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C.2. Environmentally Sustainable Cities
Strategic Measures
i. Enhance participatory and integrated approaches in urban planning
and management for sustainable urbanisation towards a clean and
green ASEAN;
ii.
Strengthen the capacity of national and local institutions to implement
strategies and programmes towards liveable cities;
iii.
Promote coordination among relevant sectors to provide access to
clean land, green public space, clean air, clean and safe water, and
sanitation;
iv.
Promote cities that are child-, youths-, the elderly/older persons-,
and persons with disabilities-friendly through enhanced
coordination with relevant sectors to provide sustainable and
accessible infrastructure systems;
v. Strengthen positive economic, social and environmental linkages
among urban, peri-urban and rural areas; and
vi.
Strengthen policies and strategies for the effective impact
management of population growth and migration on cities.
C.3. Sustainable Climate
Strategic Measures
i. Strengthen human and institutional capacity in implementing climate
change adaptation and mitigation, especially on vulnerable and
marginalised communities;
ii.
Facilitate the development of comprehensive and coherent
responses to climate change challenges, such as but not limited to
multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral approaches;
iii.
Leverage on private sector and community to have access to new
and innovative financing mechanisms to address climate change;
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