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Climate-Conscious Cities: The Critical Decade to 2030
Climate change, to which no one is immune, is the global challenge that casts the most dramatic shadow on cities. The figures speak for themselves and tell inconvenient truths. Greenhouse gas concentrations, already at their highest levels in three million years, have continued to rise, reaching new record highs in 2021. The IPCC 2021 sixth assessment report urges action, as humanity is at the doorstep of the 1.5 °C increase, significantly changing the nature and the balance of Earth’s ecosystems. Cities constitute the largest emitters but potentially most-efficient energy users, and also the highest concentrated human resolve to mitigate emissions and adapt. The third chapter reviews outstanding mitigation and adaptation strategies by climate-conscious cities. Intelligent and efficient urban actions and social innovations have to be urgently scaled up to protect the future of the planet. Greenhouse emissions had fallen by 17% during the 2020 lockdown, but this reduction should be brought by design and not as the short-term result of a temporarily suspended socio-economic life.
The Glasgow COP26COP26 (Climate, Glasgow 2021) is a milestone for regaining the momentum of climate ambition lost due to the pandemic. Cities can lead climate action not only because of their sheer size, but also because of their democratic traditions, trade flows and global networks, which can play a great role for climate justice, and their power to disseminate influential patterns and models to the world. This chapter also sheds light on riverside, coastal and deltaic cities, which will have to reinforce resilience against the worst effects of climate change. Low-laying megacities in low and medium-income countries are extremely vulnerable, but developed cities and assets are also at risk, and all have to share knowledge and technology and scale-up the best models and approaches to accelerate climate action.
Climate-Conscious Cities: The Critical Decade to 2030
Climate change, to which no one is immune, is the global challenge that casts the most dramatic shadow on cities. The figures speak for themselves and tell inconvenient truths. Greenhouse gas concentrations, already at their highest levels in three million years, have continued to rise, reaching new record highs in 2021. The IPCC 2021 sixth assessment report urges action, as humanity is at the doorstep of the 1.5 °C increase, significantly changing the nature and the balance of Earth’s ecosystems. Cities constitute the largest emitters but potentially most-efficient energy users, and also the highest concentrated human resolve to mitigate emissions and adapt. The third chapter reviews outstanding mitigation and adaptation strategies by climate-conscious cities. Intelligent and efficient urban actions and social innovations have to be urgently scaled up to protect the future of the planet. Greenhouse emissions had fallen by 17% during the 2020 lockdown, but this reduction should be brought by design and not as the short-term result of a temporarily suspended socio-economic life.
The Glasgow COP26COP26 (Climate, Glasgow 2021) is a milestone for regaining the momentum of climate ambition lost due to the pandemic. Cities can lead climate action not only because of their sheer size, but also because of their democratic traditions, trade flows and global networks, which can play a great role for climate justice, and their power to disseminate influential patterns and models to the world. This chapter also sheds light on riverside, coastal and deltaic cities, which will have to reinforce resilience against the worst effects of climate change. Low-laying megacities in low and medium-income countries are extremely vulnerable, but developed cities and assets are also at risk, and all have to share knowledge and technology and scale-up the best models and approaches to accelerate climate action.
Climate-Conscious Cities: The Critical Decade to 2030
Mega, Voula (author)
Human Sustainable Cities ; Chapter: 3 ; 73-103
2022-08-27
31 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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