This tool provides local policy-makers and major stakeholders with a methodology to plan for climate change. These plans must address both mitigation (e.g., reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) and adaptation (respon...

Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significan...

In this issue:

• Pilot initiatives in Sorsogon City address climate change;
• One year after conference, Green Building Movement struggles to take root in Africa
• UN-Habitat and UNEP join forces on Ecosystem-based adaptati...

In this issue:

• Youth in Kampala, Uganda Look at Climate Change Through a Gender ‘Lens;
• Permaculture Demonstration Spaces in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Other Issues:

• Cities and Climate Change Initiative Newslett...

This publication is a call to action for cities to address Climate Change. It presents information and practical case studies of what cities can do to respond to one of today's leading challenges in 12 key messages. This publication takes the vi...

In this issue:

• Innovative School Designs Increase Climate Resilience in Mozambique
• Mapping the Risks to a Batik Industry City in Indonesia
• First Sub-Regional Workshop of CCCI Held in Fiji

Other Issues:

Cities consume the majority of world’s energy and are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the major proportion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollution. At the same time, it is cities, and in particular the urban poor, in the dev...

In this issue:

• UN-Habitat Supports Two Municipalities in Mexico in Adapting to Climate Change in the Water Sector
• The UN-Habitat-ARCADIS Partnership Supports the Cities and Climate Change Initiative in Asia
• Preventing fl...