Contents
Undertaking i
Certificate ii
Acknowledgments v
Abstract vii
Table of contents viii
List of figures xii
List of tables
1 Introduction 13
1.1 Background 13
1.2 Need for the project 13
1.3 Aim, objective and methodology 14
1.4 Climate change in India 15
1.5 Overview of climate change 16
1.5.1.1 Impacts of climate change 16
1.6 Vulnerability of climate change 17
2 Literature review 18
2.1 Climate resilience 19
2.2 Initiatives for climate resilience at global level 19
2.3 Key aspects of Paris agreement 21
2.3.1.1 India has set 2030 climate targets under the Paris agreement 21
2.3.1.2 Key elements of India INDC to UNFCCC under Paris agreement… 22
2.4 National Action Plan on climate change 22
2.5 Funding mechanism in India 23
3 Gujarat SAPCC & Perception analysis 26
3.1 Introduction 26
3.2 Gujarat-SAPCC 26
3.2.1 Approach for Gujarat-SAPCC 27
3.3 Key strategies of SAPCC 27
3.4 Implementation plan 28
3.5 Perception analysis Overview 29
3.6 Methodology 29
3.7 Awareness towards climate change activities 30
3.8 Range of understanding for Different sector, schemes and entities 31
4 Case city-Ahmedabad 34
4.1 Overview 34
4.2 Ahmedabad's climatology 35
4.3 Approach to understand the climate resilience 35
4.4 Effects of Climate change in Ahmedabad… 36
4.4.1 Ahmedabad Focus Area 37
4.4.2 Initiatives in Ahmedabad 38
4.4.3 Heat Action plan 41
4.4.4 AIR plan of AMC 43
4.4.5 Climate resilience for urban poor 45
4.4.6 Carbon neutral vision of AMC 47
4.4 Stakeholder consultation 46
5.4.1 Key findings from stakeholder consultation 49
4.5 Climate investment 54
5 Key findings and recommendations 58
5.1 Project outcome 58
References 62
Appendix 1: Timeframe for recommendations 65