Cities and Climate Change Initiative (C.C.C.I)

UN-HABITAT, through its SUD-Net: Cities and Climate Change (CCCI) is mobilizing local, national, regional and global partnerships in support of local governments to more readily respond to the climatic threats they face (Climate Change Adaptation) and take bold steps in reducing cities’ climate footprint (Climate Change Mitigation).

The first implementation phase (2008-2010) of SUD-Net-CCCI provides towns, cities, national governments as well as their stakeholders with pertinent information on climate change responses for human settlements. Four countries (Mozambique, Uganda, Philippines and Ecuador) were selected through a comprehensive demand-driven and participatory approach, with four cities (Maputo, Kampala, Sorsogon and Esmeraldas) piloting initiatives through local counterparts and networks.

Learning from these experiences, CCCI-Asia/Pacific was launched early 2010 to disseminate, replicate and up-scale these country and city experiences amongst UN-Habitat’s regional network of partners in China, Fiji, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Sri Lanka, Vanuatu and Vietnam, with 10 new cities carrying out participatory assessments of their vulnerabilities to climate change. Country level advocacy activities are being supported to highlight the importance of the urban sector in national climate change response policies and guidelines, supported by initiatives with Local Government Training Institutions and Universities in the region to mainstream climate response capacity-building into their support programmes and curricular.