Cities
Cities need to handle climate-displaced people with dignity
Cities, no doubt, are aspirational and most people want to move into them for upgrading their stands of living. However, a lot of these […]
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Cities
We must recognise cities as waterscapes
and Ajaya Dixit Recurring floods in major cities point to need for moving away from land-centric urbanism Chennai is flooded. The north-east monsoon that […]
Cities
Cities need net-zero commitments as climate induced internally displaced people keeps increasing
Women and girls make up over half of the world’s IDPs, 5 million IDPs are living with disabilities, an estimated 2.6 million are elderly, […]
Biodiversity
How to meet climate and SDG goals together for cities
Each city should have two plans ready within a year. One, a SDG plan and two, a climate action plan Cities are growing by leaps […]
Cities
Cities need to plan for accommodating people displaced by climate change
In the next three decades, it is expected, humanity would have turned an exclusively urban species. By then almost 80 to 90 percent of […]
Cities
Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?
Ambika Chawla Multi-stakeholder partnerships that include displaced people in the process show promise for helping overwhelmed communities deal with an influx of climate migrants […]
Aid
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development failing in its gender framework commitments
Fidanka Bacheva-McGrath Evidence of meaningful implementation of the Gender Action Plan for EBRD and GCF’s Green Cities Framework – not found Knowledge is power. […]
Cities
Another Indian city, Bhubaneswar, inching closer to a groundwater crisis
Pragati Prava The capital city of Odisha is inching towards becoming a semi-critical zone so far as the groundwater scenario is concerned. With groundwater […]
Cities
A slum after the storm!
How prepared are urban poor to face climate change induced disasters? On the 10th of November, the morning after cyclone Bulbul passed through Odisha […]
Cities
Delhi air pollution: Environmental crisis must be seen in conjunction with politics for effective solutions
If things continue in the present manner, India will have all the top 10 slots for the most polluted cities in the world; Delhi, […]
Cities
A Cape Town lesson for Chennai and other Indian cities facing Day Zero
Day Zero is not necessarily the day when water availability will be zero. In reality, the kind of water crisis our cities are already […]
Cities
VERTICAL FARMING – PROVIDING PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO URBAN CITY CHALLENGES
Ratan Deep Some estimates state that in 50 yrs 70% of the world population will be in “cities”, around 7 billion mouths to feed […]