As member of the team Infras/Brandes/TARU Othmar Schwank has been supporting SDC in the development of a “local climate action cooperation programme” at city level in 2014/2015. The programme aims at improving the environmental governance and application of best practices/tools in sectors such as climate and environment smart city level planning, public awareness, green buildings, transport, water/wastewater and climate risk management. This project has been tendered and awarded by SDC in 2015.