Climate compatible development starts with finding the right partners
Alice Reil of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability rounds up lively discussions about ‘how to make climate compatible development happen’ at local and…
When city met finance: how to fund and build resilient infrastructure in emerging economies
Seventy-five percent of the infrastructure that will exist in 2050 has not been built yet, according to Global Infrastructure Basel….
How to build resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
by David Lammers, MSc Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies, Lund University While the challenges of increasing urbanization are often most prominently…
Is communication the greatest barrier to unlocking climate finance?
Financing resilient urban development is an essential tool in achieving global sustainability targets. Yet there is a lack of communication…
“Transformative optimism” towards a resilient world
“Transformative optimism” underlies the actions that local and subnational governments are taking to build a low-carbon and resilient world. It also…
A3: Resilient Investment – Targeting is Good, Embedding is Better
As a city, if you want to address resilience, where do you start? At the Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific A3 panel…
TAPplications: Reykjavík’s “Meanwhile Projects”
This blog series presents some of the applications to the Transformative Actions Program, to show you how cities are “tapping”…
TAPplications: the 100,000 Houses Plan in Nord-Pas de Calais
This blog series presents some of the applications to the Transformative Actions Program, to show you how cities are “tapping”…
Plenary: Financing Urban Sustainability
After three days of discussions and workshops on sustainable urban solutions, delegates turned to the issue of financing urban sustainability…