W4 Flashcards
What is capacity building?
catch all term
building an understanding of what climate impacts means depending on what the target audience is that we are building capacity for - what does that mean for people who are living and working in X city
How much of urbanised areas expected by 2030 remain to be built
60%
Why are cities important to consider?
- they are at the forefront of climate action - taking the initiative
- adpation is key part of the parish agreement to building resilience
- financing and skills required for urban adaptation are insufficient - requires engagement with the private sector
- capacity building for decision makers is required still
What is maladpation according to the IPCC AR6/
actions that may lead to increased risk of adverse climate-related outcomes including via increased ghg emissions, increased or shifted vulnerability to cc, more inequitable outcomes or dimished welfare, now or in the future. Most often, maladaptation is an unintended consequence
What is a resilience dividend?
the net social, economic and physical benefits achieved when designing initiatives and projected in a forward looking, risk aware, inclusive and integrated way
What are the key risks to consider in building ubran resilience?
- tackling urban challenges holistically
- resilience dividend
- capitalise on co-benefits of tackling and adapting jointly
- prioritse climate action that devliers multiple - e.g public health and economic - benefits
- urban adaptation is being mainstreamed, evolving from small, one-off projects to large-scale programmes
What is ecocystem-based adaptation?
Using nature based solutions - like blue and green infrastructure - to provide benefits from a range of ecosystem services
Can you speak to Berlin’s sponge city?
Main concept is keeping the rainwater in the city to evaporate and cool accordingly
–> vegetation, green roofs and ubran wet lands
nearly 44$ of the city is covered by forests
Canal has flora and fauna where appropriate - natural water filtration, swimming areas, prevention of untreated water into waterways after heavy rainfall
but not a perfect solution - in 2017 heavy rainfall in centries submerged
and requires a lot of potlicial will
What are some common success factors in implementing ecosystem based adaptation?
- Stakeholder engagement, including both private land owners and the wider public
- institutional arrangements, particularly those that foster cooperation between different agencies and stakeholders
- demonstration of benefits, including linking to landowners’ own experiences
- availability of financing
What are some of the limiting factors for ecosystem based adaptation?
- Stakeholders were not engaged
- Insitutional arrangments were too inflexible or created barriers
- the benefits were not demonstrated, or required long periods of research
- financing options were inflexible
What was San Antonio’s equity approach to cc?
= wanted to understand who the most vulnerable in the cities were and what were the challenges they faced
climate equity - understanding the vulnerable groups, who they are and how they use the city, challenges they face and what it means in terms of climate change - prioritising adaptation options
wanted to
- identify engagement gaps
- conduct a community scan of target areas
- engage community members
What were the risks identified in San Antonion?
- impacts of rising temperature were leading to higher mortality - esp. respiratory diseases
- heat-stress and access to water, heat-related morbidity
- impacts of extreme preciptation - vulnerable in transit - the homeless
What was the link between climate equity and food security in San Antonio?
SA had a number of food deserts throughout the city
- SA food bank haveded 200,000lbs of food but it was impacted by extreme heat, drought, and changing precipitation patterns, outbreaks of the American south caterpillar
- POlicy objective was to have the healthiest residents in the country by 2020
Food bank partnered with the national historical parks to use 45 access of parkland to grow food–> 500,000lbs of yield
What was the impact of the 2011 flooding in Thailand?
Impact on electronic and automotive industries - supply chains and price increases
Honda - 3 day week
Toyota - flooding dropped them from being 1st to 3rd in ranking of car manufacturing
Song- delayed the launch of their new camera
Nissan - diversified suppliers led to bounce back
idea of cascading effects around the world
What did Mars do with their food rice suppliers?
Worked with specalists to understand the climate limitations of growing rice associated with daily temperature, precipitation, water stress, and sea level rise
Worked out the adaptive capacity of stakeholders - and their ability to improve adaptive capacity in terms of market demand, legal requirements, resources and cross-sector collaboration
in this case it was the regional government and not the farmers that had the greatest capacity and power - they controlled water supplies to farmers
