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Although decision-makers involved in urban development have started to recognize the severity of the impact of urban built environments on climate, a sufficient level of action has yet to be achieved particularly at the local level in many countries. Turkey, as a developing country, has been putting efforts in producing national-level action plans for the last two decades. Although these attempts are fundamental for achieving targets in the process of combating the climate crisis, the local climate action planning takes place independent from the national efforts yet with a commitment to international agreements. These voluntary individual institutional attempts, in turn, result in struggles for local authorities. Taking this as a point of departure, this chapter focuses on the experienced barriers and factors of failure in the implementation of local plans through a participatory inquiry conducted with 13 municipalities in Turkey. Challenges are explored through a set of group interviews and participatory workshops with representatives from the municipalities. The findings reveal that shared challenges are related to decisions, regulations, institutional and financial capacity, and governance. The shared significant potential way out of the deadlock is the activation of a cross-levelled interaction between national and local governance mechanism. |
