Affordable Housing

Vertical Gardens Combat Climate Change Within African Cities

By |2024-04-30T16:03:51+02:00April 9th 2024|Housing and Construction|

Vertical gardens combat plastic pollution and urban heat, offering sustainable solutions for low-income areas. Olumuyiwa Adegun showcases two prototypes that have the potential to transform urban landscapes and prove sustainable housing does not need to be expensive or high-tech.

Informality and Social Protection

Are Environmental Protections Leaving Social Security Behind?

By |2024-02-06T12:23:46+01:00February 6th 2024|Resilient Cities and Climate|

Climate change exacerbates inequality while inequality exacerbates climate change. So, how can we break free from this cycle that disproportionately harms those communities that contribute the least to climate change, Taylor Cass Talbott asks.

COP28

Cities Inspire Food and Climate Action at COP28

By |2024-01-05T13:00:00+01:00December 15th 2023|Gender and Inequalities, Resilient Cities and Climate|

This year's COP28 finally recognises the vital connection between climate action and food, as Peter Defranceschi explains, with cities and mayors taking the lead in driving transformative change.

COP28

Cities and Climate Change: The Buildings Breakthrough at COP28

By |2024-01-05T13:00:13+01:00December 12th 2023|Housing and Construction, Sustainable Infrastructure|

The way we build our cities now will determine future emissions. Read Laura Puttkamer’s insight report from COP28 on the role of cities in battling climate change.

Energy in Cities

ClimateSmart Cities Assessment Framework: India’s Innovative Strategy for Climate Resilient Cities

By |2024-01-05T12:58:48+01:00April 27th 2023|Resilient Cities and Climate, Sustainable Infrastructure|

India's ClimateSmart Cities Assessment Framework empowers cities to tackle climate change. It's a progressive initiative with tangible actions that aims to improve the lives of citizens while building resilience to climate-related shocks.

Cities built4climate

Island States of the Global South and the Challenge of Building Urban Climate Resilience

By |2024-01-04T16:29:53+01:00November 24th 2022|Resilient Cities and Climate|

Stephania Constantinou lays focus on island and small island developing states and their task of developing climate-resilient infrastructure to safeguard their existence.

cop27

COP27: Equipping Today’s Cities for Tomorrow’s Climate Crises

By |2024-01-04T16:30:06+01:00November 21st 2022|Integrated Planning, Resilient Cities and Climate|

Lou Del Bello reports from COP27 and highlights some of the key topics, such as the war in Ukraine and the Summary for Urban Policymakers. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

Young Voices

My Biggest Question to You

By |2024-01-04T16:26:23+01:00August 11th 2022|Integrated Planning, Resilient Cities and Climate|

14-year-old climate activist and member of the BBC's 100 Most Influential and Powerful Women, Ridhima Pandey, on her hometown and what inspires her to work every day for a better and greener future for all.

Time to be Daring: Circular Cities Tackle the Climate Emergency

By |2024-01-04T15:15:51+01:00October 4th 2021|Resilient Cities and Climate, Sustainable Infrastructure|

In a world beset by multiple crises, mayors are multitaskers, crisis managers and frontline responders – and crises never wait in line. Katja Dörner, Mayor of Bonn and ICLEI Co-Chair for Climate Action on circular cities and Bonn’s promising path to becoming zero-waste.

Regenerative Cities: Co-Evolving with Our Planet

By |2024-01-04T14:07:55+01:00February 9th 2021|Integrated Planning, Resilient Cities and Climate|

Sustainability should be more than just finding ways that allow us to continue our current lifestyle, argues Chrisna du Plessis. Regenerative design strives for a future where human civilisation evolves as one part of nature that is following its own laws of circularity.

Landscape Porosity: Why we need Water-Based Urbanism

By |2024-01-04T13:42:57+01:00April 28th 2020|Good Governance, Sustainable Infrastructure|

Creating urban spaces that allow for the free flow and penetration of water and wind is essential to the survival of water-based cities like Bangkok. “Landscape porosity” can help us better understand and defend these urban ecosystems in times of climate change, says Kotchakorn Voraakhom.

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

By |2024-01-04T08:55:19+01:00January 16th 2020|Good Governance, Resilient Cities and Climate|

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.

Beyond Urban: City-Region Food Systems for Resilient and Sustainable Development

By |2024-01-04T08:40:27+01:00October 17th 2019|Resilient Cities and Climate, Sustainable Infrastructure|

A large share of the world's population lives in urban areas, making cities a major cause of climate change. Food is especially relevant in this regard, calling for strategies that make food systems contribute to urban resilience. How this may look like can be seen when looking at the City Regions Food System presented by Michela Carucci, Roman Malec, and Guido Santini.

Does Cultural Heritage Make More Resilient Cities?

By |2024-01-04T08:43:28+01:00October 10th 2019|Good Governance, Resilient Cities and Climate|

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.

Smart Cities and Slum Resilience

By |2024-01-04T08:43:56+01:00October 8th 2019|Gender and Inequalities, Resilient Cities and Climate|

The concept of smart cities brings with it both risks and opportunities for informal settlements. Through technical innovation, they do have the potential of making slums more resilient, argues Laurinda Godjo – if they are not only smart cities but also inclusive cities.

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