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Better cities
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Building better cities: responding to the twin challenge of inequality and climate change
How can cities promote resilient, low-carbon and just urbanisation, in a context of increasing climate breakdown and inequality? IIED’s urban researchers set out a vision for urban transformation to build just and inclusive cities
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Embracing disruptive resilience
The risks that cities face are becoming more extreme (with more outlier events), teleconnected (where events in one place lead to disturbances in another) and complex (where multiple hazards unfold
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Urban climate justice: connecting social justice and decarbonisation
Cities in the global South can leapfrog the carbon-intensive trajectories forged by the global North by supporting decarbonisation – the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions – and responding to lo
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No climate justice without housing justice
Climate justice in cities must align with efforts to tackle urban poverty and inequality so that efforts to reduce emissions do not deepen but instead tackle housing injustices
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Making the most of migration: mobility in the context of the climate emergency
IIED’s framework for a transformative urban recovery includes calls for the inclusion of migrants, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in p
