Urban Climate Resilience

Building Safe and Equitable Climate-Resilient Cities for All

By |2024-01-05T12:55:30+01:00July 4th 2023|

In the face of escalating climate-related disasters, Ron Harris and Jordana Vasquez from the Resilient Cities Network discuss strategies and tools for building resilient cities.

Urban Climate Resilience

Growing a Greener City: Erbil’s Roadmap to Climate Adaptation

By |2024-01-05T12:55:48+01:00June 27th 2023|

In response to rapid urbanisation and climate change impacts in Erbil, Iraq, Sinam Hawro Yakoob, highlights how a community-driven initiative has set an ambitious goal of planting one million indigenous oak trees to enhance the city’s environment and its capacity to adapt to climate change.

Energy in Cities

Powering Africa’s Future: Leading the Energy Transition with Covenant of Mayors (CoM SSA)

By |2024-01-04T16:41:43+01:00April 4th 2023|

CoM SSA supports cities to access clean and resilient energy, lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce costs and boost employment. The best part: these cities do not need their own investment.

Risk and Crisis Management

Health Implications of Urban Heat and Air Pollution & Resilience Planning for African Cities

By |2024-01-04T16:39:08+01:00October 11th 2022|

Urban heat and air pollution in the built environment are interlinked and contribute to increased negative health impacts among urban dwellers. Sharon Onyango highlights the connection between these three factors within the transport sector developments in Africa, providing various urban planning strategies for mitigation to improve human health and wellbeing.

Collaborative Climate Action: A Pre-Requisite for More Ambitious Climate Policy

By |2024-01-04T14:54:10+01:00May 18th 2021|

The GIZ publication "Collaborative Climate Action - A Pre-Requisite for more Ambitious Climate Policy" explains why fighting climate change and its negative impacts requires the systematic cooperation of all governmental levels in order to be successful.

Climate Change: What Happens to People Living in Informal Settlements?

By |2024-01-04T08:55:19+01:00January 16th 2020|

At COP25, the Desk Officer for Sustainable Urban Development at MISEREOR, Clara-Luisa Weichelt, talked to Emanuela Barbiroglio about the challenges of addressing climate change in informal settlements and human-rights based solutions.

Does Cultural Heritage Make More Resilient Cities?

By |2024-01-04T08:43:28+01:00October 10th 2019|

When disasters hit, cultural heritage is often perceived as something passive, something hit by destruction. Conservation architect and risk management expert Rohit Jigyasu argues for a different perception: one that acknowledges the decisive role urban cultural heritage can play both in the prevention and in the outcome of natural disaster, making it an active component of urban resilience.

Climate Resilient Infrastructure – the Way Forward

By |2024-01-04T08:47:27+01:00September 5th 2019|

Current design standards for building infrastructure are based on outdated, historic climate data. In the face of climate change, planning, operation, maintenance, and management of infrastructure need to be revised, says urban environmental planner Riya Rahiman.

Taking Cues from People’s Movements for Governing Climate Change Induced Migration

By |2024-01-02T18:42:59+01:00January 8th 2019|

An increasing number of droughts, floods, and other hazards mean that more and more people are deciding to migrate. Ritwika Basu describes what is needed at the governance level to deal with climate change induced migration.

The Need for Radical Transformation: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town, South Africa

By |2024-01-02T18:47:25+01:00November 27th 2018|

It can no longer be denied that climate change has severe effects on our daily lives. As a response, the City of Cape Town has developed a policy that acknowledges climate change impacts as a pressing social and economic issue.

Learning from a Frontrunner: German and U.S. Towns Partner on Climate Action

By |2024-01-02T11:29:41+01:00March 12th 2018|

Saerbeck, Germany’s award-winning climate protection project serves as a model for many other towns. Ulrich Gunka shows how the municipality, working with its citizens, transformed a former army ammunition depot into a bioenergy park and how it shares their insights with other cities in the world.

Hurricane Irma and its impact on Haitian cities

By |2023-12-19T15:30:26+01:00November 16th 2017|

With rising ocean water temperatures due to climate change, hurricanes are becoming stronger and last longer. This year, the Caribbean and parts of the US were hit by hurricane Irma, a particularly devastating storm. How can costal cities prepare for such disasters, and mitigate their effects? In an interview, Joseph Severe, Jean Frantz Jure and Nicolas Jean talk about the situation in Haiti.

Make or break: How the city of tomorrow will shape our future

By |2023-12-19T15:18:24+01:00August 15th 2017|

"Building cities able to accommodate half a billion people over the next 30 years is one of the biggest transformations of our planet and we have to get it right", Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary-General stated at the Langenburg Forum for Sustainability. Read the full speech here on URBANET

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