The Urban Climate Project—Building Clean
and Efficient Cities
Through the Urban Climate Project, ICLEI-SA with support from NIUA, assisted two project cities to implement infrastructure projects through technical and to some extent financial support for pilot interventions by including cleaner and efficient technologies and also to model GHG deflections to showcase benefits.
Building blocks to clean and efficient cities: project process
City selection:
Select two cities that plan to invest a minimum of 200 million USD over the next five year
period, and have strong political will to challenge status quo development thinking
Share knowledge:
At regional and national workshops, through exchanges between the cities,
through representation of the project cities at various national and global
platforms with a focus on exchange of knowledge with other JNNURM cities
Half of India’s population is likely to be living in cities and
urban areas by 2050. The subject of clean and efficient
energy has gained relevance lately in developing countries,
as a tool for sustainable development, and improvement of
public access to basic services and amenities.
The end of 2005 saw the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru
National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), by the
Indian federal government (through the Ministry of
Urban Development, MoUD), mainly to “encourage
reforms and fast track planned development of identified
cities with focus on efficiency in urban infrastructure and
service delivery mechanisms, community participation,
and accountability of urban local bodies (ULBs)/parastatal
agencies towards citizens”.
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an
international association of local governments as well as
national
and regional local government organizations who
have made a commitment to sustainable development. ICLEI
provides technical consulting, training, and information services to
build capacity, share knowledge, and support
local government in the
implementation of sustainable development at the local level. The basic
premise is that
locally designed initiatives can provide an effective and
cost-efficient way to achieve local, national, and global
sustainability objectives.
The main implementing partner of the Urban Climate project is ICLEI South Asia, along with ICLEI USA.
United States Department of State: Asia Pacific Partnership
National Institute of Urban Affairs
