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1. Quito’s Green Urban Network:
a local adaptation initiative
Carolina Zambrano-Barragán
Metropolitan Director of Environmental Policy and Planning
Municipality of the Metropolitan District of Quito

2. Why Quito?

3. CC Impacts In Quito’s Metropolitan District
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Ecosystems and
Energy
Energy biodiversity
More frequent
More frequent
Glacier retreat/
Glacier retreat/ Temperature
Temperature Precipitation
Precipitation and intense
and intense
loss of paramos
loss of paramos rise (+1.2°C)
rise (+1.2°C) decrease (-8%)
decrease (-8%) extreme weather
extreme weather
events
events
Health
Drinking water
provision Productive
systems

4. Decisio-making under uncertainty
• Flexible socio-institutional process
• Knowledge generation and management
• Portfolio of measures and options (including
progressive investments and pilot projects)
• Periodic monitoring of results and changes

5. Quito’s Environmental Agenda 2011-2016
• Reduce vulnerability to CC by 20%
• Reduce GHG emissions by 15%, in relation to
BAU
• Reach an urban green space index of
9m2/inhabitant
• Reduce the ecological footprint by 20%, in
relation to projected growth
Quito’s Climate Change Strategy (2009)
Quito’s Climate Action Plan (5 yr
horizon)

6. GREEN URBAN NETWORK- Projects
2. Pichincha
1. Green Corridors
Volcano’s Route
4. Sustainable
3. Urban buildings and Green
Agriculture Roofs

7. Green Urban Network
1. Green Corridors 3. Urban Agriculture
2. Pichincha´s Volcano Route 4. Green Roofs and
solar panels

8. Breakthroughs 2011
Green corridors
• 22 linear km reforested
• 5000 citizens mobilized
• 35 institutions participated
Pichincha Volcano Route
• Freedom and Humboldt Routes identified
• 3 ha for camping and picnics
• 20 km of paths marked
• 3 buildings rescued for education purposes
Urban agriculture (since 2005)
• 65 microenterprises created/ 48 popular investment companies
• 992 urban orchards/ 263 microgreenhouses
• 16200 people trained
• 13 biofairs
Green roofs and sustainable buildings
• 1400 m2 of green roofs
• 260 houses with solar water-heating systems
• 8 municipal buildings w/ green roofs; 1 municipal pool w/ solar heating system

9. 5-year plan
Green corridors
• Reforestation of 80 km of streets/avenues
• Restoration of 10 km of ravines
• Revitalization of 20 neighborhood parks
Pichincha Volcano Route
• Humboldt Route
• Freedom Route
• Urban agroforestry school
Urban agriculture
• Germoplasm and Seed Bank
• 100 urban orchards
• Micro-business and inclusive fairs
Green roofs and sustainable building
• 30.000 m2 of green terraces, 220 solar panels
• 3.000 water-heating solar panels and rainwater collection systems in
public housing projects
• Alternative energy in Transportation System’s Stations

11. Total 5-year Investment
Total new investment: $ 12 056 000
(Invested so far by MDMQ: $ 4 000 000)

12. Final considerations
• Policy innovation
• Basis for a new regulatory framework
(building code- incentives)
• Local Environmental Trust fund for project
funding
• Replication potential (social housing
projects)- basis for future development
• Multiple benefits- green+ resilience+
social mobilization (Green volunteer
program)

13. Thank you! / Gracias!
czambrano@quitoambiente.gob.ec
www.quitoambiente.gob.ec