📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173316
Region: East asia and pacific
Total Project Cost: Us$ 26.91 million
Implementing Agency: China Center for Urban Development, City of Chengdu, City of Chongqing, City of Ningbo
Development Objective : The objective is to integrate biodiversity conservation in participating cities’ urban development and establish their pathway to ca rbon neutrality.
The project funding comes from the Global Environmental Facility’s (GEF)-7 Sustainable CitiesImpact Program.GEF seeks to support cities and sub-nationals in their effort to fight against climate change, biodiversity loss and other global environmental challenges through sustainable and integrated urban planning. 13.China was one of the nine countries12that were competitively selectedfor the second phase of the GEF Sustainable Cities Impact Program in December 2019, with the total recipient grant funding of USD26,909,050. 14.The project includes three participating cities: Chongqing, Chengdu and Ningbo. In addition, two clusters of cities are under consideration: Chengdu-Chongqing Corridor and Yangtze River Delta Demonstration Zone for Ecological and Green Integrated Development (YRD Demonstration Zone)13. The table below summaries the basic information of the cities and two clusters. Annex I includes specific information on these cities and clusters. The project includes four components to achieve the PDO. These components are also designed to support the two focal areas under the GEF: biodiversity and climate change, for which the resources were allocated by the GEF to deliver global environmental benefits.16.Specifically, Component 1 would support the policy framework and strengthen institutional processes of the cities—this will be achieved by enhancing a performance indicator system supported by data sharing platforms across various agencies to ensure that green and low carbon development can be translated into measurable progress in urban planning and development. Such a measurable framework provides guidance and basis for the work under Components 2 and 3. 17.Component 2 will then focus on green –supporting ecological planning through stocktaking and enhancing of green and blue assets of a city.Component 3would help cities reduce their carbon footprint by supporting a low carbon strategy and exploring options to achieving carbon neutrality.In both Components 2 and 3, modalities of green finance will be explored, including leveraging the private sector to invest in biodiversity and low carbon options. Finally, Component 4is designed, through a knowledge platform, to bring many other cities in China and around the world to share the experience gained from the project. The intention is to engage them in the broad dialogue on urban sustainability, with the objective of making the platform become the center of excellence on urban knowledge and innovation.
