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Climate adaptation, disaster resilience, drought, flooding, extreme heat, coastal pressures, and the mechanisms used to strengthen resilience.
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England has moved national drought coordination to a weekly cycle while dry soils, depleted reservoirs, restrictions, ecological incidents, and flash-flood risk coexist. The escalation shows why weather recovery and water-system recovery are not the same thing.
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A $27.1 million CDB/GCF programme will strengthen early-warning systems in Belize and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Hamburg’s Green Roof Strategy combines planning requirements, financial support, technical funding and rainwater-charge incentives to expand roof greening while improving stormwater retention, building cooling, roof durability and urban habitat.
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Extreme heat is already reducing labor capacity in South Asia and could impose much larger economic losses.
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Between now and 2050, Melbourne’s population will reach 8 million. Read how City West Water and other utilities are ensuring a water-efficient future.
Read analysisHafenCity is Hamburg’s urban solution to climate adaptation and mitigation that will become a resilient European city on the waterfront.
Read analysisCreating a water-secure, climate-resilient world.
Read analysisToronto’s TransformTO initiative aims to lower the city’s emissions using available technology, transforming Toronto’s future into a low-carbon one.
Read analysisMany governments have implemented green technology challenges. Ontario’s 2030 Solutions Challenge is building a low-carbon future for the province.
Read analysisCities are both major contributors to climate change and at the same time highly vulnerable to climatic risks. As such, cities need to become climate-ready.
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