This research project focuses on "Transformation through transportation" in the context of City Climate Action Plans, which aim to address the challenges posed by urbanization, fractured urban governance, and climate change. In India, fractured urban governance and rapid urbanization has resulted in significant challenges related to climate change. As a result, many Indian Cities such as Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore are in the process of developing the City Climate Action Plans to address the challenges and promote the sustainable urban growth. Even though there is the overall framework for the formulation of city climate action plans, due to the triple challenges of urbanization, fractured governance and climate change, CAP could not effectively function in the respective city context. However, there is also a lack of framework for sectors which could increase the effectiveness of Climate Action Plan by resolving the implementation, financial, institutional problems. 
Hence, we the group of four members examined the Chennai City Climate Action Plan as a case example, with each member focusing on one of the three main sectors: transport, energy, and waste, while another member looked at the overall methodological framework. This report focuses on the transport sector of Climate Action Plan. Transportation directly affects the quality of people’s life and is often the main aspect of accessing day to day activities such as education, employment, and essential services. Hence, transport sector is the crucial component in CAP, where cities should develop low carbon road map.
The process began by reviewing sector specific literature studies, analyzing global best practices, with the aim of developing a framework for which takes into account of the technical, cross-sectoral, and governance aspects of the Climate Action Plan. The literature study had been conducted to understand the interlinkages between Climate change, city, and the transport sector. Mainly, literature study focuses on the triple challenges of urbanization, governance, and climate change with respect to the transport sector. The cities of Jakarta, Durban and Mumbai were selected based on the geographical location, economic growth, and sector specialization. The idea behind doing this case study is to get the clear picture of climate action planning, its challenges, and implications. The case study had been looked up via certain aspects of public participation, approach towards projects, funding mechanisms and coming up with different strategies and methodologies. The learnings and outcomes from these case studies will help in developing the framework and analyzing Chennai City Climate Plan in a better way. The framework had been developed for looking at transport sector in climate action planning. Following the conventional method of fragmenting the structure into seven sections, some of which include several subcomponents. The seven head framework is developed for the transport sector of Climate Action Plan. 
The Chennai City Climate Action Plan have been analyzed with the developed framework to identify areas for improvement which would be contextualized to the triple challenges of urbanization, fractured urban governance and climate change. This report conducted consultations with key stakeholders at multiple levels of government to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the various aspects of Climate Action Planning. The consultations took place at different levels, including the Chennai city level, the state level of Tamil Nadu, and with implementation agencies, in order to gather insights and perspectives on the planning process from a wide range of stakeholders. The recommendations have been framed taken into considerations of insights from the key stakeholders. A thorough analysis was conducted on the draft Chennai City Climate Action Plan in this report, which involved identifying gaps and creating recommendations to address these gaps at each level of the developed framework. The report also provides with additional recommendations at each level of government such as to the Chennai City, the state of Tamil Nadu, and the national government of India, with the aim of helping to achieve the global target of limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C. Our recommendations were explored by a multi-perspective approach that considered implementation, operability, and improved governance across different levels of government. By providing context-specific recommendations, we aimed to promote effective action on climate change that takes into account the triple challenge of urbanization, fractured urban governance, and climate change.