This is a comprehensive analysis of actions underway in the world’s megacities to address climate change. It not only underscores what cities have done to date, but also what they can do now and in the future as local leaders, and as a collective, to have a significant global impact.

The guidelines provide the basic knowledge on how to initiate, plan, implement and maintain decentralized wastewater management for sustainable infrastructure development in small urban areas. Special emphasis is given to the improvement of urban water courses; most of them are currently terribly polluted.

This practical guide on responding to the challenges of climate change adaptation in cities offers examples of good practices and successful experiences, and describes other available resource materials and tools.

This report presents a strategy for scaling adaptation to climate change impacts within urban areas. It approaches the adaptation challenge within the overall context of other pressing risks and development challenges confronting the world’s urban regions. The

This summary provides an overview of the report on Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World.  This report examines the interlinkages between climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor, underscoring four key messages: The urban poor are on the front line; City governments are the drivers for addressing risks through ensuring b

The Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) was founded in 2000 to challenge, through research, the apparent omission of almost a billion people from the 2015 poverty target of the Millennium Development Goals. The first decade of the 21st century has illustrated the power of economic growth and human development to bring large numbers out of poverty.