We need to redesign cities to tackle climate change, IPCC says
Municipal leaders need to quickly enact a whole scale of changes, from retrofitting buildings to handling urban waste differently.
As much as 72% of the world’s emissions in 2020 came from cities—and by the middle of the century, urban areas could triple in size. That’s why the latest climate report from the IPCC, the UN’s climate body, makes it clear that we need to build cities differently, as part of a long list of solutions that the world needs to quickly deploy to have a chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.