WORLD CITIES REPORT 2024

In the Caribbean, where the bulk of housing, industry and urban infrastructure are concentrated 4.2 Existing Patterns of Urbanization and in Low Elevation Coastal Zones (LECZs), it is projected that almost all Differential Vulnerability to Climate Change port and harbour facilities in the region will suffer inundation in the future.9 Among the capital cities, Nassau in the Bahamas is the most Urba. [...] Furthermore, close to 80 per cent of the the absence of adequately functioning drainage and the steady depletion people living in the flood-affected part of the city were members of of open spaces that previously would have absorbed some of the water ethnic minorities.25 This illustrates how individuals can have different all contributed to the severity of the situation.23 degrees of sensitivity,. [...] Therefore, cities and subnational governments Indeed, Chapter 1 shows that countries with a higher share of informal need to implement processes and mechanisms to understand and employment and informal settlements are more likely to be vulnerable address the needs of people with disabilities as part of their response to the extreme weather events and shocks associated with climate to the climate c. [...] The combined effects of climate change and the continued expansion of urban areas will amplify the phenomenon of urban Notably, these neighbourhoods—which have a history of heat islands (UHIs), resulting in increasing heat-related illness and marginalization and are predominantly inhabited by non-white mortality that will affect the most vulnerable first and foremost and low-income communities—exh. [...] To return again country contexts alike.64 In these and other cities, urban climate to the case of New Orleans (US) in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the adaptation projects hold the potential to inadvertently intensify existing continued gentrification of relatively flood-safe areas and the failure of inequalities.