Local Climate Change Plan for the Province of Lima - Peru

The Local Climate Change Plan (PLCC) of Lima details how the city will manage the risks associated with climate change, with a focus on the most vulnerable populations, under an inclusive and equitable approach, in order to build a prosperous, inclusive and resilient city. It includes 144 mitigation, adaptation and governance actions organised into nine strategies that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% until 2030, increase local resilience and improve the city's capacities to adapt to climate related hazards. Another contribution of the plan is the Mitigation Scenario Study, which analysed possible greenhouse gas scenarios for 2030, 2040 and 2050, to identify mitigation actions for the sectors of sustainable mobility, eco-efficiency, waste management, sustainable construction and air quality. The scope of the plan covers the 43 districts of Metropolitan Lima, including its natural and rural areas, which will allow for a comprehensive climate management of the city, with cross-cutting axes in vital sectors. NBS are implemented at various scales to connect urban green spaces and to improve the provision of ecosystem services. This includes large scale protection and restoration of key local ecosystems (such as the three rivers of Lima) as well as small scale interventions on buildings (such as green roofs and facades).

Overview

Type of instrument:

Legislative, regulatory and strategic instruments›Dedicated strategy, plan, or law

Challenges addressed

Ecologic connectivity
Water management (e.g. reuse)
Green space management (e.g. accessibility)
Watershed restoration/water quality
Drought and fire risk
Flood risk: pluvial and fluvial / soil permeability
Heat stress and heat island effect
Landslide risk
Air quality
Social cohesion
Social equity

Consideration of nature-based solutions:

As part of the strategy on ecosystems and urban green, the PLCC seeks to implement NBS at various scales to connect urban green spaces and to improve the provision of ecosystem services. Smaller scale NBS interventions target (neighbourhood) parks or the household scale with orchards, walls, green roofs.

Targeted (peri-)urban areas:

Parks and (semi)natural urban green areas

Allotments, community gardens or agricultural areas

Blue areas

Green areas for water management

External building greens

Urban green space connected to grey infrastructure

Good practice characteristics:

Sustainable in the long-term

Locally appropriate

Potential to be replicated / upscaled

Governance

Government body/bodies

Initiating body:

Municipality of Lima

Instrument design:

Details about how the instrument was designed:

For its formulation, an exchange of knowledge with experts from public entities and a participatory process with key social actors in the city such as children, youth, district municipalities, social organisations and academia was carried out. Relevant authorities and social actors have been identified who need to be engaged in order to achieve the mitigation goals and the mitigation goals and the city's resilience objectives in a sustainable manner.

Involvement of non-governmental actors:

Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)

Private sector, corporate, business

Researchers, university

Citizens or community groups / NGOs

Type of actor involvement:

Expert task force consultation

Civil society consultation through e.g. workshops, surveys

Instrument implementation:

Type of involvement:

Formally establish a technical group for the implementation and monitoring the PLCC; Establish agreements and/or inter-institutional agreements between the municipality and different entities and institutions for the purpose of developing research or concerted interventions related to climate action management; Establish annual meetings between the Mayor and representatives of youth civil society organisations (CSO-J); Establish an annual session of the Children's Environmental Council on climate change, as well as a public hearing between the Mayor and the Children's Council on the implementation of the CCLP; Support initiatives directed to women; among other formats

Type of non-governmental actors involved:

Citizen councils or consultation for co-planning (e.g. workshops, surveys)

Citizen oversight (e.g. boards, advisory role)

Implementation of NBS (e.g. with government funds)

Targeted actors:

Public sector institution (e.g. school or hospital)

Private: household, real estate developer, business , financial

Researchers, university

Citizens or community groups (CBOs), NGOs

Financing

Sources of funding:

Public local authority’s budget

Funds provided by non-governmental organization

Budget:

Unknown

Details about instrument financing:

No information found during this research

Monitoring, evaluation and impacts

Is a monitoring framework in place?:

Yes

The PLCC provides twelve specific objectives that are each accompanied with an indicator. This is intended to provide a regular monitoring of the implementation and outputs of the PLCC (some of them will also be supporting the Nationally Determined Contributions / NDCs of Perú).

Did an evaluation take place?:

Yes

An reporting of actions and objectives will be carried out annually. An evaluation report based on the indicators will be prepared every four years, as this time interval will allow the level of compliance to be noted and also to adapt to the context that may arise.

Achieved outcomes and impacts:

not yet published at the time of this research

Success factors and lessons learned:

As one of key focus areas, the PLCC intents to protect and restore three major local ecosystems: the hill areas (lomas), wetlands and the three rivers of the city. If implementented successfully, this will positively affect the water provision - one of the key issues of Lima.

Sources and further information

References

List of references:

Municipalidad de Lima (2021). PLAN LOCAL DE CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO DE LA PROVINCIA DE LIMA 2021-2030. Gerencia de servicios a la ciudad y gestión ambiental, Lima, pp.391.

PopulationStat (2022). Population of Lima. https://populationstat.com/peru/lima (accessed 11 July 2022).

Actualidad Ambiental (2021). ¿En qué consiste el Plan Local de Cambio Climático aprobado por el municipio de Lima? https://www.actualidadambiental.pe/en-que-consiste-el-plan-local-de-cambio-climatico-aprobado-por-el-municipio-de-lima/ (accessed 11 July 2022).

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