City Based Climate Change Action Plans
Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration: Action Plan on Global Warming Mitigation 2007 – 2012
GHG emissions in Bangkok is expected grow from 42.65 million tons CO2 equivalent per year now, to as high as 48.69 million tons CO2 equivalent by the year 2012. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Action Plan on Global Warming Mitigation 2007 – 2012 aims to reduce future GHG emission by at least 15%. These actions, if implement properly, would yield total net GHG emissions in the year 2012 of 38.94 million tons CO2 equivalent, approximately 20% below BAU projections and better than Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s targets prior to the development of this Action Plan.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050020
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Climate Change Strategy - A Basic Policy for the 10-Year Project for a Carbon-Minus Tokyo
Tokyo’s Climate Change Strategy aims to reduce 25% of GHG emissions from 2000 levels by 2020.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200803270018
Singapore
Singapore’s National Climate Change Strategy
Singapore’s National Climate Change Strategy has not set any target for the GHG reduction, but has put forward following measures to reduce GHG: a) Increasing energy efficiency; b) Using less carbon-intensive fuels; and c) Increasing carbon ‘sinks’ such as forests.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050021
Melbourne, Australia
City of Melbourne: Greenhouse Action Plan 2006-2010
City of Melbourne: Greenhouse Action Plan 2006-2010 has set targets to reduce city’s emission by 50 percent by 2010 from 2006.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200711290151
Wellington City, New Zealand
Wellington City Council Climate Change Action Plan: Creating a Carbon Neutral Council and Community
Wellington City Council Climate Change Action Plan has set target to be carbon neutral by 2012, however the new community target has been set to reduce 80% GHG emissions by 2050 from the base year 2003.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050024
Nelson City, New Zealand
Nelson City Council’s Communities for Climate Protection Programme: Draft Local Action Plan
Nelson City Council’s draft local action plan set a medium term target of stabilising GHG emissions from corporate sector to that of 2004 and from community to that of 2001 by 2012. In the long term, the action plan has set target to reduce 40% GHG emissions from corporate sector from the base year 2004 and 40% from community from the base year 2001 by 2020.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050027
Darebin, Australia
Darebin City Council: Climate Change Action Plan
The Darebin City Council’s Climate Change Action Plan has set 20% GHG emission reduction targets in corporation emissions and community emissions on 1995 levels by 2010.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050032
Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Weathering the Change: The ACT Climate Change Strategy 2007-2025
The ACT Climate Change Strategy has a target of a GHG reduction by 60% of 2000 emission levels by 2050 and presented action plan 2007 – 2011 as a first step to meet the target.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050037
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050038
America
Calgary, Canada
Calgary Climate Change Action Plan
Calgary Climate Change Action Plan of Calgary has set emission reduction targets are set at two long-term intervals: 1) 20 percent below the 2005 level by 2020; and 2) 50 per cent below the 2005 level by 2050.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050012
Toronto, Canada
Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan: Moving from Framework to Action (Phase 1)
Toronto’s reduction targets for GHG emissions, from the 1990 levels of approximately 22 million tonnes per year for the Toronto urban area, are: a) 6% by 2012; b) 30% by 2020; and c) 80% by 2050.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050026
Ottawa, Canada
Air Quality and Climate Change Management Plan for the City of Ottawa
Air Quality and Climate Change Management Plan for the City of Ottawa has proposed for a 20% reduction in GHG emissions, relative to 1990 levels by 2012.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050028
Québec, Canada
Québec and Climate Change – A Challenge for the Future
The 2006-2012 Action Plan aims to reduce Québec’s GHG emissions by 10 Mt of CO2-equivalent, i.e. 1.5% under the 1990 level.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050017
Vancouver, Canada
The Cool Vancouver Task Force’s Community Climate Change Action Plan: Creating Opportunities
The Community Climate Change Action Plan for Vancouver has an emissions reduction target of six percent below 1990 levels by 2012 to reflect Canada’s commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050011
Hamilton City, Canada
Hamilton: Air Quality and Climate Change Corporate Strategic Plan
Hamilton has set out specific goals related to air quality and climate change as part of vision 2020 which includes 20 percent reduction in GHG emissions of 1994 levels in municipal operations and six percent of 1994 levels City-wide by 2020.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050033
Berkeley, USA
City of Berkeley Resource Conservation and Global Warming Abatement Plan
The City of Berkeley’s goal, prepared in 1998, aimed to reduce its GHG emission by 15 percent in the year 2010 which is twice the projected increase of 7.5% in the baseline forecast.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050016
Worcester, USA
City of Worcester, Massachusetts: Climate Action Plan
City of Worcester’s Climate Action Plan has a target to reduce 11% GHG emission reduction below 2002 levels by 2010. However, further measures proposed in the plan can lead to a municipal GHG reduction of approximately 43%.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050013
Seattle, USA
Seattle, a Climate of Change: Meeting the Kyoto Challenge: Climate Action Plan
Seattle’s Climate Action Plan aims at meeting or beating the Kyoto target: a 7 percent reduction by 2012 compared to 1990 levels, which means reducing GHG emissions about 680,000 tons.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050015
Los Angeles, USA
Green LA: An Action Plan to Lead the Nation in Fighting Global Warming
Green LA has target to reduce the City of Los Angeles' GHG emissions by 35% below 1990 levels by 2030.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050023
Bellingham, USA
City Of Bellingham: Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Climate Protection Action Plan
The City of Bellingham action plan recommends reducing 64% GHG emission from 2000 levels by 2012 and 70% by 2020 for city government and reducing 7% from 2000 levels by 2012 and 28% from 2000 levels by 2020 for the community.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050034
Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town Energy and Climate Change Strategy
The Cape Town Energy and Climate Change Strategy does not have target for GHG emissions but has committed renewable energy targets such as 10% renewable energy supply by 2020, and 10% of households with solar water heaters by 2010.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050042
Europe
Leicester, United Kingdom
City of Leicester: climate change strategy
City of Leicester: climate change strategy adopted a target of 50% reduction on 1990 levels of CO2 emissions by 2025.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200803270031
Brighton & Hove, United Kingdom
Climate Change Action Plan for Brighton & Hove
Climate Change Action Plan for Brighton & Hove has taken a target to reduce carbon emissions by 3.5% each year.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050014
Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford Climate Change Action Plan
Oxford Climate Change Action Plan has overall aim to achieve CO2 emission reductions above 60% by 2050 over the 2005 baseline emissions. This long term target is accompanied with the intermediate goals: a) 15% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2010; b) 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2015; c) 30% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020 and 40% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050009
London, United Kingdom
Action Today to Protect Tomorrow: The Mayor’s Climate Change Action Plan
In the 2004 Energy Strategy, the Mayor adopted for London the government’s national targets to reduce carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050 from 1990 levels. Furthermore, the Mayor’s 2006 draft ‘Further Alterations to the London Plan’ set out the following interim targets: a) 15 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2010; b) 20 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2015; c) 25 percent reduction from 1990 levels by 2020; and d) 30 per cent reduction from 1990 levels by 2025.
But, to prevent catastrophic climate change, the Mayor’s revised target for London is to stabilise CO2 emissions in 2025 at 60 percent below 1990 levels, with steady progress towards this over the next 20 years.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050022
Gloucester City, United Kingdom
Gloucester City: Climate Change Strategy
Gloucester City: Climate Change Strategy (July 2007 to 2010) has been prepared according to meet the target set by South West Regional Planning Guidance; i.e. 20% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2010 and production of at least 11% of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2010.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050025
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Local Authority Carbon Management Programme: Plymouth City Council’s Strategy and Implementation Plan (SIP)
City of Plymouth aims to reduce annual carbon footprint to 20% of the baseline by 2013 with the assistance of a proactively managed, corporate Carbon Reduction Plan.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050035
Coventry, United Kingdom
A Draft Climate Change Strategy for Coventry
The draft Climate Change Strategy for Coventry includes a headline target for the city to reduce CO2 emissions by 67% by the year 2050, using 2003 as the baseline year.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050036
Exeter, United Kingdom
Exeter Climate Change Strategy
Exeter Climate Change Strategy aims towards reducing Exeter’s CO2 emissions by 30% by 2020 (184 kilotonnes per annum) from the 1990 baseline.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050039
Peterborough, United Kingdom
A Climate Change Strategy for Peterborough
A Climate Change Strategy for Peterborough aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 20% by 2011 from the 2003 emission level.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050040
Lincoln, United Kingdom
City Of Lincoln Climate Change Strategy: Phase 1
The Phase 1 of City of Lincoln Climate Change Strategy has not set any target for GHG reduction.
http://www.gcp-urcm.org/Resources/R200805050041
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