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Climate change will, in fact, leave cities little choice but to develop plans like the green network. Angelika Fritsch, a spokeswoman for the Hamburg's department of urban planning and the environment told The Guardian that thanks to its sea winds, the city is better positioned to combat warmer temperatures than, say, Berlin...
First, the private sector can apply the innovation that brought us the 'Internet of Everything' to upgrade early warning capabilities, writes Albert Cho, Xylem VP. Second, companies can help to "harden" infrastructure, improving the speed of recovery after disasters strike, he continues. Finally, businesses can also develop new financial models to help cities more efficiently manage risk...
'In Denmark, sustainable city planning is not a niche; it's just what we do. And you have to remember that sustainability is not just about the environment. It's also about creating local jobs,' said Brian Vad Mathiesen, an associate professor of development and planning at Aalborg University...
'Even if we could just stop global emissions tomorrow on a dime, Fort Lauderdale, Miami Gardens, Hoboken, New Jersey will be under sea level,' said Benjamin Strauss, a researcher at Climate Central, and author of the paper. Dramatic cuts in emissions – much greater than Barack Obama and other world leaders have so far agreed – could save nearly 1,000 of those towns, by averting the sea-level rise, the study found...
America's wildfire season has become two months longer than it used to be 40 years ago and burns up twice as much land as it used to due to the hotter, drier conditions induced by climate change, the country's forest service chief, Thomas Tidwell told Congress...
'Climate change must be integrated into the post-2015 agenda, as ignoring it may condemn many Africans to a life of poverty,' warns Dr Richard Munang of UNEP. Water shortage, climate change, sea level rise, flooding and food insecurity are some of the hazards affecting the continent...
Resilience is very much on the agenda of the international development scene, however, according to The Guardian, the terminology is not clearly defined, and is difficult to measure as an output. It is particularly difficult to measure in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation...
Philippines is having to adapt and adjust to rapidly deteriorating climatic trends at a great cost to its economy, reports the Guardian. Benito Ramos, the outgoing executive director of the NDRRMC asserts: 'We are mainstreaming climate change in all government departments and policies. If we don't adapt and adjust, we all agree we are heading for disaster.'...
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