The article reports that a green neighborhoods initiative launched by British Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has been criticized as a "piecemeal" attempt to tackle climate change. The initiative was launched to help 100 neighborhoods in England reduce their carbon footprints by 60 percent. Benn ...
we must maximize tools like the Inflation Reduction Act that puts climate action funding directly in the hands of local governments. We encourage other local governments to join partnerships like Missoula’s green power initiative. Abroad, we must advocate for global financing...
and a network of 12 regional Climate Change Partnerships to extend the knowledge brokerage work long undertaken by independent but largely government-funded organizations like the UK Climate Impact Programme (UKCIP) and the LGA’s Climate Local initiative in support of adaptation decision-making by ...
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Local communities and their schools remain key sites for actions tackling issues of sustainability and climate change. A government-funded environmental education initiative, the Australian Sustainable Schools Initiative (AuSSI), working together with state based Sustainable Schools Programs (SSP), has the...
LESSONS LEARNED ON LOCAL CLIMATE ADAPTATION FROM THE URBAN LEADERS ADAPTATION INITIATIVE The Center for Clean Air Policy In partnership with government leaders from ten large counties and cities, CCAP launched theUrban Leaders Adaptation Initiative to serve as a resource for ... J Foster,S Winkelman...
State-centered and hierarchical government strategies based on technocratic top-down approaches have proved inadequate to address multiple interacting and cross-scale risks. In contrast, multilevel governance (MLG) provides a form of governance by networ
Critical Challenges in Implementing the Citizen's Charter Initiative: Insights from Selected Local Government Units inconsistencies in the information provided, and lack of customization and innovation on the part of the LGUs with respect to content and form of the cha... K Saguin - 《Philippine ...
In the low-cost state, the local government chooses to rectify while the central government chooses to supervise. With the increase in cost, both sides tend to take less action. (2) Due to the low initiative of local government, the special funds can play an important part in encouraging ...
Using a panel of 144 cities over 23 years, Rauch regresses the infrastructure share of municipal expenditure on dummy variables for the use of civil service exams, the presence of a city manager, and the adoption of a commission form of local government. After accounting for the inertia ...