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Climate change and cities
 
The impact of climate change takes place in cities, towns and villages. They in turn have the greatest impact on climate change. As our climate changes things are getting worse, threatening more extreme weather. If sea levels rise by just one metre, many major coastal cities will be under threat: Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, New York, Lagos, and Cairo Karachi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Dhaka, Shanghai, Osaka-Kobe, and Tokyo.
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Climate change and cities NEWS

UN-HABITAT chief executive delivers 55th Annual Beatty memorial lecture
Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 29/10/2007

Although climate change has cast a dark shadow on Western countries, it has hit the world’s poor hardest,

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EVENTS
Cities and Climate Change Meeting
22 November 2007 - 23 November 2007
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View Details Habitat Debate Vol. 12, No. 4, A new start:The paradox of crisis
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