Analysis of local climate action in Atlanta through a systemic equity lens
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Desai, Aditya Girish
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Bozeman, Joe F.
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Many cities around the world are engaged in either the planning or implementation of their climate strategies. With political power and will, city-level climate action plans have the potential to combat climate change at a local level by leveraging support from international collaboration. While many climate action planning frameworks exist, there is a need for a standard to be able to benchmark and report progress on agreed upon targets while also ensuring data transparency. Mumbai and Nairobi are one of the most recent examples of cities taking charge to combat climate change and its effects locally. The hazards and risks that climate change poses to these two cities are different, and their socioeconomic and political constructs have unique characteristics.
The City of Atlanta’s climate policies and the goal to transition to 100% clean energy usage by 2035 is ambitious. The transition plan adopted in 2019 establishes guidelines for periodic assessment of progress and targets which is vital for an initiative as broad and long-term as this one. Estimating the effectiveness of such a long-term policy over its inception years is not optimal. However, employing an equity-centric framework like the one presented in this work will make comparative analysis much more robust and give decision-makers a unique equity and human health centered tool to assess the performance of their climate policies.
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2023-05-02
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