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Urban Management Tools for Climate Change (UMTCC)

Offered by: Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)
Location: The Hague
Program type: Short course
Program starts: 15 Jun 2015
Keywords: climate change, urban water

Program description

Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), The Netherlands brings to you a short course on Urban Management Tools for Climate Change (UMTCC)
Duration 3 weeks
Dates 15th June 2015 – 2nd July 2015
Tuition Fee € 2,750
Language English
Partner UN Habitat
Abbreviation code UMTCC6

IHS is proud to announce that this course is jointly developed with UN-HABITAT.
This course offers management tools for urban policy makers, planners and environmentalists.
Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to prepare local climate change plans, which address the global challenges yet focus on concrete local actions. The course will offer specific practices to manage urban design and environmental infrastructure, in particular energy, transport, housing and water.
Content
Module 1: Introduction to Climate Change and Vulnerability.
Module 2: Climate change adaptation: Land, water and disaster management.
Module 3: Climate change mitigation: Energy, transport and carbon markets.
Module 4: Local climate change action plans

Methodology
The course will be a blend of lectures, case studies, participants’ presentations, group exercises, simulation exercises and excursions/field visits. Participants will be engaged mainly in group work by using different tools for vulnerability mapping, GHG emissions inventory, climate change prioritization and an online data base of climate technologies and actions. From the onset of the course, participants will apply theory and best practices to actual group work. Local Climate Change Action Plans will be prepared by participants, including a vulnerability assessment, adaptation and mitigation actions assessment along with concrete plans and financial arrangements. Rotterdam is one of the 40 cities of the Clinton initiative, therefore the course will look at the Rotterdam Climate Initiative and Rotterdam Climate Proof Programs and a range of innovative plans and actions – such as ‘floating communities’ - that aim to transform a polluting harbor city, below sea level, into a ‘CO2 neutral’ and climate proof city.
CLIMACT Prio tool & Climate techwiki
The Climate Actions Prioritization (CLIMACT Prio) tool, developed by IHS, is a climate decision support and capacity building tool for the prioritization and assessment of climate mitigation and/or adaptation actions at a local level. Climate Tech-Wiki offers detailed information on a broad set of mitigation and adaptation technologies and actions within the wider context of low emission and low vulnerability development. Participants will have the chance to use the CLIMACT Prio tool and Climate Tech-wiki database in combination with different material and case studies from the Cities in Climate Change Initiative programme of UN – Habitat.
We are seeking candidates for the UMTCC course mentioned above to be held at IHS, The Netherlands. Let us know your interest in applying to the same or if you know of a colleague/friend/ employee who you think may benefit from the course, please mail us back on ihs.study7@gmail.com for further details and procedures.
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