It takes a city
The case for collaborative climate action

CDP Report
October 2016

Sponsored by:Report analysis andinformation design for
CDP by:In partnership with:533

cities disclosed climatechange-related data through
CDP’s cities program in 2016.

About the report
In 2016, 533 cities disclosed their climate-related data through
CDP’s cities program. Our annual global report, analyzes this datawith a view to showing cities, regional governments, companies
and investors there is a case for collaborating on climate action.
Action by cities will be essential to achieving the ambitious goalsof the Paris Agreement – and cities will need to collaborate witha wide range of stakeholders to substantially reduce greenhousegas emissions, adapt to the effects of climate change, and benefit
economically and socially from a low carbon environment.

Contents

Foreword: The city view, Stockholm

4Foreword: The business view, Ericsson

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Executive summary

6

Case for collaboration

8

The current state of collaboration

10

The economic opportunity in scaling
up collaboration

15

C40 view:
How to unleash this power of collaboration

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The path forward

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CDP cities

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Foreword: The city view
Stockholm

Stockholm is taking decisive action against climatechange. We aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
to no more than 2.3 tCO2 equivalent per citizen by
2020, and to become an entirely fossil free-cityby 2040. Stockholm will not be able to meet theseobjectives on our own – and collaboration is at thecenter of our climate change strategy.
The city’s own operations contribute just 10%of Stockholm’s overall emissions. Our climate
strategy depends on us finding ways to work withthe majority privately owned local energy supplier,
and with our partners in regional government, withwhom we share responsibility for public transport
in the city and beyond. And our strategy depends
upon us finding ways to work with hundreds ofbusinesses across the city, helping them to reduce
their own climate impacts, and to find opportunities
for new low carbon products and services.
In 2007, we launched the Climate Pact, acollaborative network that offers a forum for
networking, development and sharing expertise.
It was set up to break down the sense of ‘them andus’ that divided private companies from the city
authorities, and to find common cause in reducing
carbon emissions.
The pact is open to every company – big and small,environmental leaders and those looking to learn.
With more than 200 members, it is not restricted
to those who are already doing well – only to those
who want to do better.

Karin Wanngård
Mayor of Stockholm

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It provides a way for companies to shareexperiences with each other. Unlike other businessforums, it is cross-sectoral, allowing construction
firms to learn from transport companies, and energy
firms to talk to IT companies. It also helps us, within
the city, to develop climate policies and programs in
dialogue with business. We can talk to each otherto bring forward proposals that work, and that havebuy-in from those who will have to deliver them.
We are now deepening collaboration with thosecompanies who are ready to go further, with thelaunch of a vanguard group. These companies
will serve as an inspiration to their peers and be
stretched to be even more ambitious and to reporttheir climate work.
The most important lesson from the success of the
Climate Pact for other cities around the world isthat collaboration can start small, and costs little.
Networks can be established at little expense,and can grow and evolve as their worth is proven,and as needs are identified. The first step in
addressing the challenge of climate change lies inunderstanding the nature of the problem, and thechallenges faced by all the parties involved. Then,in a spirit of dialogue and collaboration, we move
forward to begin to tackle it.

Foreword: The business view
EricssonTomorrow’s attractive cities will be sustainable,socially inclusive – and smart. At Ericsson, we see
a future where information and communication
technology enables cities to exploit renewable,
distributed energy, to seamlessly manage low carbon
transport systems, address circular economy and toefficiently supply water and wastewater services.
In Stockholm, where we are based, we are turningthat future vision into reality. We are collaboratingwith the city authorities and other private sector
actors on a range of projects and initiatives thatpromise to make this city, and others, work betterand more efficiently at the same time as reducing
their environmental impacts.
We are delighted to be involved with the signature
Stockholm Royal Seaport (SRS) project, helping totransform a hitherto industrial area of the city into
an exemplar of sustainable living, commercial andwork areas. We are co-operating with academia,
the Royal Institute of Technology, the Swedish
Energy authority and the private sector. One of
the areas we address is smart grid projects. With
our partners, we are testing how technologies andhome energy management services can be used
to change consumer behavior to enable flexible
demand for more than 150 apartments. It is oneof the first cases of its kind and size in the world
where we can see how people use and adapt their
behavior during a full year. This is a critical input todevelop product and services on a global scale toachieve flexible demand in practice.
Stockholm has also launched its Digital Demo
Stockholm initiative, in which we are participating.
It aims to harness innovation to transform traffic
management, elderly care, social integration andwater provision – with the former promising toalso reduce emissions.

Ericsson has also recently joined the city’s Climate
Pact, a network of companies enabled by the city
authorities that holds enormous promise in terms ofbuilding relationships and developing projects that will
help drive down climate impacts – at the same time as
helping us develop new products and services.
Close partnerships between cities and theprivate sector, such as Stockholm and Ericsson,
are important to support cities as they address
their carbon emissions. They also provide vitallaboratories for us to develop smart products andservices. By sharing knowledge, and by working tounderstand the challenges and constraints faced bycity governments, we can better tailor our offerings
to their needs and demands. We can take thoseexperiences to scale in other places and use themto develop services that are urgently needed aroundthe world.
To successfully address climate change, thelessons we are learning working with Stockholm
will also need to be applied elsewhere. Sweden’s
predominantly low carbon electricity mix meansthat per capita emissions in the country are alreadylow. For all the progress we can make in Northern
Europe, it will be in the fast-growing cities of Asia,
Latin American and Africa where the major benefitsof collaboration will be reaped. This is where wecan combine our hands-on experience with our
research experience on how Information andCommunication Technology (ICT) can reduce global
carbon emissions, by up to 15% by 2030.

Matilda Gennvi Gustafsson
Sustainability Director, Group Function Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility,
Ericsson5

Executive summary

The world’s cities account for approximately threequarters of global greenhouse gas emissions. Theirenergy use, and the behaviour and habits of their citizens
will dictate whether we are able to reduce emissions to
the extent needed to avoid dangerous climate change aswell as adapt to the impacts already being felt in cities.
To meet these challenges cities cannot act alone.

1. Climate Action Tracker. 2015. http://
climateactiontracker.org/news/253/
Climate-pledges-will-bring-2.7C-ofwarming-potential-for-more-action.html
2. "Financing the transition: Sustainableinfrastructure in cities." WWF and Z/
Yen Group Limited, 2015. Sustainableinfrastructure in cities. http://www.
longfinance.net/images/reports/pdf/
Financing_the_transition_March2015.pdf
3. CDP 2016 data
4. Parshall, L., Haraguchi, M.,
Rosenzweig, C. and Hammer, S.A.,
2011, The Contribution of Urban Areas
to Climate Change: New York City Case
Study, UN Habitat. http://unhabitat.
org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/
HS2011CaseStudyChapter03NewYork.pdf
5. In addition, this report has analyzed
parts of the 2015 CDP corporate data
set and States and Regions data set.
6. See question 5.0 and 5.1 of the CDP
Cities Information Request 2016.
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Transformative action is urgently needed. Current
national climate change commitments will lead towarming of around 2.7 degrees Celsius this century– considerably above the below 2 degrees goal
reaffirmed in Paris at COP21, and the 1.5 degree
aspiration the Paris Agreement contains.1

The investment needed in cities into low
carbon transport, energy, water, waste andtelecommunications infrastructure is estimated at
US$57 trillion between now and 2030.2 Investmentof this magnitude can only be delivered throughcollaboration with businesses and investors.

Action by cities will be essential therefore toachieving the ambitious goals of the Paris
Agreement – but encouragingly more than 7,000
cities have made commitments through the
Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate &Energy – and are reporting on their progress.
These cities have shown great ambition, butthey will need to collaborate with a wide range ofstakeholders if they are to meet their targets andsubstantially reduce emissions, adapt to the effects
of climate change and benefit economically andsocially from a low carbon economy.

Collaboration enhances a city government’s ability
to account for its emissions and manage them.
Despite the considerable power often in the handsof city authorities, the bulk of emissions in a city
typically come from sources over which it exercises
no direct control. For example, New York City's
municipal operations account for just 7% of total
citywide emissions. Globally, cities’ municipal
operations produce just 3% of total citywide
emissions.3 The remainder comes from sources
such as buildings and private transport wherebusiness, other levels of government, or citizens
exercise control.4

CDP serves as an official reporting platform for theCompact of Mayors, which was relaunched in June
2016 as the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate& Energy. Co-chaired by Former New York City
Mayor and UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for
Cities and Climate Change, Michael R. Bloomberg,
and European Commission Vice President, MarošŠefčovič, and with the support of global andregional city networks, including C40 Cities Climate
Leadership Group, ICLEI – Local Governments for
Sustainability, United Cities and Local Governments,
Climate Alliance, Energy Cities, and Eurocities, theGlobal Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
represents the largest global coalition of cities
committed to climate leadership.

Collaboration ishappening, it isworking and has
the potential todrive economic
growth.

This year, 533 cities from around the world
disclosed climate change-related data through
CDP’s cities program. We analyzed this data to
examine where and how cities are collaborating
on climate action with regional governments,
businesses and investors, and to explore where
the potential exists to deepen and broaden thiscollaboration.5

277 cities disclosing to CDP are seeking private
sector involvement on 720 climate-related projects
worth US$26 billion.6 Cities in North America andAfrica are particularly interested in financing –despite being at different stages in their approach to
managing climate change.

The data shows that collaboration is happening,
it is working and it has the potential to drive
economic growth.
Collaboration between cities, regions andbusinesses is a key feature of climate action. Nearly
two-thirds of cities reporting to CDP are
already collaborating with businesses, whether
through knowledge sharing, business development,planning policy, project implementation or financing.
The economic opportunity from collaboration
for cities, businesses and investors issubstantial. The emergence of the low carbon
economy represents an enormous economic
opportunity. Globally, 299 cities disclosing to CDP
identify the potential to develop new businesses andindustry sectors linked to climate change action.

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Cities that collaborate with businesses
are more likely to set emissions reduction
targets. Out of the 190 cities that have anemissions reduction target, 74% also reportcollaboration. This suggests that collaboration
helps cities aim higher on their climate actions
than they would alone, and can make them more
resilient in the face of climate change.
Cities have already demonstrated significant
leadership on taking action on climate change andwill continue to do so in the context of the mitigation
and adaptation efforts required to achieve the goalsof the Paris Agreement. To meet these challenges,
cities cannot act alone. As the data from this year’s
disclosures show, cities that collaborate are more
ambitious, and stand to seize more economic
opportunities and attract more investments thanthose who don’t.

cities disclosing:

70%

70

74%

74

%

increase in the number ofcities disclosing since theParis Agreement
was adopted

%

56%

299

cities identify an opportunity
to develop new businesses
or industry linked to climatechange action

US$26 billionof the 190 cities with a city-wide the total cost of 720 climate-related projects thatemissions reduction target,cities want private sector involvement inalso collaborate with businesses

7Case for collaboration

In both mitigating climate change and in adapting to
its impacts, collaboration between cities, regions,business and investors makes sense. Collaborating
between entities at different levels makes emissions
reduction efforts more effective; collaboration
between those facing the same local climate impacts
makes adaptation actions more successful.

190

Climate change is a shared problem
City authorities, regional governments andbusinesses all have a shared interest in reducing
the impacts of climate change as many global risks
are concentrated in urban areas. These impacts
cities have a city-wide
emissions reduction target, not only increase the potential cost-burden on
cities themselves, but also undermine the ability ofof whichbusinesses to thrive.

74%

collaborate with business

7. "Powering Climate Action: Cities
as Global Changemakers". C40
and Arup, 2015. http://www.c40.
org/blog_posts/new-researchfrom-c40-and-arup-shows-howcity-governments-are-changingthe-world
8. "Climate change plagues
Madagascar’s poor: 'The waterrose so fast'", The Guardian, 7 July
2016. https://www.theguardian.
com/global-development/2016/
jul/07/madagascar-climate-changeplagues-poor-the-water-rose-so-fast
9. "Fort McMurray wildfire costliest
insured disaster in Canadian history",
CBC, 7 July 2016, http://www.cbc.
ca/news/canada/edmonton/fortmcmurray-wildfire-costliest-insureddisaster-in-canadian-history-atnearly-3-6b-1.3668602
10. "The World Bank Supports
Thailand's Post-Floods Recovery
Effort", The World Bank, 13
December 2011. http://www.
worldbank.org/en/news/
feature/2011/12/13/world-banksupports-thailands-post-floodsrecovery-effort
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Indeed, city leaders recognize the danger thatclimate change poses. This year, disclosing cities
identified 2,022 risks to their communities due toclimate change. These included risks from extreme
temperature, floods, and water scarcity. Moreover,cities say 63% of these risks are already manifestingthemselves, or will do so in the near term.

Collaboration works
Our data shows that cities who collaborate on
climate action are not only more likely to have anemissions reduction target, but that target is more
likely to be ambitious. Out of the 190 cities thathave a city-wide emissions reduction target, 74%also collaborate with businesses. Research by C40
Cities Climate Leadership Group shows that cities
that take a partnership-based approach are better
placed to deliver on climate actions.7
Why is this? Collaboration provides opportunities
to share skills, knowledge, and resources between
cities and other actors. Cities can help businesses
raise finance for climate action. They can – anddo – set longer-term plans and targets that can
provide the context for companies to be more
ambitious and forward-looking in their planning.
Analysis of emissions reduction targets disclosed
to CDP within the 12 largest emitting countries
found that the average city target extended to 2030,
while company targets are more shorter term.
Cities, regions, and businesses generally can work
together to create complementary approaches to
responding and adapting to climate change.

Antananarivo, Madagascar
For example, in 2015, severe rainstorms flooded two-thirds ofAntananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, causing landslides.
Changing weather patterns are already impacting 12 million people,
over half of Madagascar’s population, who don’t have access to cleanwater, and are making future water supply uncertain8.
Alberta, Canada
In 2016, Alberta faced the worst natural disaster in its history. In Fort
McMurray 2,400 homes were destroyed and 80,000 people wereaffected by wildfires, costing some US$2.75 billion9.

Bangkok, Thailand
More than two-thirds of reporting cities disclose that climate change
could threaten the ability of businesses to operate successfully intheir city. Much of the US$45.7 billion worth of damage caused by theflooding in Bangkok in 2011 was borne by the private sector10.

Collaborating to meet targets:
New York City, USA

Recognizing the existential threat that climatechange poses, Mayor of New York City Bill deBlasio has set the ambitious goal to reduce citywide
greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below 2005
levels by 2050. Because buildings account for nearly
three-quarters of the city’s emissions, the Mayor has
drawn up One City: Built to Last (Transforming New
York City’s Buildings for a Low Carbon Future).11
The plan is a comprehensive, 10-year roadmap toimprove the energy efficiency of the City's buildings,
and sets an ambitious goal to reduce the city’sbuilding-based emissions 30% by 2025 as a staging
post to the 2050 target.

Participants of this initiative have moved
aggressively to cut their energy use andemissions. 6 participants have already met
the 30% goal, and 12 universities, hospitals,
and commercial offices have expanded theircommitment to a 50% reduction by 2025.
Altogether, participants have cut their annual
emissions by 175,000 metric tons of CO2e andare collectively saving almost US$175 million
annually in lower energy costs. By the end of
the program, current participants are projected
to reduce annual citywide emissions by nearly
515,000 metric tons of CO2e.

The city authorities recognise that they are notable to achieve their ambitious goals without thehelp of partners. Since 2007, 17 of New York City’s
leading universities, 11 global companies, its 11
largest hospital organizations, and 18 residential
management firms have accepted the NYC Carbon
Challenge, pledging to voluntarily reduce theirbuilding-based emissions by 30% or more within
10 years.12

The initiative works by inspiring a high levelcommitment within organizations, creating aplatform for the exchange of information andideas, and providing simple tools to trackprogress. As they explore new ideas andopportunities to meet their goals, participants
will also develop effective strategies for energy
efficiency that can be scaled up across New York
City and beyond.

11. “One City Built to Last”, The
City of New York, 2014 http://www.
nyc.gov/html/builttolast/assets/
downloads/pdf/OneCity.pdf
12. “The New York City Carbon
Challenge,” New York City, Web,
17 August 2016 http://www.nyc.
gov/html/gbee/html/challenge/nyccarbon-challenge.shtml
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The current state of collaboration

Nearly two-thirds (64%) of cities disclosing through CDP
in 2016 say they are collaborating with businesses on
climate action.
Through the CDP cities questionnaire cities are telling us that they are collaborating with businesses on climatechange.13 Areas of collaboration identified were: knowledge sharing, business development, planning policy/
permits, project implementation, and financing and incentives. The most common form of collaboration
disclosed is knowledge sharing. Cities can act as conveners, helping to bring together different stakeholders
to work together to create the knowledge needed to respond and adapt to climate change. Sharing
knowledge helps cities and companies learn from each other, disseminate best practice, align priorities andcoordinate action – and thus deliver greater climate actions at lower cost.
Number of cities collaborating with businesses on climate action
Knowledge
Sharing

Business
Development

Planning Policy/
Project
Permits
Implementation

Financing /Incentives

9

3

7

2

6

26

14

13

10

14

19

15

6

22

7

38

15

25

12

16

61

39

14

14

17

AfricaAsia and Oceania

EuropeLatin America

North America

13. See question 1.2 in the 2016 CDP
cities questionnaire1011The current state of collaboration cont'd

Knowledge sharing14
In Paris France, the city authorities have created
2 online platforms for businesses to demonstrate
their commitment to climate action and share
information. More than 30 companies havejoined the "Paris Climate Action" partnership,committing to the Paris Climate and Energy
Action Plan, while the city offers support withknowledge sharing.15

In Vancouver Canada, city leadershipdeveloped the Vancouver Economic
Commission to encourage companies in
the city to voice their support for stronger
action on climate change globally, for the
local green economy, and for the city’s 100%
renewable energy goal. CDP partnered with
the Vancouver Economic Pledge to encouragecompanies in the Vancouver area to set
science-based targets and set a carbon price.

Business development initiatives
Singapore has made water technology a
key strategic priority over the last 40 years. It
describes itself as a “leading Global Hydrohub”,
with a thriving cluster of about 180 watercompanies and 26 research centers. “Ourcapabilities in water management, desalination
and related technologies can help other countries
better adapt to changing rainfall patterns andpossible water shortages as a result of climatechange,” it says in its disclosure to CDP.

Meanwhile in South Africa, Cape Town's
Economic Development Department isestablishing a green zone industrial centre
in Atlantis to attract renewable energy
manufacturers. To help support local
manufacture and assembly of solar equipment,
the city is working with local energy service
providers to put over 60,000 solar water
heaters onto household roofs.

Policy and regulation
In 2015, South Australia passed Building
Upgrade Finance legislation, which the stateis delivering in partnership with Adelaide.
This will help commercial building owners in
the city access loans to improve the energy,
water and environmental efficiency of existing
commercial buildings.

14. Examples on this section camefrom responses to question 1.2 fromthe 2016 CDP cities questionnaire
15. "Paris Climate Action Climate
Action Partnership Agreement", Paris
Action Climat, Web 17 August 2016.
http://parisactionclimat.paris.fr/en/
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In 2010, Shenzhen was the first city in China
to pilot a carbon trading scheme, collaboratingwith companies in setting the rules and pricing
mechanisms. 636 companies in Shenzhen
are included in the system. As a result of thesuccess of the pilot in Shenzhen and 6 other
cities in China, China is launching a nationalemissions trading scheme in 2017.

Project implementation
In Argentina, the Buenos Aires Bicycle Program
promotes the use of bicycles as an ecological,
healthy, and fast means of transportation. It
includes the creation of a network of bike lanes
and bicycle parking infrastructure, a free biking
system, and its promotion to the private sector.
More than 100 companies are encouraging theiremployees to participate.

Sacramento, California, is developing a new
downtown arena, the Golden 1 Centre, inpartnership with the Sacramento Kings, thelocal National Basketball Association team. It
will be one of the most sustainable sporting
venues in the country, constructed to the
LEED Platinum standard.

City authority over energy issues offers
an enormous range of opportunities forcollaboration with the private sector.
Changwon in South Korea, for example, has
worked with companies to integrate renewableenergy technologies into its projects on waste
and transportation.

In Brazil, Campinas has partnered withSANASA, a municipal water and sanitationcompany, to improve the efficiency of its
water supply system, leading to lower
emissions and greater resilience against
climate-related water shortages.

Financing and incentives
In the United Kingdom, the US$144 million
London Green Fund is expected to leverage
up to US$1.3 billion of investment in carbon
reduction and wider ‘green’ programs in thecity. As of December 2015, the fund hadinvested in 18 sustainable urban development
projects valued over US$650 million.

In 2014, Richmond California, and Chevron
agreed to an Environmental Community
Investment Agreement, providing $90 million
dollars to the Richmond community overthe next 10 years. The money will go tocommunity programs, competitive community
grants, greenhouse gas reduction programs
and a photovoltaic solar farm.

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The economic opportunity in scaling
up collaboration

The emergence of the low carbon economy representsa sizeable economic opportunity. Globally nearly
300 cities disclosing to CDP identify the potential todevelop new businesses and industry sectors linked toclimate change.
The development of new industries, for example, theclean-tech industry, was identified across multiple
geographies as a growth opportunity. In North
America, nearly 100 opportunities were identified,
while across Europe over 50. Latin America andAfrica represent potential market sizes of US$349
billion and US$235 billion respectively for SMEs
focused on clean technologies.16
The opportunity to attract finance for climaterelated infrastructure projects is even greater. By
some estimates, more than US$4 trillion/year ofinvestment will be required in urban infrastructure tokeep up with projected growth – and an additional
US$0.4-1.1 trillion will be required to make it low
carbon and climate resilient.17 Currently, US$331
billion is being invested into climate finance projects,
illustrating that demand is still needed.18 Our datashows cities across Asia and Oceania, Europe andNorth America see the most economic potential inincreased infrastructure investment.

299

cities identified
opportunities to develop
new business industries(e.g. clean tech)

The demand for climate finance
The need for climate-related investment has neverbeen greater. Indeed, financing climate mitigation
and adaption programs offers significant area forgrowth. This year, 277 cities disclosed that they are
seeking private sector involvement on 720 climate
related projects worth US$26 billion. Given themagnitude of the infrastructure investment alonethat is required, this is likely to be an understatementof demand.

Number of cities that see an economic opportunity from climate change
397 cities disclosing to CDP identified a total of 1,028 economic opportunities.

Increased attention to otherenvironmental concerns

299
Development of new businessindustries (e.g. clean tech)

170

Improved efficiency
of operations

159

Increased infrastructure
investment

141

Increased energy
security

122

Additional funding
options

93 44
Other

16. “New Report Identifies
Major Clean-Tech Market
Opportunity for Small Businesses
in Developing Countries”, World
Bank, 24 September 2014. http://
www.worldbank.org/en/news/
feature/2014/09/24/new-reportidentifies-major-clean-tech-marketopportunity-for-small-businesses-indeveloping-countries
17. “The State of City Climate
Finance 2015”, Cities Climate
Finance Leadership Alliance.
https://sustainabledevelopment.
un.org/content/
documents/2201CCFLA-State-ofCity-Climate-Finance-2015.pdf
18. Ibid.
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The economic opportunity in scaling
up collaboration cont'dThis year’s disclosures have revealed a total of 720
examples of cities aiming to work with the private
sector on climate change-related projects.

720

127

Energy efficiency / retrofit

project seeking private
sector involvement

112

85

64
62
60
57
57
57
39

16

Renewable energy

Transport

Water management

Infrastructure improvement

Other

Buildings

Waste
management

Waste recycling

Outdoor lighting

At HSBC we see cities as key to delivering tangible action on
climate change. We have financed sustainable urban infrastructureand services such as Bus Rapid Transit, smart meters, citycommand and control systems in 'Smart Cities' around the world.
Helping cities understand and develop structures that blend
investment from private and public sources can improve theiraccess to financing. We are currently working with a number ofcities in the developing world to design strategies that can allow
them to access investment from multilateral development banks,
export credit agencies and dedicated environmental facilities suchas the UN Green Climate Fund.

HSBC

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The economic opportunity in scaling
up collaboration cont'd

Regional breakdown of climate related projects seeking private sector involvement

NorwayIceland
CanadaFinlandUnited Kingdom

MonacoDenmark
Germany

Ireland
Slovenia

Netherlands
Switzerland C
Croat

FranceNorth America

Italy

Portugal
Gibraltar

Total Cost US$8 billion

United States

Top 3 project areas include:

Tunisia

MoroccoMontenMexicoEnergy efficiency/retrofit

Dominican Republic

Honduras
Guatemala20%

SerbiaSpain

81 cities, 62% of the total disclosing
projects in North America

23%

Esto
Swed
PolandRenewable energy

Costa Rica

SenegalPanamaVenezuela

Côte d’Ivoire

Colombia

13% Transport

Burkina Faso

Came

Ghana
Nigeria

EcuadorBrazilDemocratic
Republic of Congo

Peru

Zimbabw
Bolivia
Namibia
Chile

UruguayArgentina

Latin America
74 cities, 54% of the total disclosing
projects in Latin America
Total Cost US$10.9 billion
Top 3 project areas include:
14%

Transport

13% Waste recycling
11% Energy efficiency/retrofit
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Cities disclosing to CDP are seeking private sector involvementon 720 climate-related projects worth US$26 billion.

Europe48 cities, 38% of the total disclosing
projects in Europe
Total Cost US$3.4 billion
Top 3 project areas include:

Russia18%

Energy efficiency/retrofit

16%

Buildings

14%

Infrastructure improvement

d

onia
den
Lithuania

Czech Republictia
RomaniaaBulgaria
KosovoAlbania

Japan

China
South Korea

Georgia

Asia and Oceania

TurkeyGreeceIsraelJordanEgypt

TaiwanUAE

India

Zambiawe

Top 3 project areas include:
Philippines
Vietnam
Malaysia

UgandaBurundi

Total Cost US$2 billion

Hong Kong
Thailand

Ethiopiaeroon

41 cities, 44% of the total disclosing
projects in Asia and Oceania

Pakistan

negro

25%

Singapore18%

Indonesia

Kenya
United Republic of Tanzania

Energy efficiency/retrofit
Renewable energy

12% Transport

Mozambique
Malawi
Australia

Madagascar

South Africa

Africa33 cities, 72% of the total disclosing
projects in Africa

New Zealand

Total Cost US$1.7 billion
Top 3 project areas include:
18%

Waste management

14% Renewable energy
13% Water management
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The economic opportunity in scaling
up collaboration cont'd

Demand for private sector involvement is highest in Africa, North America and Latin America. However, thetypes of projects for which cities are seeking involvement vary regionally19.
Cities in Africa are typically seeking collaboration on waste management and renewable energy projects.
Morogoro, Tanzania faces a growing solid
waste problem, with less than 30% of solid
waste collected. It is seeking private sector
involvement to help address this issue,
which has led to illegal dumping, causing
serious health and environmental issues.

Cape Town is seeking renewable energy
investment, having pioneered local
government support for wind generation
through its contract to purchase electricity
produced by the Darling Wind farm. Private
sector companies can purchase thiselectricity via Green Energy Certificates. The
city is considering extending this to otherindependent power producers.

In North America, where cities showed the second highest demand for private sector involvement, cities
are predominantly seeking collaboration for energy efficiency projects.
Atlanta, Georgia, has a buildings energy
efficiency ordinance aimed at reducing energy
and water consumption by 20% in commercial
buildings by the year 2030, creating more than
1,000 jobs a year in its first few years, andcutting carbon emissions by 50% from 2013
levels by 2030. This is in collaboration with theCity Energy Project, with whom CDP serves asa partner in data collection, which is designed
to improve energy efficiency in buildings.

Phoenix, Arizona, hopes to attract private
sector involvement to finance a large-scalesolar project on city property, at sites with highenergy use.

Latin American cities are seeking collaboration opportunities in transport and waste recycling, but the
costliest projects relate to water.
Quito, Ecuador, is seeking US$800 million to
help deliver its ambitious waste management
and water project. The project involves building
sewage pipes and collection systems that convey
wastewater to water recovery plants by a gravity
system, saving electricity by avoiding the use ofelectric pumps. By its completion, it will benefit
about 4.7 million people, treating the wastewaterof 99% of the region’s population, delivering an
85% reduction of the water footprint of the cityof Quito, and generating a potential reduction ofalmost 150,000 tCO2e per year.

19. Examples on this page camefrom responses to question 5.1 fromthe 2016 CDP cities questionnaire
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Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s sixth largest city,
reports seeking private sector involvement with 5
different initiatives, the majority of which focus on
improving transport. The city aims to encourage
urban mobility, in particular through improving
cycling infrastructure.

In the Asia and Oceania region, where just under half of cities (44%) disclose seeking private sector
involvement with climate-related projects, energy efficiency and renewable energy projects are mostpopular, as with North American cities.

Kolkata, India, is seeking private sector
involvement with renewable energy projects
focused on developing solar-powered heating
and lighting, including street lighting.

Sydney, Australia is running the Better
Buildings Partnership (BBP), “a collaborative
partnership with Sydney’s leading privatecommercial building owners committed toassisting the City to meet its Sydney 2030
objectives”. The partnership develops bestpractice and advocates for solutions to
help unlock improvements to environmental
performance in the commercial building sector.

Finally, in Europe, where just over a third of cities disclose seeking private sector involvement, projects areprimarily focused on energy efficiency and buildings, although infrastructure improvement is also a key focus.
Almost a fifth of the population of Birmingham,
the UK’s second largest city, currently lives infuel poverty, making energy efficiency of homesa key priority. Following the withdrawal of theGreen Deal, the national parent scheme, thecity is in the process of relaunching its flagshipenergy saving program and is seeking support
from the private sector.

Florence, Italy, is seeking private sector
involvement with improving its transportation
infrastructure. It is developing new tram lines
and an electric mobility recharging network.

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The economic opportunity in scaling
up collaboration cont'dBarriers to accessing investment
While many cities across Africa and Latin America areinterested in private sector involvement in projects,
they are less advanced in terms of setting emissions
reduction targets. In Latin America, 74 out of 136(nearly half) disclosing cities are seeking private sector
involvement in climate-related projects, while just 6
have emissions targets. In Africa, 33 out of 46 cities
are looking for investment, while just 3 have targets.

Our research on cities and investors suggests that this
could be a potential barrier to accessing investment.20

Cities with emissions reduction targets

Cities seeking private sector involvement

AfricaCities in Africa and Latin America typically lackemissions inventories within their city, making it achallenge to set emissions-reduction targets. These
cities also face numerous competing priorities andsevere resource constraints that make it challenging todevelop and present investable project plans alone.

72%

7%
3/46

33/46

Asia and Oceania

33%

44%

31/94

41/94

Europe58%
73/126

Latin America

48/126

6%

54%

8/136

74/136

North America

57%
75/131

Global

21. Ibid
22. “Financing Sustainable Cities:
How We're Helping Africa's Cities
Raise Their Credit Ratings”, World
Bank, 24 October 2013. http://
www.worldbank.org/en/news/
feature/2013/10/24/financingsustainable-cities-africa-creditworthy
22

62%
81/131

36%
190/533

20. “Barriers to Private Sector
Investments into Urban Climate
Mitigation Projects,” Climate-KIC and
CDP, 2016. http://local.climate-kic.
org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/
Final-White-Paper-Barriers-toInvestments-into-Urban-ClimateMitigation-Projects-02022016.pdf

38%

Our research reveals that because cities typicallyaccess public finance, city authorities are not as
knowledgeable on how investors operate, andhow best to engage with them to attract private
finance.21 There is a lack of awareness within city
governments as to what financing opportunities
exist with private investors, and a lack of capacity
to access them.
Publicly listed corporations, on the other hand,
are typically much better at understanding andcatering to the needs of private investors, whoin turn view corporations as a more reliable
investment opportunity.

52%
277/533

Partnering with business could therefore put cities
in a stronger position to attract investors in a
win-win situation. In emerging markets, only 4% of
the largest 500 cities in developing countries are
deemed credit-worthy by international investors.22
However, cities in the global south offer some of
the biggest opportunities for growth, economies
of scale and density – all of which are strong
incentives for business to partner and help shape
the cities of tomorrow.

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C40 view:
How to unleash this power of collaboration

Here at the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,
research has highlighted that 75% of the challenges
preventing future climate action in our cities, cannot
be resolved unilaterally by the city. Rather only throughcollaboration with partners in the private sector,
national government, civil society and others can weunleash the vast potential for action in our cities.
For those less familiar with us, C40 is a network of theworld’s megacities committed to addressing climatechange. C40 connects more than 80 of the world’s
greatest cities, representing over 600 million people
and one-quarter of the global economy.
The research explored hundreds of challenges thatmember cities face, from which 6 were highlighted asconsistent, leading issues, with the high level findings
published across 2 C40 reports23,24 . What follows aresome highlights from the background analysis on how
these challenges express themselves, and some initial
framing on how we might move forward.
Challenges and opportunities around collaboration
between cities and the private sector

Our cities identified challenges working with theprivate sector to be amongst the most prevalent anddamaging in limiting climate action25. These challenges
included aspects like:
1. Familiarity of cities with the solutions, services andtechnologies that are available across the private
sector globally, due to limited resources and expertise.
2. Familiarity of cities with the business needs ofprivate sector organisations in creating opportunities
for collaboration.
3. Familiarity of companies with the needs of cities.
Resulting in companies not focusing on innovation tosolve city’s needs, or the city being overwhelmed bylarge numbers of inappropriate solutions.
4. Opportunity to form personal networks. Crosssectoral engagement and clear and easy identificationof relevant contacts for each sector and relationships
between both sectors, ensuring professionals know
“who to go to”.
23. "Potential for Climate Action"
C40 Cities and ARUP, 2015. https://
issuu.com/c40cities/docs/c40_
citypotential_2015
24. "Unlocking Climate Action in
Megacities" C40, 2015. http://www.
c40.org/researches/unlockingclimate-action-in-megacities
25. This content considers difficulties
in effective working on funded
projects, rather than considering
funding issues directly. Pleasesee a recent report undertaken in
partnership between C40, Siemens
and Citibank for more on funding
challenges and how they can beovercome: http://www.siemens.com.
sg/zdoc/corporatecommunications/
new%20perspectives%20lr.pdf
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5. Effective communication throughout
procurement. With a particular challenge aroundlimits to pre-procurement communication, which
can be seen as legislative risk by cities and afinancial risk by companies.
6. Policy certainty. Uncertainty about for instance,
incentive schemes, is a significant risk to private sector.
7. Improving city transparency and financial
performance, in order to create an enabling
environment within cities. Including a wide range ofSeth Schultz
Director of Research, Measurement & Planning, C40

conditions within a city that increase the cost andrisk of doing business, for instance around levels oftransparency in the city authority.
8. Confidence as an encouragement to market
development. Giving clear signals to the private sectorof intent, and demonstrating a pipeline of projects that
supports investment to instil confidence and mobilize
first movers.
9. Respective image and mutual trust. It is importantthat cities see the private sector as a positive influenceand vital partner, rather than distrust their motives ascommercial entities, and that businesses see cities asa dynamic focus of effective action.
Overall, improving engagement between the private
sector and city governments is a critical element toaddressing all of the above challenges. There are many
excellent examples of cities or companies initiating this
dialogue locally, for instance most North American
cities have a range of initiatives to foster this kind ofinteraction, as well as organisations and initiatives
specifically aimed at this work such as CDP, Global
Cities Business Alliance and We Mean Business.
The evidence in this research implies that such
efforts should be enhanced exponentially. Forums toestablish exchange and familiarity between cities andprivate sector leaders in the climate space must be set
up in all global regions. Many cities simply do not havethe capacity to interface regularly and speculatively
with the private sector, and so such curated
opportunities would be of tremendous value, withtargeted and regular interaction likely to address manyof the above concerns. Such forums could offer a
range of vitally useful functions, for instance supporting
cities in establishing positive brand and reputation,
creating mechanisms to share needs and solutions,
regular opportunity for interface between cities andlocal as well as international businesses. How forums
for such exchanges could be established, and thebest format for doing so, should be the subject ofurgent cross-sectoral research.
C40 is currently exploring research and partnership
opportunities to foster such improved relationships
with local and international businesses, and looks
forward to announcing specific initiatives in the coming
months and years.

The path forward

The results of this report show just how essential
collaboration between different sectors of the economy
is for effective action on climate change.
Collaboration works: Out of the 190 cities
that have an emissions reduction target, 74%
collaborate with business. Reducing cityemissions cannot be done alone. Cities can becreative by creating new partnership models inorder to create a low carbon economy.
Collaboration is happening. 64% of cities
are currently collaborating on climate action.
An opportunity exists for it to be scaled
up with a potential for more integrated andimpactful partnerships.
Collaboration presents an economic
opportunity. Over half of all disclosing cities
are seeking private sector involvement on 720
projects worth over US$26 billion. Investors
and companies wish to support cities in
implementing innovative projects and create
successful collaborative models that can foster
sustainable economic growth.

Additional potential exists for us to tackle
climate change, and collaboration is the key.
The Paris Agreement demands deeper action.
City governments are demonstrated leaders on
climate action, but it takes an entire city and all of
its components—business, investors, non-profits
and local government—to address the complex
challenges that climate change presents.
Meeting the challenge will require traditional meansof collaboration, like city governments setting strong
policy, businesses developing new technologies
and investors providing financial support for
infrastructure projects. But it will also require newmeans of collaboration, and new means of what we
consider to be collaboration. For example, investors
can support cities not just through financing debt
and infrastructure, but also by investing in start-up
companies that are based in cities. These startups
can create strong business eco-systems that deliver
jobs and, in turn, provide a growing tax base for thecity. Investors can also fund companies that counturban consumers as their main customers. These
new types of collaboration may be indirect—but
they are no less important than traditional methods.
The disclosures by more than 500 city governments
to the CDP cities program this year highlight theextraordinary climate actions being taken by cities,
as well as the long road that extends ahead of us.
Cities will lead the way toward implementation of
the Paris Agreement and our eventual triumph over
the threat of a significantly warmer world. It takes acity—indeed, many cities—to lead us to that future.

Conor Riffle
Director, Cities and Data Product Innovation

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533 disclosing cities in 89 countries
Africa › Burkina Faso › Bakata › Burundi › La mairie de Bujumbura › Cameroon › Bangangté › Foumban › Yaoundé 6 › Cote d Ivoire › Abidjan › GrandBassam › Democratic Republic of Congo › Kananga › Kinshasa › Egypt › Cairo › Ethiopia › Addis Ababa › Ghana › Accra › Kenya › Kisumu › Nairobi ›Nakuru › Madagascar › Antananarivo › Malawi › Blantyre › Lilongwe › Morocco › Rabat › Mozambique › Cidade de Maputo › Nacala › Namibia › Windhoek› Nigeria › Abuja › Ibadan › Lagos › Senegal › Dioudoubou › Ziguinchor › South Africa › Cape Town › Durban › Ekurhuleni › Emfuleni › Johannesburg ›Nelson Mandela Bay › Pietermaritzburg › Pretoria - Tshwane › Sekhukhune › Ugu › Vhembe › Tunisia › Commune Ain Drahem › Uganda › Jinja › United
Republic of Tanzania › Arusha › Dar es Salaam › Morogoro › Mwanza › Zambia › Mazabuka › Zimbabwe › Harare Asia and Oceania › Australia › Adelaide› Byron Shire › Cairns › Canberra › Melbourne › Perth › Sydney › China › Guangzhou › Shenzhen › Wuhan › Hong Kong › India › Bangalore › Jaipur › Kolkata ›Indonesia › Bogor › Jakarta › Yogyakarta › Israel › Tel Aviv-Yafo › Japan › Hiroshima › Nagoya › Okayama › Tokyo › Yokohama › Jordan › Amman › Malaysia ›Iskandar › Kuala Lumpur › Petaling Jaya › New Zealand › Auckland › Kapiti Coast › Napier › Wellington › Pakistan › Karachi › Philippines › Angeles › Antipolo ›Batangas › Makati › Quezon › Singapore › Singapore › South Korea › Ansan › Boseong › Changwon › Cheongsong › Daejeon › Damyang › Geoje › Geumsan› Goheung › Gokseong › Gunpo › Gurye › Gwangju › Gwangyang › Haenam › Hoengseong › Hongcheon › Hwacheon › Imsil › Incheon › Inje › Jangheung ›Jangseong › Jecheon › Jeju › Jeongseon › Jeonju › Mokpo › Muan › Naju › Nonsan › Pyeongtaek › Samcheok › Sejong › Seocheon › Seogwipo › Seoul › Shinan› Sunchang › Suwon › Tongyeong › Uljin › Wonju › Yeonggwang › Taiwan › Hsinchu › Kaohsiung › New Taipei › Pingtung › Tainan › Taipei City › Taoyuan › Yilan› Thailand › Bangkok › UAE › Dubai › Vietnam › Hanoi › Ho Chi Minh Europe › Albania › Tirana › Bulgaria › Sofia Municipality › Stara Zagora › Croatia › Zagreb› Czech Republic › Brno › Denmark › Aarhus Kommune › Alleroed Minicipality › City of Ærøskøbing › Copenhagen › Egedal Municipality › Frederikshavn ›Kommune › Gladsaxe Kommune › Hjørring › Hoeje-Taastrup Kommune › Hørsholm Kommune › Hvidovre › Jammerbugt Kommune › Middelfart Kommune ›Odder Kommune › Skive Kommune › Sonderborg Kommune › Estonia › Johvi › Finland › Helsinki › Lahti › Turku › France › Amiens Métropole › Communauté
urbaine du Grand Nancy › Nice Côte d’Azur › Paris › Villeurbanne › Georgia › Tbilisi › Germany › Berlin › Hamburg › Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg › Stadt
Heidelberg › Gibraltar › Gibraltar › Greece › Athens › Thessaloniki › Iceland › Akureyri › Reykjavík › Ireland › Dublin › Italy › Bologna › Bolzano › Cagliari ›Ferrara › Firenze › Genova › Lucca › Milano › Monza › Napoli › Olbia › Oristano › Padova › Piacenza › Ravenna › Reggio Emilia › Rimini › Roma › Torino › Udine› Venezia › Kosovo › Pristina › Lithuania › Šiauliai › Vilnius › Monaco › Monaco › Montenegro › Podgorica › Netherlands › Amsterdam › Groningen › Nijmegen› Rotterdam › The Hague › Norway › Bærum Kommune › Oslo › Tromsø › Trondheim › Poland › City of › Wroclaw › Gdańsk › Gdynia › Tarnów › Warsaw ›Portugal › Águeda › Barreiro › Braga › Cascais › Fafe › Faro › Funchal › Lamego › Lisbon › Matosinhos › Moita › Ovar › Porto › Santarém › Torres Vedras › Vila
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