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Urban Resilience Practices To Climate
Change: Case Of Denizli

location will depend on the socio-economic level and vulnerability of the
affected groups (DBB, 2019: 108). The studies aiming for creating a resilient
city are given below:

3. Resilient City Against Climate Change: Denizli Application Area

Funded as part of the European Union Instrument for Pre-accession
Assistance (IPA) and implemented under the supervision of the Central Finance
and Contracts Unit and the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate
Change in the scope of the Capacity Building in the Field of Climate Change
in Türkiye, the project Power the Revolution for Climate Action Project was
implemented under the coordination of Denizli Metropolitan Municipality.
The project was implemented in Denizli for 24 months.
The main aims of the project are
• To contribute to the national efforts towards mitigation of
greenhouse gasses in the fight against climate change,
• To adapt to the current and potential effects of climate change on
humans and ecological systems through mitigating these effects,
• And to raise awareness on municipality personnel and local decision
makers concerning climate change.
Within the framework of the project, Denizli Climate Change Action Plan
(2016-2030), involving mitigation and adaptation actions was prepared. With
this action plan, Denizli became the third metropolitan city to prepare a
mitigation and adaptation action plan. The plan aims for a 21% decrease in
the increases in greenhouse gases in Denizli as of 2030. This target is in line
with national as well as international targets.
a. Denizli Climate Change Action Plan
The vision of action plans has been determined as “rendering Denizli
an exemplary low-carbon, climate-resilient city”. In the light of this vision,
a realistic goal has been set to decrease 21% greenhouse gas emissions at
the city scale by 21%. Considering the National Determined Contribution
(NDC) of Türkiye, the target year has been determined as 2030. It has been
decided to set this goal for mitigation of greenhouse gas increases in line
with the national goals of Türkiye, and considering the population increase
in the target year, to set the target as per capita. It is possible to render the
city resilient against climate change and achieve emission mitigation targets
through the leadership of Denizli Metropolitan Municipality and the high level
of awareness among the stakeholders.

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