This paper evaluates the level of integration of climate mitigation and adaptation in cities’ local climate action plans and explores the different types of mitigation—adaptation interrelationships. It comprehensively evaluates nine adaptation and mitigation plans and presents a framework, which identifies the following sectors as avenues for synergy (or co-benefits): urban greening, urban agriculture, and water management.
The Best Practice Guide for Clean Energy Solutions in Municipal Water Infrastructure intends to assist municipalities in the implementation of cleaner energy technologies and services at their waterworks by suggesting the key elements that municipal officials need to consider to implement a cleaner energy project.
Nature Risk Rising, produced in collaboration with PwC and the first report in the NNE series, explains how nature-related risks matter to business, why they must be urgently mainstreamed into risk management strategies and why it is vital to prioritize the protection of nature’s assets and services within the broader global economic growth agenda.
The UfM Financial Strategy for Water provides both a stocktaking and future outlook on water financing in the Mediterranean. Its aim is to promote increased financing of investments that contribute to a number of water-related goals such as access to water, protection against the risk of droughts, floods or polluted water, and sustainable growth in the Mediterranean region, while at he same time enhancing the financial sustainability of the water sector.
The paper presents a joint estimation of willingness to pay for conservation activities aimed to preserve the flow of ecosystem services provided by a marine protected area network and respondents´ personal discount rate using a contingent valuation survey.