In this issue:

• Environmental Management Information Systems in CCCI cities
• CCCI pilots Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in three cities
• CCCI starts to implement evaluation recommendations
• ARCADIS co...

This report represents the Mid-Term Evaluation  of UN‑Habitat’s Cities and Climate Change Initiative. The Initiative was launched in 2008 and to date has been implemented in three phases: August 2008 to July 2010 (Phase I), August 2010 – Dec...

       In this issue:

• Youth Caravan to COP17 in Durban, South Africa: UN-Habitat CCCI Youth Participate in Historic Event
• Thirteen Urban Districts in Rwanda Sign Up for Making Cities Resilient Campaign
• Climate Change ...

In this issue:

• Partners launch Global Protocol for Community-scale GHG Emissions
• UN-Habitat Applies for Accreditation as Agencies of the Global Environment Facility and Adaptation Fund
• Sihanoukville officials in city-...

In this issue:

• Primary school supports innovative approach to flood risk management in Kampala
• Responding to an ever increasing demand, the Cities and Climate Change Initiative takes action in Asia and the Pacific
• Upc...

This tool provides local policy-makers and major stakeholders with a methodology to plan for climate change. These plans must address both mitigation (e.g., reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere) and adaptation (respondi...

Cities and Climate Change reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways. It illustrates the significan...

In this issue:

• Pilot initiatives in Sorsogon City address climate change;
• One year after conference, Green Building Movement struggles to take root in Africa
• UN-Habitat and UNEP join forces on Ecosystem-based adapta...

In this issue:

• Youth in Kampala, Uganda Look at Climate Change Through a Gender ‘Lens;
• Permaculture Demonstration Spaces in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

This publication is a call to action for cities to address Climate Change. It presents information and practical case studies of what cities can do to respond to one of today's leading challenges in 12 key messages. This publication takes the view...

The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) developed this guide for city planners and other allied professionals to better understand, assess, and take action on climate change at the local level. While climate change is a global ...

In this issue:

• Innovative School Designs Increase Climate Resilience in Mozambique
• Mapping the Risks to a Batik Industry City in Indonesia
• First Sub-Regional Workshop of CCCI Held in Fiji

Cities consume the majority of world’s energy and are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the major proportion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other pollution. At the same time, it is cities, and in particular the urban poor, in the dev...

In this issue:

• UN-Habitat Supports Two Municipalities in Mexico in Adapting to Climate Change in the Water Sector
• The UN-Habitat-ARCADIS Partnership Supports the Cities and Climate Change Initiative in Asia
• Preventing fl...

This edition covers the following topics:

• Buildings, Climate Change and Cities;
  
• Ecuador: Eco-Materials for Low Cost and Sustainable building;
  
• World Green Building Council;
  
• Builders Kick-Start...

Sorsogon City lies at the southernmost tip of Luzon, the largest of the 7,100 islands of the Philippine archipelago and is nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. Of its 64 barangays (lowest level of government) covering 31,292 ...