Australia ratified the Paris Climate Agreement on Thursday. It is the 140th country to ratify the accord. Australia is on track to meet its climate goals ...
Twinning cities for better resilience
Mayors Adapt is the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative on urban adaption to climate change. Now eleven cities from seven EU countries ...
New emergency and crisis management tools to come
Yesterday 100 Resilient Cities announced a partnership with Janellis, an Australian consulting company, which will offer an emergency management support to ...
How can a city like Vancouver prepare for flood resilience?
The city of Vancouver has laid out several options to encounter the risk of flooding. As the sea level is expected to rise, there are several options of ...
UN climate conference (COP22) starts in Marokko today
The Paris Climate Agreement contains the overaching framework to tackle climate change. In Marrakesh the negotiations are about specific details of the ...
More resilience for the Mekong delta
South-East Asia has been severely hit by El Niño in September this year. Especially the Mekong river along which much of the region’s economic ...
Landscape planning and design for urban resilience
A new online guide for urban landscape planning was published by the American Society of Landscape Architects. It shows with examples how the risk natural ...
Why infrastructure needs to become resilient
In the United States there is a consensus in both parties that the infrastructure of cities needs to be improved. A comprehensive approach is still missing ...
The resilience of the built environment
How old and abandoned buildings can be revitalized, is exemplified with these eight projects. The designers and architects found unique ways to introduce ...
Resilience lessons from hurricane Matthew
While the whole devastating impact of hurricane Matthew on farmers’ livelihoods, the environment and public health is not entirely clear yet, it can be ...
