TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated Climate Action Planning (ICLAP) in Asia-Pacific Cities
T2 - Analytical Modelling for Collaborative Decision Making
AU - Sethi, Mahendra
AU - Liu, Li Jing
AU - Ayaragarnchanakul, Eva
AU - Suwa, Aki
AU - Avtar, Ram
AU - Surjan, Akhilesh
AU - Mittal, Shilpi
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was primarily supported by grants from the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research under their Collaborative Regional Research Programme (CRRP) Project No. CRRP2020-04MY-Sethi, titled “Integrated climate action planning (ICLAP) 2050 tool in Asia-Pacific cities”.
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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - While climate change has global causations and impacts, there is growing consensus on addressing the 2 °C challenge through local actions. However, at the local level, there is disintegrated knowledge on the following: (a) short-, mid-and long-term climate vulnerability, (b) economy and GHG structures and their future pathways, and (c) useful mitigation and adaptation undertaken elsewhere. We evaluate these gaps through a comprehensive review of scientific literature and policy approaches of urban-climate studies in the Asia-Pacific Region. Based on the research findings, we develop a collaborative research framework of an integrated climate action planning (ICLAP) model for evidence-based decision-making tool. It adopts an innovative methodology integrating knowledge and data from diverse analytics, as follows: (a) spatial: downscaling global/regional climate scenarios to forecast local climate variability (50 km × 50 km) for 2030 (SDG target) and 2050; (b) statistical: a meta-analysis of 49 five-million-plus cities to forecast economic, energy and GHG scenarios; (c) bibliometric: a systematic review of global urban climate interventions from Google Scholar that collectively aid cities on policy inputs for mid-term climate variability, GHG profiles and available solutions at their disposal. We conclude with a discussion on scientific and policy relevance of such a tool in fostering overall urban, regional and global sustainability.
AB - While climate change has global causations and impacts, there is growing consensus on addressing the 2 °C challenge through local actions. However, at the local level, there is disintegrated knowledge on the following: (a) short-, mid-and long-term climate vulnerability, (b) economy and GHG structures and their future pathways, and (c) useful mitigation and adaptation undertaken elsewhere. We evaluate these gaps through a comprehensive review of scientific literature and policy approaches of urban-climate studies in the Asia-Pacific Region. Based on the research findings, we develop a collaborative research framework of an integrated climate action planning (ICLAP) model for evidence-based decision-making tool. It adopts an innovative methodology integrating knowledge and data from diverse analytics, as follows: (a) spatial: downscaling global/regional climate scenarios to forecast local climate variability (50 km × 50 km) for 2030 (SDG target) and 2050; (b) statistical: a meta-analysis of 49 five-million-plus cities to forecast economic, energy and GHG scenarios; (c) bibliometric: a systematic review of global urban climate interventions from Google Scholar that collectively aid cities on policy inputs for mid-term climate variability, GHG profiles and available solutions at their disposal. We conclude with a discussion on scientific and policy relevance of such a tool in fostering overall urban, regional and global sustainability.
KW - Asia-Pacific
KW - Climate action planning
KW - Decision making
KW - Integrated model
KW - Urban climate
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U2 - 10.3390/atmos13020247
DO - 10.3390/atmos13020247
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124095957
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - Atmosphere
JF - Atmosphere
SN - 2073-4433
IS - 2
M1 - 247
ER -