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First book focusing on adaptation to climate change in cities

Submitted by Mike on Wed, 10/06/2009 - 13:32

Adapting Cities to Climate Change contains contributions by 37 specialists from a variety of disciplines, several of whom served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A team from IIED has edited the first book to address in detail the ways in which cities can adapt to climate change

Cities produce surprisingly low carbon emissions per capita

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 23/03/2009 - 09:17

Greenhouse gas emissions of city dwellers are often far smaller than the national averages, says a study in the April issue of Environment and Urbanization.

Hope and high water

Dharavi is a place where worlds collide. One of Asia’s biggest slums, it is also an urban powerhouse of micro-entrepreneurism generating over half a billion dollars a year. As IIED director Camilla Toulmin walked its lanes, she found people facing an uncertain future with humour and hope intact.

City without limits: keeping pace with the urban poor

Celine D’Cruz, coordinator of Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI), talks about her work with IIED

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Submitted by Mike on Thu, 25/09/2008 - 23:12

Local organisations show how to bring water and sanitation to world's slums

Submitted by Mike on Tue, 19/08/2008 - 14:01

Slum dwellers in Africa, Asia and Latin America are gaining improved access to clean water and sanitation thanks to a variety of innovative approaches.

Adapting Cities to Climate Change

To date, discussions of how to address climate change have focused far more on mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions) than adaptation (coping with the storms, floods, sea-level rise and other impacts that climate change will bring). This page brings together material on adapting cities to climate change in low and middle-income nations.

SDI launches new website

Gates Foundation gives US$10 million to help urban poor improve living conditions

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 22/11/2007 - 16:11

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will provide US$10 million to the nongovernmental organisation Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) to support the urban poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America to take action to improve their housing, water and sanitation.

Adaptation to climate change faces major constraints in urban areas

Submitted by Mike on Tue, 13/11/2007 - 14:40

Research published by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) warns that it will be much harder to 'adapt' urban areas to protect them from new and increasing risks from climate change than is currently thought.

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