Public Workshop Presentation: Maintain a quality and sustainable urban environment

A Low-Carbon Central City: Creating a sustainable and resilient urban

environmentA Project Overview

PROJECT BACKGROUND

GEOGRAPHY MATTERS: WHAT CENTRAL CITY?

THE CENTRAL CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY:1. Create a Premier Business Location

2. Maintain a Quality and Sustainable Urban Environment3. Develop the Central City as a Popular Destination4. Enhance the Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation of the

Central City5. Keep the Central City as the Heart and Soul of Cape Town

PROJECT GOALS:

• Map the carbon footprint of the Central City area• Develop a strategy for reducing this carbon footprint:

• Business, resident, commuter targeted interventions

• Bring the information to the public and activate strategic stakeholder networks to make a lasting difference

• Create a working platform to connect knowledge and government policy with the people making the changes on the ground

• Develop a multi-year engagement strategy to take the project forward

• Fundraise to ensure programme longevity

PARTNERS

Project Team: • The Cape Town Partnership: A non-profit collaboration

mandated to increase the socio-economic development of Cape Town’s Central City

• Sustainable Energy Africa: A research organisation that enhances capacity building, information dissemination, lobbying and networking efforts to promote sustainable energy practices in South Africa

• Stockholm Environment Institute: International strategic partner

Funders:

• Swedish International Development Agency: The official development organisation of Sweden has provided project funding for the Central City Low-Carbon Strategy

PROJECT TIMELINES:

• January: Funding approved• January – May: Data collection and evaluation• April: Public Launch of the Low-Carbon Strategy• June - August: Central City Low-Carbon Strategy

development• September-October: Evaluation of

Communications component: How to get people to change?

• October-December: Roll-out of communications strategy and public engagement process

CURRENT STATUS: DATA COLLECTION

THANK YOU!Andrew Fleming, Senior Researcher

Cape Town [email protected]

+27-21-419-1881