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Displaying 135 of about 257 resultsUNECE has launched this policy brief to emphasize the role of sustainable urban and peri-urban forestry as an integrative and strategic nature-based solution that can help develop healthier, more sustainable and climate resilient cities. Recognizing the collective experience of city dwellers throughout the pandemic, the brief highlights the urgent…
Public spaces are city dwellers’ open-air living rooms and define cities’ cultural, social, economic and political functions. They are of three types: streets and pedestrian access; open and green spaces, such as parks, plazas, water bodies and waterfronts; and public facilities, such as libraries, community centres and markets. With a growing urban pop…
Weather extremes, such as heatwaves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change.In late September of this year, flash flooding surged down neighborhood streets and subway stairways in New York City, as a historic rainfall led to canceled flights and closed roads, and city officials…
As the planet gets hotter, the need for cool living environments is becoming more urgent. But air conditioning is a major contributor to global warming since units use potent greenhouse gases and lots of energy.Now, researchers from McGill University, UCLA and Princeton have found in a new study an inexpensive, sustainable alternative to mechanical cool…
Key insightsDespite the multiple climate vulnerabilities and risks in African cities, there remains a unique window of opportunity to get things right.Since 1990, the total number of African cities has doubled, and their cumulative population has increased by 500 million. Between now and 2050, African cities will house an additional 900 million resident…
[...]“Extreme heat is a silent killer,” says Krista Milne, one of two “chief heat officers” recently appointed by the City of Melbourne. “That’s not really understood by the community because of the lack of visual cues.”[...]In Greater Geelong, the local council has backed a pilot project to create “climate safe rooms” inside the homes of low-income hou…
This article proposes a methodology of analysis of the institutional capabilities that are employed to cope with climate change at the municipal and metropolitan levels. The methodology was applied to the São Paulo Metropolitan Region using Environmental and Disaster Risk Management data, collected by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics…
This brief presents key insights about ways to integrate climate information into climate change-related adaptation planning used in urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa. The authors of this brief highlight 10 lessons learned from their work to promote and support long-term resilience to the impacts of climate change in growing cities in sub-Saharan Africa…
Throughout the PSF’s twinning programme, eight municipalities from Spain, Italy, Greece, France and Germany were paired together to offer opportunity to exchange on best practices, lessons learnt, and to evaluate what could be applied in their city.Communities across Europe, both large and small, are no stranger to the effects of climate change. Yet it…
Five Chinese cities – with a combined population of more than 25 million – have committed to prioritize efforts to reduce disaster risk. Chengdu, Guangyuan, Lishui, Shanghai Changning District, and Tianjin Eco-City have joined Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), providing a big boost to the global partnership, which is focused on scaling up amb…
Creating resilient urban economies and cities as drivers of growth and recovery is the focus of this year’s Urban October. With most of the world’s workers informally employed and with cities having to grapple with the impacts of the climate crisis, this theme highlights the need to embrace economic diversity, climate justice for these workers and…
[...]In Beverly Hills, crews felled more than 50 ficus trees, ranging from 60 to 100 years old, along Robertson Boulevard for a sidewalk restoration project. The city plans to replace them with alternating crape myrtles and Mexican fan palms. Similarly, a pavement restoration plan underway in Long Beach has involved chopping down about 150 lemon-scented…
[...]The intense rainfall marked the most rain in a single day at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, which saw nearly 8 inches of rain in one day, more "than any other since 1948," per The Washington Post. Brooklyn was hit with about a month's worth of rain in three hours "as it was socked by some of the storm’s most intense rainfall rate…
Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is expected to double in population by 2050. This rapid growth poses significant challenges for the city, particularly relating to flood risk, urban heat, land degradation and soil erosion.In response to this, Arup was selected to assess how urban greening could help to resolve these issues, while enabling the city to increase…
[...]Dallas is the seventh hottest city in the USA according to the Texas Tree Foundation - a non-profit organisation that aims to improve green spaces and plant trees in urban areas. The foundation is combatting extreme heat and heat inequality using existing data from their urban heat island management study. It has set a target to protect and increas…