urban adaptation
Resilient cities, resilient futures: taking urban lessons from CBA19 to COP30
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.
Community Commons as Socially Just and Adaptive Spaces
Understand how 'community commons' can be potential adaptive spaces in urban poor settlements of the Global South through this ArcGIS StoryMap.
FRACTAL Podcast Series – Exploring transdisciplinary approaches to support resilience and adaptation decision making
The STARTcast is a podcast created by START for early- and mid-career scientists. Listen to Season 2 on co-creating climate information with decision-makers for climate-resilient cities in southern Africa as part of the Future Resilience for African Cities and Lands (FRACTAL) project.
Climate justice for people and nature through urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA): a focus on the Global South
Examples of urban EbA interventions, predominantly in the Global South, are explored in this paper and linked with seven proposed EbA social principles related to climate justice.