Aligning efforts to address climate change across national, provincial and city government levels – vertical integration – is important for effective climate action. This means coordinating climate policies, plans and implementation across different levels of government, maximizing the potential of each respective level through collective efforts and promoting top-down and bottom-up information exchange.
In this source you will find a suite of tools and resources which can help in the evaluation of barriers and opportunities to vertical integration, and to support the planning and implementation of strategies to improve it. These tools and resources complement the Vertical Integration Guide, which explains the principles, practices and good practice examples of enabling climate action through vertical integration.