Adapting Cities

Capacity Strengthening in Least Developed Countries for Adaptation to Climate Change (CLACC) Cities Studies

These studies provide a set of city level maps showing risks and vulnerability to climate change related extreme events and gradual changes. An explicit focus in the areas where there are few if any maps, they open dialogue with those living in these areas and help bring their concerns and priorities to the fore.

Climate change and cities: why urban agendas are central to adaptation and mitigation

Hannah Reid and David Satterthwaite

Cities have a bad reputation for being the epicentre of pollution, but could in fact hold the key to slowing and eventually stopping global warming.

Adapting Cities to Climate Change

To date, discussions of how to address climate change have focused far more on mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions) than adaptation (coping with the storms, floods, sea-level rise and other impacts that climate change will bring). This page brings together material on adapting cities to climate change in low and middle-income nations.