context, governance and socio-economic values to successful applications of CS.…”

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“…In this context, the forecasting aims at highlighting plausible development pathways for CS within our focal sectors in order to inspire the development of more user-oriented and tailored CS for potential high-demand sectors. Furthermore, the idea is that CS forecasting can provide a basis for targeted stakeholder capacity-building and can help with a stronger articulation of CS demand appropriate for climate risk management [23], and we employ novel tools to aid the process [25,26]. A key outcome of our CS potential forecasting is that more purveyors and buyers could see an advantage in entering specific sectoral markets, thus enabling the development of a stronger CS market with high-quality products with increased turnover and reduced risks [3].…”

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Accelerating Climate Service Development for Renewable Energy, Finance and Cities

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Wider applications of climate services within the management of climate risks face significant challenges. This paper presents a forecasting approach, to assess the development trends in climate service needs and thereby potential demand in key sectors that are essential to the green solution and will face a general growth in activity and key climate vulnerabilities towards 2050. These sectors are renewable energy, international climate finance, and cities. The geographical scope focuses on Europe, but global trends are included. We here suggest scenarios for growth in future climate services based on baseline development trends and policy scenarios reflecting future low-emission and SDG targets. Barriers and specific needs for climate service development within these sectors are discussed, and alignment of supply and demand within the climate service market is particularly emphasized. We find that several complexities influence the climate service market, including policy frameworks aimed at facilitating climate risk management as well as a lack of fit between the supply and demand sides of the market. Other barriers include uncertainties related to available climate information and socioeconomic climate risk information. Based on the forecasting, we find that substantial benefits can be seen with increased climate service development and deployment across the three sectors.

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Urban adaptation to climate change: Climate services for supporting collaborative planning

Cited by 23 publications

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Integrated urban services: Experience from four cities on different continents

Integrated urban services: Experience from four cities on different continents

Integrating Climate Risks into Strategic Urban Planning in Lusaka, Zambia

Accelerating Climate Service Development for Renewable Energy, Finance and Cities

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