New platform on local climate action: drawing lessons for transformation

As momentum grows around the climate negotiations and the urban sustainable development goal, the V-LED project captures the learning process from city climate action promoted by governments in four countries. Join the project website to follow V-LED in Kenya, South Africa, Philippines and Vietnam.

Local governments are at the forefront of climate action. At the same time, national governments are leading the way reaching for significant climate commitments. But in order to deliver coordinated and meaningful contributions towards national climate targets, we need to connect these levels and learn from all.

On the occasion of the International Conference on Climate Action (ICCA), adelphi will be launching www.localclimateaction.org in order to harvest experiences emerging from local climate actions and the multi-level process driving them in the Philippines, Vietnam, South Africa and Kenya. The new website supports learning for climate action – a process of transforming relevant information and experience into knowledge and skills necessary for undertaking decisions and activities for low-emission development. 

Learning processes can be easily taken for granted, but in reality catalytic actions can be stimulated by a set of simple tools, such as exchange with peers, practice and stepping back for reflection. As part of the international project Vertical integration and learning for Low-Emission Development in Africa and Southeast Asia (V-LED) the website will capture and support this process in the four countries through blogs, videos and interviews, and involve key state and non-state climate actors.

adelphi is leading an international consortium in the implementation of V-LED, along with an international consortium of key organisations driving local action on the political agenda: UN Habitat, One World, Sustainable Energy Africa and the Institute for Law and Environmental Governance. The project aims to support better policy coordination among governance levels and promote the innovation potential for climate mitigation through thematic dialogues and exchanges of good practices on green growth and low emission development. These are all learning processes that should be managed and garnered to effectively drive transformation. The platform will offer a space for reflection and observation on how this process works in different national contexts. The project is supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety as part of its International Climate Initiative (IKI) - mitigating greenhouse gas emissions area.

www.localclimateaction.org