WORLD CITIES REPORT 2024

together with the World Bank, funded the Mozambique Cities and Climate Project: among the areas targeted was the coastal city of Beira, 276 WORLD CITIES REPORT 2024 Box 10.1: The challenge of shock-proofing urban transport in Pune, India The Pune agglomeration, comprising the cities of Pune, Pimpri and Chinchwad, is a large and expanding metropolitan area with a population of more than 7 million p. [...] For example, built-up area maps (which integrate a those risks in the form of the Global Human Settlement Layer produced map of the building’s footprint and estimated height) define built by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the environment typologies and inform loss scenarios. [...] Tackling the drivers of differential vulnerabilities often the protracted and contested process of tackling the historical, Focusing on vulnerability, or susceptibility to harm, enables the social cultural and political drivers of vulnerability in this way is beyond the components of urban resilience to be articulated.46 The objective scope of urban managers and other resilience-building agents. [...] National governments and international on the integration of urban concerns into Multilateral financing organizations play a key role in facilitating intergovernmental Environmental Agreements to recognize the growing transfers and the development of financial mechanisms to facilitate importance of subnational forms of governance in the action at the local level. [...] Leveraging the resources and capacities with a broader concern for the well-being of people and the health of within the city, including those of the most disadvantaged actors, is ecosystems elsewhere.