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ISET is the lead facilitation partner working with country-level partners and partner organizations to support 10 Asian cities across Vietnam, India, Indonesia and Thailand in developing climate resilience strategies under the ACCCRN initiative by 2012. The objectives of the ACCCRN program include:
- Test and demonstrate a range of actions to build climate change resilience in cities
- Build a replicable base of lessons learned, successes and failures
- Assist cities in developing and implementing a climate change resilience building process
- Build the capacity of cities to continue climate change resilience building activities
ACCCRN Cities:
Vietnam:
India:
Indonesia:
Thailand:
Human-induced climate change, in conjunction with environmental degradation, will have unavoidable effects on cities. UN-Habitat estimates that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050, and approximately 60% of the growth is expected to take place in Asia. Climate change will lead to warmer temperatures, greater variability in local conditions, and changes in the frequency, intensity, and location of precipitation and storms. Medium-sized cities are growing particularly rapidly and lack the resources of larger, more established cities to address the compounding challenges of climate change, urbanization, poverty, and environmental degradation. How will these cities manage the stresses and respond to the inevitable shocks and surprises of climate change while assuring the wellbeing of their growing populations?
Although it is not possible to predict with absolute certainty the exact nature of climate impacts and resulting challenges each city will face, the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) helps cities and their citizens build flexible and dynamic systems and institutions that identify and respond to the challenges climate change poses to urban areas. ACCCRN is a cutting edge research and urban climate resilience action program being piloted in 10 cities in Asia. Through collaboration between outside experts, national partners, local governments, and other organizations, ACCCRN enables each partner city to confront the complexities of climate change and develop the local capacity to address their specific challenges.
Cities engaged in the ACCCRN process will be able to anticipate how their vulnerabilities will be exacerbated and altered by climate change, identify urban populations most affected by changing conditions, and develop climate resilience strategies and actions to meet the most serious climate impacts. Poor and vulnerable populations within each city are already challenged by urbanization and environmental degradation and have the potential to be further marginalized by centralized planning processes. Therefore, ACCCRN is engaging multiple community-based organizations and vulnerable stakeholder groups, as well as local governments, from the outset of the urban resilience planning process. ACCCRN is comprised of key stakeholders in each city, national partners in each country who are familiar with the climate change and disaster risk reduction policies of their countries, and international experts. ACCCRN partners are committed to building urban climate resilience as a continual process, realizing that as the climate begins to change, their cities, as well as their climate response, will need to constantly evolve. ACCCRN is intended to build local capacity and ownership to ensure that resilience plans, strategies, and actions are sustainable and can advance after the formal program ends.
ISET is the lead facilitation partner working with country-level partners and other international partners to support project cities through the Shared Learning Dialogue (SLD) process that will identify resilience-building activities; facilitate the development of replicable processes, methodologies, and strategies for adapting to climate change in urban settings; and support cities in developing proposals and disseminating results from their analyses in ways that inform climate adaptation at local, national and global levels. Other partners in ACCCRN include:
For additional information about what has been accomplished so far in ACCCRN, please download the publication: ACCCRN – Responding to the Urban Climate Challenge
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