Resilient Delta Cities – Adaptation Analysis, Planning, and Implementation
The Resilient Delta Cities webinar shares cases of good adaptation practices in urban deltaic regions.
Quito, Ecuador: pioneering food as part of urban resilience
Quito is one of the very few cities to have institutionalised food within its urban resilience strategy. With a long history of urban agriculture and food system assessments, Quito has developed resilience capacities
to address multiple shocks and stresses.
Nakuru's urban crop cultivators
Knowledge exchange on urban resilience
On February 13, 2023 at 15:00-17:00 CET an interactive global knowledge exchange on urban climate risk assessment will was hosted for city officials and risk assessment practitioners to discuss and exchange knowledge on assessing and addressing informal settlements, and exchange knowledge of successes and challenges with implementation, after risk assessments.
Complexities of eco-restoration involve multiple authorities
In this second roundtable, GCA brought together officials from Beijing and international experts to discuss the main objective of IWRM, communication across sectors and methods of coordination, the responsibilty of the government for climate adaptation and disaster resilience through information and experience sharing between cities.
Working with Beijing on its water eco-restoration plan
In this first roundtable of the knowledge exchange, GCA brought together officials from Beijing and international experts to discuss how environmental pressures in Beijing could be mitigated through a water restoration strategy that covered the three principles of water-sensitive or sponge cities.
Dodoma, Tanzania - Rapid Climate Risk Assessment
The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Dodoma, Tanzania. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city, including floods, coastal erosion, and water scarcity.
Conakry, Guinea: City Scoping and Rapid Climate Risk Assessment
The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Conakry, Guinea. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city, including floods, coastal erosion, and water scarcity.
Libreville, Gabon: Rapid climate risk assessment
The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Libreville, Gabon. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city as exclusion of vulnerable people, heat island effects, decrease of air quality and decrease of quality of citizens’ health.
Antananarivo - Rapid Climate Risk Assessment
The Global Center on Adaptation has completed the city scoping and rapid climate risk assessment for Antananarivo, Madagascar. The study identifies different climate-related hazards for the city, including climate migration, informal settlements, social inequality and the socio-economic impacts of climate change.
