Cities and Climate Action - Cities and Climate Action - World Cities Report 2024

As the impacts of climate groups are more likely to result in inclusive, effective change intensify, vulnerable and underserved neighbourhoods solutions that build the resilience of the most vulnerable often bear the brunt of environmental disasters and infrastructure to climate shocks. [...] By directing resources towards the development of resilient climate action depends on the ability of governments and other infrastructure in these areas, cities will not only enhance the well- stakeholders to create opportunities and platforms for diverse being of their residents but fortify their long-term ability to withstand voices, especially those at the frontline of the climate crisis. [...] Infrastructure should be designed not only to be resistant Improving and leveraging the network of nature-based to the effects of climate change, but also address the infrastructure in cities can serve as a transformative underlying social and environmental factors that contribute to accelerator of climate action. [...] Ensuring that urban dwellers have access addressing the drivers of both climate change and vulnerability, to these facilities and the services they offer—for example, by thereby contributing to broader and positive societal change in the involving local communities in the planning and delivery of nature- longterm. [...] The final chapter looks forward to envision how cities can achieve Most of the solutions cities need to respond decisively to climate the transformative change needed to thrive in the face of the climate change are already available.