Climate Resilient and Sustainable Urban Development

Cities can be viewed as hubs of intensive resource
demand, environmental degradation and greenhouse
gas emissions. Cities form a major part of the solution
in promoting low carbon development, through use of
renewable energy, energy efficiency, green buildings
and mitigating emissions from urban transport. Cities
are also going to be the loci of increasing losses due to
the impacts of climate change because of concentrated
populations and large-scale economic investments.
The objective of this publication is to highlight the
global and regional trends in urban development,
identify key issues, projected risks, impacts and
opportunities in the light of climate change through
case study examples from cities in India and the
world. Key messages emanating from the six chapters
have been summarized below: