3.4 Analysis
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Table 3.4
(continued)
‘We also work with the IPCC and we are the lead authors of specific reports’ (Respondent 9). In the Paris
Agreement in 2015, there was an organisation that was established, called C40—it is a group of 90 cities that
come together in a forum, which is funded by Marko Bloomberg, to discuss climate change and to exchange
and share information and knowledge. They have a few programmes. Our Mayor, Ms Gumede
, is the Vice President of C40, so Durban plays a prominent role in it. One of the C40 projects was to
disaggregate what the Paris Agreement meant for cities. C40 then commissioned the research called Deadline
2020, from which there were a number of offshoots, one of them being that certain cities were chosen as pilot
cities in which to develop climate implementation action plans. These action plans cover thematic areas of
mitigation and adaptation and I am certain that water security features highly in those plans, at least from an
adaptation point of view. Over and above that, we are busy with a C40 programme right now which involves
new buildings in the city. Initially, the core element of this programme was the carbon element’ (Respondent 12)
Participation and
knowledge production on
a specific global
governance issue
translating into specific
local government
objectives and
programmes (interactive
governance at
international level)
The municipality will sub-contract smaller SMMEs to clear alien invasive plants and promote the spread of
indigenous vegetation (Respondent 5). eThekwini ‘…work[s] a lot with private companies, and the SMMEs
that have been established through the [WfE] are now being hired by eThekwini to implement their projects’
(Respondent 8)
‘A lot of the work will be community-based and require public participation. Very seldom will you find the
municipality going out and doing things unilaterally. I don’t think it is part of our ethos or culture, as the
eThekwini Municipality, to do things unilaterally. So, stakeholder involvement and consultation is critical. Even
the Durban Climate Change Strategy [DCCS] was not a desktop strategy with somebody sitting behind a screen
and writing the strategy. We have been through processes that were very iterative, and where we went through
the stages of consultation with NGOs, other government departments, private citizens and academia. So, I
would say that stakeholders are consulted. Now the next part is to get the neighbouring municipalities on board’
(Respondent 12)
Contractual collaboration
between the municipality
and Small, Medium and
Micro-enterprises
(SMMEs) and
communities for specific
ecological infrastructure
services
‘We are also working on a coastal project with Cathy [from UKZN] and we have put in an application to
WIOMSA [the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association] to partner with Mombasa regarding the
Western Indian Ocean, in the form of a learning exchange partnership’ (Respondent 9)
Epistemic local and
international collaboration
within an institutionalised
ocean governance
structure
(continued)
135
Table 3.4
(continued)
‘We also work with the IPCC and we are the lead authors of specific reports’ (Respondent 9). In the Paris
Agreement in 2015, there was an organisation that was established, called C40—it is a group of 90 cities that
come together in a forum, which is funded by Marko Bloomberg, to discuss climate change and to exchange
and share information and knowledge. They have a few programmes. Our Mayor, Ms Gumede
, is the Vice President of C40, so Durban plays a prominent role in it. One of the C40 projects was to
disaggregate what the Paris Agreement meant for cities. C40 then commissioned the research called Deadline
2020, from which there were a number of offshoots, one of them being that certain cities were chosen as pilot
cities in which to develop climate implementation action plans. These action plans cover thematic areas of
mitigation and adaptation and I am certain that water security features highly in those plans, at least from an
adaptation point of view. Over and above that, we are busy with a C40 programme right now which involves
new buildings in the city. Initially, the core element of this programme was the carbon element’ (Respondent 12)
Participation and
knowledge production on
a specific global
governance issue
translating into specific
local government
objectives and
programmes (interactive
governance at
international level)
The municipality will sub-contract smaller SMMEs to clear alien invasive plants and promote the spread of
indigenous vegetation (Respondent 5). eThekwini ‘…work[s] a lot with private companies, and the SMMEs
that have been established through the [WfE] are now being hired by eThekwini to implement their projects’
(Respondent 8)
‘A lot of the work will be community-based and require public participation. Very seldom will you find the
municipality going out and doing things unilaterally. I don’t think it is part of our ethos or culture, as the
eThekwini Municipality, to do things unilaterally. So, stakeholder involvement and consultation is critical. Even
the Durban Climate Change Strategy [DCCS] was not a desktop strategy with somebody sitting behind a screen
and writing the strategy. We have been through processes that were very iterative, and where we went through
the stages of consultation with NGOs, other government departments, private citizens and academia. So, I
would say that stakeholders are consulted. Now the next part is to get the neighbouring municipalities on board’
(Respondent 12)
Contractual collaboration
between the municipality
and Small, Medium and
Micro-enterprises
(SMMEs) and
communities for specific
ecological infrastructure
services
‘We are also working on a coastal project with Cathy [from UKZN] and we have put in an application to
WIOMSA [the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association] to partner with Mombasa regarding the
Western Indian Ocean, in the form of a learning exchange partnership’ (Respondent 9)
Epistemic local and
international collaboration
within an institutionalised
ocean governance
structure
(continued)