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2020 Cities Q2.2 - Budgetary Capacity as a Barrier to Adaptation
| Row number | Questionnaire Name | Account Number | Account Name | Country | CDP Region | ParentSection | Section | RowNumber | RowName | Factors that affect ability to adapt | Indicate if this factor either supports or challenges the ability to adapt | Level of degree to which factor challenges/supports the adaptive capacity of your city | Please describe how the factor supports or challenges the adaptive capacity of your city |
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| 51 | Cities 2020 | 50368 | Municipalidad de Provincial de Arequipa | Peru | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Guide the financing mechanisms to the public or private sectors, generating pacts or public-private partnerships; resorting to the chains of budgets for results in the case of accessing the public fund among others. | ||
| 52 | Cities 2020 | 50370 | Municipalidad de Tampico | Mexico | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Local governments do not have direct access to federal funding for projects on climate change. | ||
| 53 | Cities 2020 | 50383 | Prefeitura de Sorocaba | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | a implantação de obras para adaptação e mitigação às mudanças climáticas exigem investimentos que não são completamente cobertos com recursos municipais e dependem da captação de recursos externos | |
| 54 | Cities 2020 | 50392 | Prefeitura de Vitória | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | |||
| 55 | Cities 2020 | 50549 | City of Fort Worth | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 8 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Many environmental programs in the city are funded through the Environmental Protection Fund. The fees that supply this funding have not been raised since their implementation in 1995. | |
| 56 | Cities 2020 | 50550 | City of Buffalo | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 10 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | |||
| 57 | Cities 2020 | 50555 | City of Hamilton | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Hazards such as flooding and severe storms may damage water, wastewater and/or storm water infrastructure. There may be high costs to repair damage. | |
| 58 | Cities 2020 | 50558 | City of London, ON | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Financial resources to bolster infrastructure in short supply and upper level government funds are sparse. | ||
| 59 | Cities 2020 | 50559 | City of St Catharines, ON | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | There are limited monetary resources to address many issues e.g. poverty, opioids/addiction, crime, recreation, infrastructure investments etc. There are more demands than available resources generally. | |
| 60 | Cities 2020 | 50560 | City of Oakland | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 6 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Funding caps and debt management are components of budgetary capacity that limit the City's ability to make strong efforts on its climate change mitigation and adaptation needs. | ||
| 61 | Cities 2020 | 50568 | City of Saskatoon | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | The City of Saskatoon has a number of priority projects underway at this time and budgetary capacity will impact the implementation speed and effectiveness for all projects including those supporting improved adaptive capacity within our civic government. | ||
| 62 | Cities 2020 | 50572 | City of Saint Paul, MN | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | Budgetary capacity is a perennial issue. Countless opportunities and finite resources. Like all cities, Saint Paul must prioritize options, with public safety and health receiving highest priority. | |
| 63 | Cities 2020 | 50650 | City of Gibraltar | Gibraltar | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Although Gibraltar is a prosperous City, mitigation and adaptation measures can be costly and they vie against other budgetary demands such as health, housing and education - and perhaps not considered as urgent or vital as Gibraltar is not impacted as strongly by climate change as perhaps other nations. | ||
| 64 | Cities 2020 | 51079 | Guatemala City | Guatemala | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | In Decree 7-2013 Framework Law to regulate the reduction of vulnerability, the mandatory adaptation to the effects of climate change and the mitigation of greenhouse gases in its article 24 dictates the creation at the national level of the National Climate Change Fund ( FONCC) in order to finance plans, programs and projects for risk management, vulnerability reduction, forced adaptation and forced mitigation, as well as the improvement of national capacities in the face of climate change. | |
| 65 | Cities 2020 | 52894 | City of Winston-Salem | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | If our budget decreases, this would likely take priority and focus away from projects and initiatives that could enhance our ability to adapt to climate change. | |
| 66 | Cities 2020 | 53879 | City of Jersey City | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Due to COVID-19-related shutdowns, budgets for state and local governments across the nation, including Jersey City, have been severely constrained. | |
| 67 | Cities 2020 | 53959 | City of Fayetteville, AR | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 8 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | The City of Fayetteville relies on a strong economy and steady production of sales tax in order to secure a healthy budget. However, as more residents face unemployment and decrease their spending, the city faces deep cuts to its revenue. These significant losses in funding has limited the amount of energy and money dedicated to adaptation and mitigation initiatives. | |
| 68 | Cities 2020 | 54037 | City of Des Moines | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Somewhat challenges | The current patterns demonstrated by localized climate change make it difficult to budget and identify key financial resources to make targeted and impactful improvements. Near term planning efforts will help identify budget needs and prioritize investments. | |
| 69 | Cities 2020 | 54060 | City of Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | |||
| 70 | Cities 2020 | 54075 | City of Lakewood | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 6 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Lakewood has not had the financial resources to develop a thorough adaptation plan. | |
| 71 | Cities 2020 | 54078 | City of Hayward | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | The limited budget affects the number of staff available to plan for adaptation projects. In addition, the infrastructure needed to prevent and protect from sea level rise will be costly. | |
| 72 | Cities 2020 | 54082 | City of Hollywood, FL | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Somewhat challenges | The City of Hollywood recently experienced a period of financial urgency. While the City is now on more secure financial footing, the budget currently does not allow for expansive resiliency projects. Additional funding would have to be sought from outside sources. | |
| 73 | Cities 2020 | 54085 | City of Savannah | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Most municipalities are very fiscally limited and can struggle to adequately satisfy core services. Savannah is no exception. It is often challenging to identify the significant funding necessary for large adaptation projects. | ||
| 74 | Cities 2020 | 54092 | City of Ann Arbor | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 10 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | While Ann Arbor has funded an Office of Sustainability and Innovation addressing climate change mitigation and adaption, the task at hand is monumental, requiring accelerated action at a large scale, and a large amount of financial resources to do so. | |
| 75 | Cities 2020 | 54110 | City of Santa Monica | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | The City of Santa Monica is projecting a net loss of income as its pension obligations will soon exceed its revenue and ability to pay. This may limit the staff and funding that is available. | ||
| 76 | Cities 2020 | 54113 | City of Flagstaff | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | The budget provided towards climate change adaptation measures is limited. | ||
| 77 | Cities 2020 | 54114 | City of Asheville | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Asheville is a small City of 90,000 but population increases to 150,000+ during the day; however, there is not the ability to capture tourism dollars on a municipal level. Hotel and motel taxes are utilized for tourism. | |
| 78 | Cities 2020 | 54116 | City of Dubuque | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | COVID-19 has impacted our city government's budget and budgets are a) unknown and b)slashed for sustainability and climate action and adaptation work | |
| 79 | Cities 2020 | 54119 | City of Palo Alto | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Palo Alto, like most cities in California, is experiencing a pension crisis and must reduce it's budget significantly to address rising pension costs. This affects how much funding can be allocated towards climate change efforts. | ||
| 80 | Cities 2020 | 54274 | Rotorua Lakes Council | New Zealand | Southeast Asia and Oceania | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Local government funding constraints limit the ability of the district to invest in long term planning projects. | |
| 81 | Cities 2020 | 54360 | Shah Alam City Council | Malaysia | Southeast Asia and Oceania | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Financial support for the implementation of adequate mitigation and adaptation measures is a problem for most local governments | ||
| 82 | Cities 2020 | 54459 | City of Reykjavík | Iceland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Funding for all adaptation measure are not fully completed. | |
| 83 | Cities 2020 | 54513 | Municipality of Uppsala | Sweden | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Uppsala has had a strained economy for several years, which still shows and need to be accounted for. | ||
| 84 | Cities 2020 | 54521 | BCP Council | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Local government funding has been, and will continue to be, reduced significantly. This makes funding climate change adaptation measures increasing difficult. | |
| 85 | Cities 2020 | 54529 | City of Leicester | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Budget cuts resulted in merging of the climate change adaptation and mitigation processes so no longer have reviews of climate change impacts/vulnerability. Ongoing budget cuts in UK local government continue to affect capacity. | |
| 86 | Cities 2020 | 54538 | Bath and North East Somerset | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | The LCLIP work that was carried out and updated in 2015 was not able to quantify costs due to the lack of available data about climate impacts locally. This meant that a business case was not able to be made to allocate any resources to work on adaptation. There has not been the capacity within the Sustainability Team to update this study or focus on Adaptation in recent years. | |
| 87 | Cities 2020 | 54611 | Alcaldia de Manizales | Colombia | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Not all the economic resources are available for the attention of all the environmental problems that climate change contracts | ||
| 88 | Cities 2020 | 54623 | Prefeitura de Betim | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Atualmente o Município de Betim passa por uma situação de dificuldade financeira, o que dificulta a execução de ações de adaptação às mudanças climáticas. | ||
| 89 | Cities 2020 | 54650 | Prefeitura de Palmas | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Há grande necessidade de investimento para a realização das mudanças. | ||
| 90 | Cities 2020 | 54670 | Prefeitura Municipal de Capivari | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | A arrecadação municipal ainda é muito baixa para arcar com os serviços públicos necessários para uma boa gestão. | ||
| 91 | Cities 2020 | 54696 | XIV Ayuntamiento de La Paz | Mexico | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Una situación recurrente en la administración pública es el tema presupuestal debido a que las problemáticas a resolver son muy diversas y el recurso económico escaso, debido a ello la ciudad de La Paz debe encontrar los mecanismos adecuados de financiamiento para la realización de planes, proyectos y programas que orienten el desarrollo integral de la ciudad. Actualmente el desafío consiste en la búsqueda de esquemas efectivos de financiamiento que permitan la realización de acciones sustanciales para la ciudad. | ||
| 92 | Cities 2020 | 54700 | Prefeitura Municipal de Sumaré | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | A crise econômica de 2016, e atualmente com a crise causada pela pandemia do novo coronavírus, o orçamento do município teve drástica redução, o que faz com que gastos não considerados essenciais sejam cortados, o que inclui gastos com melhoria do meio ambiente e demais projetos diversos de melhoria que serão postergados para após a recuperação econômica. | |
| 93 | Cities 2020 | 55801 | City of West Palm Beach | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | The City's budget ultimately determines the funding for sustainable initiatives. If there were to be budget cuts throughout the City, sustainability programming and marketing may be effected. As of June 2020, the City's general fund budget is temporarily frozen due COVID-19 related constraints. | |
| 94 | Cities 2020 | 58346 | Plymouth City Council | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Local Authority budgets are already severely stretched - Covid 19 has increased this pressure. Any additional pressures on these will not be easy to divert resource to. | |
| 95 | Cities 2020 | 58357 | City of West Hollywood | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | West Hollywood is a fairly wealthy small city, but amidst the pandemic, our economic future is uncertain. It remains to be seen what impact the coronavirus will have on our economic future, but it will likely mean our resources will be strained to pay for adaptation needs over the next few years, perhaps longer. | |
| 96 | Cities 2020 | 58483 | City of Surrey | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 6 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Restricted budgets lead to reduced capacity to opt for projects aimed at adaptation activities. | |
| 97 | Cities 2020 | 58485 | Abington Township | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | The Township has not had the resources or expertise to develop a thorough adaptation plan, in order to obtain reliable data in regard to adaptation.measures. In addition, the sars-cov-2 has significantly decreased our resources and collected taxes, particularly from businesses within our jurisdiction. | |
| 98 | Cities 2020 | 58489 | Hoeje-Taastrup Kommune | Denmark | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | With several other issues in the municipality and a tight budget the climate change agenda often has a low priority. | |
| 99 | Cities 2020 | 58513 | City of Medford | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | While the City of Medford is very committed to working on climate change mitigation and adaptation activities as seen through Mayor Stephanie Burke's participation in the Metro Mayor's climate commitments, funding has to compete with operational funds for pressing and urgent activities such as police, fire, schools, and road infrastructure. | ||
| 100 | Cities 2020 | 58531 | City of Somerville, MA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Somerville has limited budgetary capacity to make necessary infrastructure upgrades to increase community climate resilience. |
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This dataset contains public responses to the 2020 Cities Questionnaire for cities that cited 'budgetary capacity' as a barrier to adaptation in question 2.2 - 'Please identify and describe the factors that most greatly affect your city’s ability to adapt to climate change and indicate how those factors either support or challenge this ability.'
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