cities

Urban action was one of three themes framing the 19th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA19). Urban communities brought critical insights on how to make climate adaptation both just and equitable. These insights must be integrated into global climate decision making at COP30 later this year.

Discover stories of resilience, based on the sessions of the 2022 Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation, and explore the difference between local action and locally led action, as well as effective ways of supporting local leadership in this report.

Find out about recent research on how climate information is brought to bear on decision-making in southern African cities. Development of sustainable cities needs to be based on robust climate information while also involving local communities.

African cities face unique challenges and climate change threats. This paper analyzes how resiliency can be made applicable to urban African contexts.