Nature Positive Cities Efforts to Advance the Transition Durban 2024

2 Assessment of enabling environment– –Body Members Responsibilities Meeting frequency Climate Change Committee DCCS Technical Task Team (TTT)– Unit heads Implementation of DCCSEvery two months DCCS TTT Sub-Committee– Senior managers – Deputy headsSupport the DCCS TTT in project implementationEvery two months DCCS SecretariatCoordination of DCCS implementationMonthly– City Mayor – City councillorsPolitical implementation of DCCS across relevant sectorsQuarterly Energy Office CC Adaptation BranchGovernance arrangements Given the dependencies among departments, transversal committees have been created to coordinate climate-change actions (see Figure 2). These governing bodies deal exclusively with climate change. There are no such structures for biodiversity and nature-related projects and interventions. Instead, opportunities for collaboration are handled on a case-by-case basis and depend on personal relations between staff. Challenges identified –Limited cross-departmental collaboration for biodiversity management and climate change. –Controlled influence of transversal governance bodies over nature- related topics. –Limited presence of civil society, academic or other public sector representation in governance structures, despite presence in environmental protection. Improvement areas –Establish service-level agreements (SLAs) or memoranda of understanding (MoU) with other city departments to standardize systems and processes. –Define integrated targets across city departments and advocate for nature positive targets at national level. –Incorporate multiple stakeholders in the decision-making process and draw on the insights and positive influence of other sectors.FIGURE 3 Governance structure – Durban climate change strategy Nature Positive: Cities’ Efforts to Advance the Transition 24