“For the urban poor, nothing trumps location”
More than 200 million people in Africa live in slums, making it a major issue for cities growing at a rapid…
Green and blue infrastructure: a solution with multiple benefits
by David Lammers, MSc Environmental Studies and Sustainability Studies, Lund University Water systems have a crucial function in many cities. Rivers…
Trees make cities cooler
From Chicago to Paris, Ottawa or Montreal, cities look for solutions to cope with hotter summers and climate change adverse…
Reality Check Workshops Preview: Resilience in Da Nang, Can Tho and Bangkok
Impacts from climate change are already being experienced worldwide and are only projected to continue: extreme weather events with higher…
The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy: The next frontier for cities and towns leading the way
By Mark Watts, Executive Director, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group & Gino Van Begin, Secretary General, ICLEI – Local Governments…
Smart CITIES 2.0 – Cities are reclaiming and grounding a hot debate
Smart Cities combine technological and non-technological solutions to overcome challenges and foster their sustainability. A range of examples of how…
Looking at the Whole: Approaching Resilience Planning Holistically
By Maddie Rehn, MJ Pickett and David Mitchell, students at Western State Colorado University, Sustainable and Resilient Communities MEM Program…
Making finance work for cities means making cities ready for finance
Over the next fifteen years, the global urban population is going to increase significantly, and the built environment required to…
Sino-German Urbanization Partnership strengthening around sustainable urban development
Under the umbrella of the Sino-German Urbanization Partnership, German and Chinese high-level representatives from the Ministries of Environment and local…
How these five global cities have improved their air quality
Air quality is a major issue in most large cities worldwide, but it also impacts on the surrounding rural and…
Facilitating climate solutions for local governments to raise ambition and accelerate action
Who should engage in raising ambition and accelerating climate action? Over the last two weeks, national and local representatives gathered…
From Agenda 21 to COP21: Addressing resilience in cities and informal settlements
By Omar Siddique, Senior Urban Specialist, Cities Alliance Chapter 7 on ‘human settlements’, which emerged from the first Rio Conference…