The other aims of this competition are also achieving the best quality of urban environment and forestall land use management without addressing climate change effects. Table 2. Hamburg Project-based Climate Change Initiatives Strategies Institutional Framework Climate Change Mitigation Targets Climate Change Adaptation Targets
Strategies Cut GHG emissions at least 50% by 2020 Increase the flood prevention standard Improve the quality of the urban environment Formal Policy Create a rule in investing contract and sales of the land Retain the right to negotiate in the enhancement for ensuring the project pursues the original idea Inducement and Spontaneous Introduce of Ecolabels: certificates need undermining 30 to 45% of Factors energy appeal qualifications Increase the information centre of climate change and flood awareness Positive Results in Environmental All new development areas are built above sea level at least 8 to 8.5 metres as an adaptation and mitigation due to the sea level ascent effect which following to the future climatic schemes report by IPCC Build 24% of public green open space around the city Develop 157 hectares of climate change development projects All dwelling constructions are enforced to obtain gold Ecolabel specifications (Through the informal adjustment of Ecolabel qualification, more than 300,000 m2 of building has been developed to accomplish the gold requirement within 4 years) 70% of buildings in the east of ‘Magdeburger Hafen’ have accepted the gold Ecolabel standards Create 2 hectares enhancement of public space around the city, 500 m2 (minimum) of public space at waterfront, and an ingenious heat inventory idea also have been supported by Ecolabel Source: HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, 2010; HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, 2015a; HafenCity Hamburg GmbH, 2015b
To conclude this chapter, both cities receive the same urban natural disaster experience because of climate change effect with severe high floods hazard risk in Bangkok in 2011 and Hamburg in1962. The Bangkok’s flood usually comes only from the river (Chao Phraya River) due to heavy rainfall. Meanwhile, the people who lives in the city of Hamburg is more suffered because flood came from river (Elbe River) and sea level rise also (North Sea). Consequently, both cities have different degree of strategies success for intervening those problems through the government policy such as flood risk management (Bangkok) and sustainability urban project initiatives (Hamburg). In Bangkok, several strategies which made by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) are focus on the enhancement of flood protection structural systems such as drainage, tunnels, and water pump stations. In contrast, the Hamburg city government is more focus on the development of design in long-term plan for whole urban quality standard to reduce the climate change effect and flood prevention is included on the policy plan such as increase flood awareness by creating all new areas above sea level at least 8-8.5 metres.
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