Items tagged:
Climate change and cities
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Better cities are possible: achieving resilient, low-carbon and inclusive urban development
This is a series of articles setting out a vision for urban transformation that responds to the twin crises of climate change and inequality
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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
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The health, wellbeing and climate benefits of slum upgrading
Upgrading informal settlements can foster wellbeing while also building resilience to climate change, particularly when equitable, far-sighted strategies seek to partner closely with communities and address multiple health risks
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Risks to health in informal settlements
Informal settlements (‘slums’) are widespread in cities across many low-income and middle-income countries and are now home to more than o
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Introduction to building transformative urban resilience for all
Understanding and reducing risks from climate change and disasters in urban centres
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Cities into sinks: storing carbon in wooden architecture to mitigate climate change
IIED and partners are exploring how wooden architecture might expand the forest carbon sink to help mitigate climate change while also incentivising smallholder tree-growing to drive forest landscape restoration
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Climate-induced migration and vulnerability to modern slavery
IIED and Anti-Slavery International are exploring how climate driven migration and displacement puts people at an increased risk of trafficking and slavery. The research will inform policy recommendations
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Book summary: Resilience reset − creating resilient cities in the global South
A book co-authored by IIED’s Aditya Bahadur and Thomas Tanner of SOAS makes the compelling case for a "resilience reset" – to take stock and chart a new path to enhance resilience in the world’s towns and cities, particularly in the global South
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Rethinking urban climate resilience: time for a reset?
Aditya Bahadur and guest blogger Thomas Tanner discuss their new book which explores the changing nature of climate risk in towns and cities and explains why existing approaches for tackling this risk need a shake-up
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Transforming cities, transforming lives
IIED and partners are developing, testing and disseminating a scalable approach for achieving key shifts in urban development to put cities on a path to achieving climate justice and zero-carbon emissions by 2050
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New coalition to transform cities – and lives
The new Transformative Urban Coalitions project brings IIED and partners together to change structures and values, build new urban coalitions and implement strategies leading to socially inclusive zero-carbon cities
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Shared vulnerabilities? Connecting climate and health in cities: Make Change Happen podcast episode 7
IIED's latest podcast episode explores how cross-sector learning and collaboration may be one key to creating more resilient and equitable cities
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City leaders need to rise to the climate change challenge
City leaders from around the world are meeting in Abu Dhabi for the 10th World Urban Forum on sustainable urbanisation (8-13 February). IIED director Andrew Norton and Maimunah Mohd Sharif, executive director of UN-Habitat, highlight the need for leaders to work with residents of informal settlements in order to prepare for the impacts of climate change
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How tackling climate change could tackle inequality
Sarah Colenbrander and Andrew Sudmant report on research showing that cutting greenhouse gas emissions in urban areas will benefit vulnerable residents most
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Can one billion people in informal settlements be protected from climate change?
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change convenes an international scientific conference in Canada this week to explore how to strengthen cities' ability to withstand climate change, David Satterthwaite urges them not to forget the people living in informal settlements
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Sustainable cities: the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency
A new report explores how cities can increase their resilience and resource efficiency – but highlights possible tensions between these two environmental agendas
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Climate responsive cities: a road towards the 'New Urban Agenda'?
A new book, written by local practitioners and edited by IIED, shows how cities across Asia are applying their own approaches to managing climate change risks, and finds that good governance underpins an effective response
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Fieldnotes from two cities in India: learning about social learning and climate uncertainty
How can urban planners deal with the unpredictable future impacts of climate change? IIED researchers visited two Indian cities to see how a learning-based approach can help
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Can we transform our cities?
Can cities prosper while meeting their responsibilities for acting on climate change? This is the focus of a new book by IPCC authors, co-edited by IIED's David Satterthwaite
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Comparing approaches to riverbank vulnerability in Indonesia
What lessons can be learned from two markedly different cases of vulnerability among urban riverbank settlements in Indonesia?
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The SDGs don't adequately spell out cities' role in implementation
The new development framework lays out a groundbreaking vision on the common good. But it doesn't say enough about how this is to be achieved, by whom and with what funding
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Urbanisation and the environment
Growing urban affluence tends to have profound environmental consequences, but the net impact depends heavily on how the transition is managed. IIED worked to identify the best means of making urbanisation more environmentally beneficial and less destructive
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The value and limits of urban sustainability indicators
Are indicators a useful way of increasing resource efficiency and resilience in cities – and if so, which indicators are most valuable? Loan Diep and David Dodman report back from the ICLEI World Congress
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Climate change governance in cities
Good governance is essential if cities are to become more resilient to climate change. Local authorities, citizen groups, and the private sector will need to work together, and with institutions at the national and global levels, to tackle this challenge
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Collaboration and communication: how research can help cities to build resilience
As cities in Asia face up to the challenges of a changing climate, municipal authorities are finding partnerships with researchers can help inform practice and policy
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Introduction to cities and climate change
Urban climate change risks, vulnerabilities and impacts are increasing. IIED is working with urban residents and city governments to understand these – and to develop approaches to reduce them
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New issue of Environment and Urbanization: City governance and citizen action II
The magazine includes an editorial and several papers discussing the roles of mayors and civil servants in addressing urban poverty.
