Land use planning

This Technology Transfer Advances Costa Rica's

• Nationally Determined Contribution to use land use planning as a tool to decrease long-term vulnerabilities of its population, enhance its food security and the resilience of its infrastructure. The NDC also includes a committment to have a land use plan in every city and coastal area by 2020,  which considers vulnerabilities to climate change and measures for increasing adaptation and mitigation

Context

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is looking for a member of the CTCN Network that can provide technical services in order to design adaptation initiatives in a land use planning in Costa Rica.

This webinar covers issues faced by cities for both climate change mitigation and adaptation, particularly focusing on the technological interventions that cities can adopt to combat and build resilience to climate change. 

Lavola has more than 35 years’ experience in sustainability services. The company is specialized in:

• Consultancy in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energies (including engineering), Carbon footprint, Climate Change mitigation and adaptation, Life Cycle analysis, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Urban and Regional Development.
• Sustainable Development Communication
• Sustainable Development Education including programmes, learning materials, activities and Management of centres.

Introduction and background.

This document, the executive summary of a book of the same title, synthesises an OECD project on the opportunities and trade-offs faced in mainstreaming responses to climate change in development planning and assistance. Country case studies review climate change impacts and vulnerabilities, analyse relevant national plans and aid portfolios and examine selected areas of natural resource management where climate change is closely intertwined with development.

Zambia’s INDC includes both mitigation and adaptation components based on her national circumstances and is in line with decisions 1/CP.19 and 1/CP.20. The successful implementation of Zambia’s INDC will result in an estimated total emission reduction of 38,000 GgCO2eq which translates to 47% (internationally supported efforts) against 2010 as a base year. This emission reduction is conditional and subject to the availability of international support in form of finance, technology and capacity building.