Items tagged:
Climate change and 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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Expert Group Meeting on Population Dynamics and Climate Change
London. June 09 Papers from this meeting are now available as downloadable pdfs.
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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.
