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Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities
Publication, 15 April 2024
Climate action for equitable cities: working with informal communities to develop low carbon, resilient futures
Article, 15 April 2024
Navigating conflict: my difficult journey to become a new climate change negotiator
Insight, 03 November 2023
IIED deepens links with largest global network of local governments
News, 12 March 2024
Building better cities: responding to the twin challenge of inequality and climate change
… disruptive resilience : to tackle disruptive risks such as the climate emergency and COVID-19, cities must embrace innovative approaches that build resilience  Urban … to tackle urban poverty and inequality so that the impacts of climate change and efforts to reduce emissions do not deepen but instead tackle …
Article, 23 June 2022
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Better cities are possible: responding to the twin crises of climate change and inequality
… How can cities promote resilient, low-carbon and just urbanisation, in a context of increasing climate breakdown and inequality? Here, IIED’s urban researchers set out … planning that tackles the twin crises of inequality and climate change will depend on local and scientific data on risk and inequality, …
Publication, 21 June 2022
IPCC report signposts pathways to climate-resilient future for cities
… The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released last week provides a definitive assessment of the … urban change. What does the report say about climate impacts in cities? The authors describe how climate change is already negatively …
Insight, 09 March 2022
How can local urban priorities connect with responses at global level to the climate crisis?
… Hondo has been deadened by waste. Naucalpan is one of the five focus cities of the Transformative Urban Coalitions project (IKI-TUC) in Latin America, a project that wants to make sure climate mitigation efforts are underpinned by equitable development and … social justice. It has people at its heart: some who are concerned to change the urban environments they live in to improve their quality of …
Insight, 26 October 2022
Urban climate justice: connecting social justice and decarbonisation
… Cities in the global South can leapfrog the carbon-intensive … Green-blue infrastructure and nature-based solutions can deliver on climate targets and health and social benefits. Informal housing … for urban transformation that responds to the twin crises of climate change and inequality. The problem Global climate justice movements and …
Article, 23 June 2022
Transformative food systems governance and the environmental agenda: lessons from the national and city level
… but are also critically vulnerable, to the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Yet, governance plays a … local representatives to present and discuss the key findings of the research and the discussion paper 'Food systems governance and the …
Event, 13 September 2023