The enormous and growing literature that mixes topics like sustainable development/climate change/energy conservation/low carbon results, in part, as an unintelligible noise field that generates, more often than we would like, word phrases such as a local government’s or a planner’s ‘‘climate change initiatives’’. Local governments and/or planners do not initiate climate change! Local governments and planners do, sometimes, develop policy frameworks (and activities and actions) to adapt to climate change challenges.