Cities, Climate Change, and The Big Opportunity: How Empowering the Urban Poor Can Improve Our Global Future

For centuries, cities have proven themselves to be engines of economic growth, sources of
innovation and places of job creation. As cities invest in their adaptation and resilience to climate change,
this is also a window of opportunity to invest in new pathways to economic prosperity and progress for their
most vulnerable citizens. But to truly solve the vulnerability of the poor, cities must address the structural
inequalities that have constrained their access to resources and created and sustained poverty.