How should climate actions be planned? Model lessons from published action plans

To effectively protect against the increasingly pervasive effects of climate change, countries and cities around the world are tasked with formulating and implementing climate actions that effectively respond to the challenges ahead. However, choosing the optimal climate actions is complex, since it...

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Published in:Journal of environmental management 2024-11, Vol.370, p.122648, Article 122648
Main Authors: Rjiba, Iskander Ben, Tóth-Nagy, Georgina, Rostási, Ágnes, Gyurácz-Németh, Petra, Sebestyén, Viktor
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
Climate action plan
Climate Change
Decision tree
Europe
Humans
Modeling tools
Resilient cities
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Summary:To effectively protect against the increasingly pervasive effects of climate change, countries and cities around the world are tasked with formulating and implementing climate actions that effectively respond to the challenges ahead. However, choosing the optimal climate actions is complex, since it is necessary to consider many external impacts as early on as the planning phase. Our novel methodology uncovers and integrates into first-of-its-kind decision support framework the identified climate actions of 443 European cities (from 32 countries) and the city structure-related features that influence the basic success of strategy creation into a first-of-its-kind decision support framework. Depending on their budget, population density, development and energy consumption portfolio, the results highlight that the analyzed European cities need to adopt a different way of thinking. The research results lay the foundation for the decision support of evidence-based climate action planning and contribute towards strengthening the role of cities worldwide in the fight against climate change in the future. •A decision support framework for urban climate action planning has been developed.•Our methodology was demonstrated by modeling 443 cities in 32 European countries.•The budget, population density and energy consumption are key for action planning.•Feature selection should be a decisive part of climate action model identification.•Data-driven action plan model identification must be supported by expert knowledge.
ISSN:0301-4797
1095-8630
1095-8630
DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122648