Durban, South Africa
The Municipal Climate Protection Programme (MCPP) was initiated in Durban in 2004 in order to understand local level impacts of climate change and to use this understanding to inform local level planning and decision making. Such an approach is critical in the Global South, because unless the local developmental consequences of climate change can readily be understood by local governments, it is likely that such issues will be superseded by a range of developmental challenges that are perceived to be more pressing i.e. poverty, lack of services and unemployment.
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