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integrating resilience through Ministry of Housing and innovation, and promoting
climate change responses Urban Affairs (MoHUA), secure land tenure. And the
with other developmental Government of India which third principle is to “ensure
actions at the local level. The assesses smart cities along environmental sustainability”
current scenario calls for both five sectors is an effort in the by promoting clean energy
individual and institutional right direction for collating systems and sustainable
capacity building in cities. information about climate consumption and production
This includes developing resilience and creating an patterns, by reducing climate
industry standards and enabling environment for risks and building urban
processes, providing access climate action planning. resilience, and by protecting
to repositories of best India’s commitment to global ecosystems and biodiversity.
practices, technical support, agreements, elaborated in If urban policy mechanisms
and enabling peer-to-peer the next section, will play and decision-making
knowledge exchange. City a key role to overcome the processes adhere to these
managers and officials aforementioned challenges in principles, then it can provide
require regular technical addressing climate resilience several (inter-sectoral)
capacity building exercises in cities. avenues to engage citizens to
which include supervision LEVERAGING NUA build resilience in cities and
and training requisite to AND SDG TO ENHANCE address the diverse needs
conduct baseline assessments, RESILIENCE BUILDING of the marginalized and
framing effective climate vulnerable communities. For
strategies, and correlating IN CITIES instance, the availability of
climate resilience with other The New Urban Agenda “Universally accessible, safe
strategies and action plans at (NUA) elaborates on three and quality public space”
the local level. interlinked principles to guide (United Nations 2017) is
cities and human settlements imperative as it contributes
Developing robust climate to foster sustainable and towards positive impacts in
policies at the local level can inclusive urbanization both social and environmental
have environmental as well as (United Nations 2017). The aspects. If public spaces are
economic benefits including first principle is to “leave no created as well-connected and
cleaner air, inclusion of one behind” by eradicating well-distributed networks of
vulnerable population, poverty, ensuring equal urban landscapes across the
livelihood generation and rights and opportunities to cities, then they can not only
technological developments. all citizens, ensuring equal serve as multipurpose, open,
It is essential to create this access to physical and social and safe areas for social and
enabling environment for infrastructure and basic cultural interactions, but also
effective implementation (for services, and eliminating all improve the resilience of cities
example, capacity-building, forms of discrimination and to climate risks and disasters,
citizen awareness, regulation, violence. The second principle such as floods and heat waves.
etc. will have impacts on is to “ensure sustainable and Moreover, if access to decent
institutional capacity). For inclusive urban economies” livelihood and legal income-
instance, implementation by ensuring well-planned earning opportunities is
of the Climate Smart Cities urbanization and equal provided to everyone without
Assessment Framework access to resources and any discrimination to those
(CSCAF) under the Smart opportunities, promoting in vulnerable circumstances
City Mission (SCM) by the productive employment and (such as the women,
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