Cities can be viewed as hubs of intensive resource demand, environmental degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. Cities form a major part of the solution in promoting low carbon development, through use of renewable energy, energy efficiency, green buildings and mitigating emissions from urban transport. Cities are also going to be the loci of increasing losses due to the impacts of climate change because of concentrated populations and large-scale economic investments. The objective of this publication is to highlight the global and regional trends in urban development, identify key issues, projected risks, impacts and opportunities in the light of climate change through case study examples from cities in India and the world. Key messages emanating from the six chapters have been summarized below:
Resource collections
- Climate emergency
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience