Event:      MEETING ON CITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Organized by: 

- British High Commission

- British Council 

- National Institute of Urban Affairs 

- ICLEI

Date: 4 March 2008

Venue: Conference Room, NIUA, New Delhi

ICLEI South Asia in collaboration with British High Commission has initiated a project on "Carbon Emissions Reduction through City Level Local Action Plans by Integrating Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE) Measures into City Activities". The project is in partnership with British Council, India and is funded through the Global Opportunities Fund (GOF). This project will contribute significantly in the mitigation of Climate Change and Ensuring Energy (CCE) security objectives, through local level actions. The project will help local institutions develop initiatives to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality.

A meeting on the project was jointly organised by British High Commission, British Council, NIUA and ICLEI at NIUA on March 4, 2008. Participants included representatives from Rajkot, Bhopal, Indore, Thane, Vijayawada and few other Municipal Corporations.

The meeting discussed:-

• linkage between urbanisation, expanding cities and thus impact on climate change;
• role and options city can consider towards mitigation; and
• need for action and importance of renewable energy and energy efficiency measures into city level action.

The project will work with two model cities and it will extend to other cities over time.