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By Peter Yeung, Michael Schaper, head of Hamburg’s storm surge security team, gestures to a road that passes over a nearby bridge and across the harbourside HafenCity district. “Do you see how it gradually rises?” he says. “The fact that the street level is just a few meters higher over there means it will be flood-protected for the next century.”
In his message for World Cities Day on Sunday, the UN chief called for renewed resolve to confront urban challenges, mitigate risks and forge lasting solutions. The theme this year focuses on ‘Adapting Cities for Climate Resilience’.
Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has asked Malawians to consider walking and cycling to work. The Veep made the remarks yesterday during the 2021
Although sea level rise could put more than 800 million people in coastal cities at direct risk by 2050, less than 10 per cent of climate finance for
Leonardia: World Cities Day celebration centers on climate resilience