Why all cities need to adapt to climate change

This article highlights the urgent need for cities around the world to adapt to the growing impacts of climate change, which include more frequent and severe heatwaves, floods, droughts, storms, and related challenges like food insecurity, increased migration, and the spread of diseases. It emphasises that these risks will worsen in the coming decades and that delaying adaptation will be far more costly in terms of lives, economic damage, and social disruption. The article also explains that investing in adaptation now not only reduces disaster risks but also provides multiple immediate benefits such as improved public health, cleaner air, enhanced urban green spaces, and stronger infrastructure. It calls for comprehensive, city-wide, multi-hazard adaptation strategies integrated into broader urban planning, prioritising low-cost, multi-benefit solutions to build resilience, especially in vulnerable communities.

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