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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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| 101 | Cities 2020 | 58543 | Byron Shire Council | Australia | Southeast Asia and Oceania | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | Byron Shire Council is a small local government area, and therefore has limiting funding. There is a risk that Council will not have the financial capacity to fund the works required in the future, including: the development of identified strategies, and in managing the community expectations associated with the impacts of the climate change scenarios. | |
| 102 | Cities 2020 | 58569 | City of Podgorica | Montenegro | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | The city budget characterized lack of financial resources for the implementation of projects for the improvement of infrastructures and services. One of the main challenges for implementation is to find ways to finance planned activities and climate change adaptation measures. New forms of schemes and modern structures of financing, known as public-private partnerships, certainly represent a possible model for the distribution of costs and benefits of the implemented measure. In this way, we will avoid the previous traditional financing from the public sector and enable the private sector investments, against certain benefits. To that effect, we will single out ecosystem services related to flood protection and protection against soil erosion, which is directly related to climate change and healthy ecosystems, and represent essential protection against some of the most extreme impacts. For these reasons, it is necessary to have a comprehensive and integrated approach to the preservation and improvement of ecosystems, and "goods and services" they provide. The particularity of considering the financial framework is related to the analysis of costs and benefits of pre-defined measures. Sometimes new and unplanned costs arise in the process of implementing measures, e.g. for construction or maintenance. Likewise, it is possible to cause unplanned maintenance costs in other infrastructure systems by a measure's implementation. On the other part, as a result of prevention, costs can be estimated too high. | |
| 103 | Cities 2020 | 58597 | Municipalidad de La Unión | Costa Rica | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | En el caso del gobierno local, se requieren mayor cantidad de recursos para reducir la vulnerabilidad de la cantón, especialmente en el desarrollo de infraestructura resiliente e incidencia en el transporte público. Este aspecto se ha intensificado aún más con la situación de pandemia que vive nuestro país lo cual impacta las finanzas municipales | |
| 104 | Cities 2020 | 58613 | City of York Council | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Budgetary constraints impact on our ability to fully adapt to the anticipated increase in flooding in the way needed to protect residents and businesses from future disruption | |
| 105 | Cities 2020 | 58626 | City of Racine, WI | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Like most municipal governments, budget concerns pose challenges for climate change adaptation planning. | ||
| 106 | Cities 2020 | 58671 | Helsingør Kommune / Elsinore Municipality | Denmark | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Somewhat challenges | Helsingør Municipality has allocated and provided sufficient staff and financial resources for the first phase and year of the implementation of the Climate and Sustainability Plan 2020-2030. Since 2009, the Climate Secretariat's annual budget has been around DKK 1-2 million for the climate work, in addition to the budget for the chief consultant. Further economic resources have been allocated to the work on the coast and to secure climate adaptation in this context. However, there is a lack of economic resources to cover a long-term strategic climate adaptation. | |
| 107 | Cities 2020 | 58796 | Odder Kommune | Denmark | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Further ressources will have to be allocated to countering the consequnces of climate changes. | ||
| 108 | Cities 2020 | 59165 | Gladsaxe Kommune | Denmark | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Limits the pace of change | ||
| 109 | Cities 2020 | 59166 | Municipalidad de Independencia | Chile | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Dificultad en priorizar recursos económicos en incentivos para la gestión de acciones en adaptación y mitigación en cambio climático. | |
| 110 | Cities 2020 | 59538 | City of Mississauga | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Municipal budgets have many pressures and competing priorities. | ||
| 111 | Cities 2020 | 59545 | City of Charlottesville, VA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Limited funds for initial improvements | ||
| 112 | Cities 2020 | 59572 | District of Saanich, BC | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 5 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | While the District recognizes the value of investing in climate adaptation measures, competing priorities, ageing facilities and infrastructure and a desire to limit property tax increases, mean that budgets do not always cover climate adaptation work. | |
| 113 | Cities 2020 | 59631 | City of San Leandro, CA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | City budgets are constrained; grant funding must be obtained for comprehensive adaption actions and comprehensive planning. | |
| 114 | Cities 2020 | 59633 | City of Santa Cruz, CA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Especially with covid and recent fires, Lack of resources prevents more accelerated handling of adaptation. This will be particularly acute once we understand our long term vision for coastal reseilience to sea level rise and what measures will be needed to build that resilience. It is sure to be costly. | |
| 115 | Cities 2020 | 59642 | City of Dublin, CA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | The limited budget constrains the resources, especially including staff time, that can be spent on adaptation projects and measures. | |
| 116 | Cities 2020 | 59644 | City of Culver City, CA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 6 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | The City of Culver City, like many local agencies, has been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic economically. The City is planning for impending increases in pension costs, the financial impact the Coronavirus will continue to have on the economy, the decrease in interest rates, which reduces the City's return on investments, and the prediction from many astute economists that an economic downturn in the near future is inevitable. In response, the City has implemented significant budget cuts for the 2020/21 fiscal year to reduce the impacts on its long-term financial forecast. | |
| 117 | Cities 2020 | 59678 | City of Evanston, IL | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | The City is currently experiencing a revenue contraction which has strained City resources as costs continue to rise. Without structural fixes to this contraction Evanston will likely continue to find it difficult to take proactive action to reduce climate risk and adapt to impending changes. | ||
| 118 | Cities 2020 | 59958 | Tweed Shire Council | Australia | Southeast Asia and Oceania | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events coupled with limited existing funds for nature conservation and improvement are budgetary challenges. | |
| 119 | Cities 2020 | 60073 | Wolverhampton City Council | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | As the public sector has faced huge financial cuts over the last decade, the Council is struggling to find available financial resource to hire a dedicated Climate Change team that could coordinate the city's approach. | |
| 120 | Cities 2020 | 60126 | Tartu City Council | Estonia | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Somewhat challenges | City have different challenges and needs to fulfill. The need for different investments is great and therefore it is not possible to carry out all the necessary activities for the desired time.High. | |
| 121 | Cities 2020 | 60168 | Derry City & Strabane | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 7 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Budgetary capacity of business, industry and households to deliver adaptation actions are critical. This includes resources to purchase cooling equipment, respond to flooding and bounce back after shocks. Resource availability can prove a challenge to the ability of organisations such as Council to adapt to climate change, including resources to change equipment, working practices, deliver training and engagement and changes in infrastructure. | ||
| 122 | Cities 2020 | 60216 | City of Växjö | Sweden | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Somewhat challenges | The municipal budget needs to be shared between different priorities. And climate hazards may occur unexepectedly. | |
| 123 | Cities 2020 | 60236 | Municipality of Trelleborg | Sweden | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Protecting properties and houses along the coastline against sea level rise entails large costs. A lot of inhabitants live nere the coast line. Sea level raising is a total threat to this highly desired lifestyle and to the economic value of the properties. This group of tax payers is very important for the municipality´s finances. | |
| 124 | Cities 2020 | 60307 | Prefeitura de Nova Friburgo | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Limitação orçamentária para atuação nas áreas de redução de riscos de mudanças climáticas e de desastres naturais. Grau: Alto | ||
| 125 | Cities 2020 | 60349 | Prefeitura de São Leopoldo | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | A crise econômica global e nacional afeta a economia local tendo como principal impacto o desemprego, a diminuição significativa de receita dos órgãos públicos, em especial as prefeituras e a escassez de recursos para enfrentar os enormes desafios que se estabelecem para o combate as mudanças climáticas. No último período houve uma redução significativa de receita municipal e por outro lado há uma necessidade, cada vez maior, de implantar políticas de enfrentamento da crise econômica e do aumento da pobreza, esta demanda se impõe, sobretudo aos municípios num esforço ainda maior e uma necessidade de dispender mais recurso para setores sociais. | |
| 126 | Cities 2020 | 60369 | Alcaldía Municipal de Armenia | Colombia | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | |||
| 127 | Cities 2020 | 60374 | Alcaldía de Ibagué | Colombia | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | se queda poco el presupuesto económico para todo lo que se pretende realizar por ello se ha buscado demasiado financiamiento externo para poder realizar todos los proyectos que la comunidad ibaguereña requiere en temas de mitigacion y adaptación al cambio climático. | ||
| 128 | Cities 2020 | 60379 | Alcaldía de Tunja | Colombia | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 7 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | |||
| 129 | Cities 2020 | 60388 | Municipalidad Provincial de Chiclayo | Peru | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 11 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | POCA CAPTACION DE RECURSOS PROPIOS ALTA MOROSIDAD EN EL PAGO DELOS ARBITRIOS Y AUTOVALUO DE LA POBLACION.LA MOROSIDAD SE HA INCREMENTADO CONSECUENCIA DE LA CRISIS GENERADA POR LA PANDEMIA DEL COVID 19 | ||
| 130 | Cities 2020 | 60392 | Municipalidad de San Isidro (Lima) | Peru | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Los recursos de los gobiernos locales están determinados por los servicios que presta. Es poco lo que generan para poder ejecutar proyectos de inversión en tecnologías para adaptación al cambio climático, y su capacidad de endeudamiento es limitada por las propias normas . A la fecha las Asociaciones Público Privadas parecen ser la mejor solución, pero por ser ciudades con escasa población no siempre resultan atractivas a los inversionistas. | ||
| 131 | Cities 2020 | 60393 | Municipalidad de Santiago | Chile | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | El financiamiento es un elemento central para apoyar una agenda de adaptación y para establecer un sistema de gobernanza inclusivo con vecinos y funcionarios municipales; el financiamiento es necesario para restaurar y expandir áreas verdes; para desarrollar planes de alerta temprana, para desarrollar campañas de educación referente al manejo de olas de calor, etc. | |
| 132 | Cities 2020 | 60409 | Municipalidad Provincial de Callao | Peru | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Para implementación de medidas se requiere inversión con la que no se dispone actualmente | ||
| 133 | Cities 2020 | 60410 | Municipalidad de Peñalolén | Chile | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | El presupuesto de la municipalidad es acotado, y las acciones del PLCC compiten con servicios básicos. Por esto es que debe constantemente transversalizarse el trabajo o buscar fuentes de financiamiento externas que apoyen la realización de proyectos en la comuna. Ante esto, la generación de alianzas estratégicas es clave | |
| 134 | Cities 2020 | 60433 | City of Hvidovre | Denmark | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | The frequency and effects of climate related hazards will rise and this will pressure the budgetary capacity. | |
| 135 | Cities 2020 | 60603 | City of Prince George, BC | Canada | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Competing priorities make it difficult to fund adaptation projects. | ||
| 136 | Cities 2020 | 60656 | City of Piedmont, CA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Being a small, residential community, Piedmont faces limited budgetary and government capacity. The City is currently understaffed, with no staff member dedicated to sustainability. The City's limited funds prevent there from being a dedicated staff member, as a result there is limited capacity to address adaptation. | ||
| 137 | Cities 2020 | 61790 | City of Emeryville, CA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | The City budget is not designed with climate change and adaptability efforts in mind. Instead, it focuses on long-term fiscal sustainability and reflects strategies to reduce costs and pay down the City’s unfunded pension liability. The fiscal strategies utilized to balance the budget are consistent with the City’s budget philosophy for long-range planning and effective program management. The goal is to enhance the City’s financial security into the future recognizing that expenditures are expected to outpace revenue growth in the next several years, especially due to rising pension costs. A revenue study is underway to identify viable revenue options. Hopefully, once the new revenues are identified and with new federal and state directives to make climate change a priority, all the cities around would design budgets around addressing climate change. | ||
| 138 | Cities 2020 | 62791 | City of Botosani | Romania | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | |||
| 139 | Cities 2020 | 62855 | Egedal Municipality | Denmark | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | Many climate adaption actions are expensive and challenge the municpal's budget. | |
| 140 | Cities 2020 | 63941 | Broward County, FL | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Many of our adaptation projects have or will require State or grant funding, which has many competing priorities. | ||
| 141 | Cities 2020 | 68296 | Hobsons Bay City Council | Australia | Southeast Asia and Oceania | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Moderately challenges | Hobsons Bay is in a rate capped environment where allocating funds to climate change adaptation is difficult with BAU budgets. | |
| 142 | Cities 2020 | 68373 | Prefeitura de Pedreira | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | O respectivo fator é um gargalo para desapropriações estratégicas | |
| 143 | Cities 2020 | 68388 | Prefeitura de Morungaba | Brazil | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Desafio em obter recursos internos para reconstruir o que foi danificado e/ou adequar as estruturas públicas para prevenir novas ocorrências. | ||
| 144 | Cities 2020 | 69824 | Västervik | Sweden | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | The Costs for adaptation will be high but probably even higher if no measures are implemented. Distribution of responsibility for costs of measures is a huge challenge | ||
| 145 | Cities 2020 | 69995 | Kemi | Finland | Europe | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Poor economical situation of Kemi city complicates all the actions | ||
| 146 | Cities 2020 | 73301 | City of Gretna, LA | United States of America | North America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 1 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Addressing any one of the issues identified above in a comprehensive manner would require substantial cuts to core public service provisions. | ||
| 147 | Cities 2020 | 73645 | KwaDukuza | South Africa | Africa | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 13 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | |||
| 148 | Cities 2020 | 73694 | Chacabuco | Argentina | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 3 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | La definición y sostenimiento de medidas que disminuyan el riesgo en general requieren de inversiones en infraestructura, personal, capacitación y/o recursos humanos. Por su escaso presupuesto el municipio sólo puede sostener algunos de los sistemas e infraestructuras que se requerirían | ||
| 149 | Cities 2020 | 73701 | San Carlos Sud | Argentina | Latin America | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 2 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | La capacidad presupuestaria es una limitante a la hora de pensar en autonomía del municipio para generar cambios infraestructurales grandes, por lo que se depende estrictamente de la provincia. Este aspecto podría afectar a la capacidad de adaptación a futuro. | |
| 150 | Cities 2020 | 73703 | City of Port Phillip | Australia | Southeast Asia and Oceania | Climate Hazards and Vulnerability | Climate Hazards | 4 | Budgetary capacity | Challenges | Significantly challenges | Lack of investment in mitigation strategies.Lack of investment in adaptation options. |
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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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