Cities and regions 5-year vision

General

Name of initiative Cities and Regions' 5-year vision
LPAA initiative Yes
NAZCA Initiative Yes
Website address http://newsroom.unfccc.int/media/567513/action-statement_endorsers_english.pdf
Related initiatives
Starting year 2015
End year 2020
Secretariat Sophie Vieillefont, COP21 negotiation team -Cities&Regions,

e-mail: sophie.vieillefont@cop21.gouv.fr; and Lucie Guillet, COP21 negotiation team -Cities&Regions, e-mail: lucie.guillet@cop21.gouv.fr

Organisational structure
Geographical coverage Global
Name of lead organisation LPAA
Type of lead organisation Other intergovernmental organization
Location/Nationality of lead organisation France

Description

Description This Initiative succeeded in mobilising many actors around a declaration : 'The Paris Action Statement - Transforming local and regional climate action."

The Paris Action Statement can be downloaded at: http://newsroom.unfccc.int/media/567513/action-statement_endorsers_english.pdf

Objectives Four priorities until 2020:

1. To increase the scale and number of cities and region's climate action and plans tor reduce emissions from high emitting sectors while enhancing adapation to climate change. 2. To build climate resilience in as many cities and regions as possible with special attention paid to the most vulnerable cities, regions and populations. 3. To scale up financing for local and regional investments. 4. To reinforce action-oriented dilogue, partnerships and policies between all levels of government (national, regional, provincial, urban and comunity-levels).

Activities
One or two success stories achieved

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative Implementation
Activity of initiative Goal setting (ex-ante)
Indicators
Goals Four key objectives by 2020:

1. To increase the scale and number of cities and regions’ climate action and plans to reduce emissions from high-emitting sectors and enhance adaptation to climate change. Specifically: o Coverage should include diverse local and regional contexts across all continents; o Ambition will be set with a view to contribute to a below 2°C pathway; o Special emphasis will be placed on the metropolitan areas facing rapid urbanisation to leverage their capacity to design and implement ambitious resilient, resource efficient and low carbon planning strategies.

2. To build climate resilience in as many cities and regions as possible with special attention paid to the most vulnerable cities, regions and populations;

3. To scale up financing for local and regional investments; Specifically: o Accelerate financial support to local integrated policies, infrastructure strategies and programmes towards climate mitigation and resilience across all continents; o Improve access to sustainable finance for cities and regions.

4. To reinforce action-oriented dialogue, partnerships and new policies between all levels of government (national, regional, provincial, urban and community-levels). Specifically: o Promote the scaling-up and acceleration of relevant subnational sectorial alliances; o Develop new multi-level international partnerships; o Enhance national government participation in existing international initiatives; o Support the exchange of knowledge and technology transfer between cities and regions around the world, including through decentralised cooperation.

Comments on indicators and goals Only a declaration
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals We succeded in mobilising many actors around a declaration : The Paris Action Statement

Only a declaration

How are you tracking progress of your initiative
Available reporting

Participants

Participants Number Names
Members 32  
Companies 0
Business organisations 4 Servicios Ambientales S.A (Bolivia),  Bloomberg Philanthropies (USA),  Global Infrastructure Basel (Switzerland)
Research and educational organisations 0
Non-governmental organisations 17 Agence Française de Développement (France),  Columbian Adaptation Fund (Colombia),  Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra (Finland),  Council of European Municipalities and Regions (Belgium),  Energycities (Germany),  Eurocities (Belgium),  FMDV (Spain),  International Association of Francophone Mayors (France),  NRG4SD=Regions4 (Belgium),  United Cities and Local Governments (Spain),  World Council on City Data (USA),  West African Economic and Monetary Union (Nigeria),  UN Capital Development Fund - UNCDF (USA),  UN Habitat (USA),  United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - UNISDR (Switzerland).
National states 4 Canada,  France,  Peru,  Japan
Governmental actors 0
Regional / state / county actors 3 Catalonia (Spain),  State of Rio (Brazil),  Rhone Alpes Region (France).
City / municipal actors 3 Djilor (Senegal),  Miraflores (Peru),  Paris (France).
Intergovernmental organisations 0
Financial Institutions 1 World Bank (USA)
Faith based organisations 0
Other members 0
Supporting partners 0
Number of members in the years
2015
16
2018
16
Have only national states as participators No


Theme

Transport Agriculture Forestry Business Financial institutions Buildings Industry Waste Cities and subnational governments Short Term Pollutants International maritime transport Energy Supply Fluorinated gases Energy efficiency Renewable energy Supply chain emission reductions Adaptation Other Resilience Innovation Energy Access and Efficiency Private Finance
No No No No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No
Last update: 14 October 2019 08:34:50

Not only have national states as participators