India is one of the most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world.

Carbon Emission Inventory for 50 South Asian cities

Building a South Asian network for post-Kyoto negotiations

With global efforts to address climate change accelerating over the past decade, local governments have an important role to play as they are the most accessible level of government to citizens and are critical to implementing local climate actions.

The objective of the carbon emission inventory is to support South Asian local governments in understanding the contribution of their city’s carbon emissions and to develop regional consensus on local action plans to address broader climate change issues; building a network to contribute to the post 2012 international negotiation processes on climate change.

Consensus Building

Outcomes of the project will include City Energy Status Reports and Carbon Emission Inventories, which would be generated for about 50 large South Asian cities, along with a platform for local governments to generate a South Asian consensus on international environmental treaties for the formation of a realistic, robust and durable framework of commitments in the post-2012 period.

Moving from Local to Global

The project will also develop generic city action plans as a guiding framework for addressing climate change issues in the local context. Training programmes have been conducted and the process of data collection has started in most of the selected cities. A Local Government Delegation will be formed comprising of local leaders from all parts of the SA region and linked with the World Mayors Council on Climate Change (WMCCC) to initiate the international negotiation process (at COP-14 and COP-15) and the parallel national dialogues. Information regarding the events (registration etc) has been circulated to all of the selected cities.