“While we know that cities are responsible for a large amount of greenhouse gas emissions, they are in parallel also affected by the impacts of climate change. Indeed, only recent events such as Hurricanes Harvey and Irma in the US or the monsoon flooding in South Asia have shown how vulnerable cities are with regard to the consequences of climate change,” Jürgen Kropp of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research explains. Today already 50 percent of the global population lives in cities. From infrastructure and transportation to city planning and governance, health, energy consumption and tourism - the conference will explore the latest advances in research and practice addressing climate change and their possible trade-offs and synergies with mitigation and sustainability objectives.
The Cities and Climate Conference 2017 concludes the European research project RAMSES, aimed at solving global urbanization challenges for cities in transition. RAMSES stands for Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for citiES. The project pools world leading institutions involved in climate change related city research and seeks to develop practical urban adaptation and mitigation measures for a sustainable future in cities.
Weblink to the Cities and Climate Conference 2017: http://ccc.ramses-cities.eu/
Weblink to a short video introducing the conference topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCG6WEX-aJk
Weblink to the online resource “On urban resilience” with short videos and additional: http://on-urban-resilience.eu/
