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Climate Alpha is a new platform that uses algorithms to determine how cities will transform in the face of climate change.
Affordable housing is at risk, and policymakers need to act now to protect it.
236,000-square-foot rooftop farm in Bangkok can store as much as 3 million gallons of water, reducing flooding and forming the largest rooftop farm in Asia.
Home to “New York City’s newest island,” Hunter’s Point South is a city-funded park that offers lessons for cities struggling with rising tides.
Various new board games designed by Janette Kim, who leads the Urban Works Agency at the California College of the Arts, aim at helping people think differently about the complexity of climate action. Learning how different stakeholders will respond when sea levels rise can help us better understand what will happen as the climate changes.
The new RAPID Facility, a partnership between four American universities, acts as a first-of-its-kind disaster research hub. Entities across the world reach out when hazards strike and the facility ships them equipment to use temporarily, travels out to the site to operate the tools themselves, or collects and processes the data. All data is made available online.
In South Carolina, researchers who are testing fire risk drivers have discovered that small details in a home’s design contribute significantly to fire susceptibility. Other variables, such as the land area surrounding a house, neighbourhood design, and location are also risk drivers.
American emergency planners have few technological resources to understand what is happening during a disaster and must rely on outdated methods. One Concern, a new start-up, and other companies are using AI to help map which areas need most help during catastrophes and which long-term disaster management plans would be most effective.
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.