Climate Smart Cities
In the past | Urban Climate Change
Date: 14th May, 2020
Location: Online
Climate change and its likely impacts present serious challenges to an aspirational and rapidly urbanising India. Erratic rains, flooding, heat waves, air pollution, water shortages and now the pandemic have brought sharply into focus how unprepared indian cities are for any crisis. With every crisis, it seems that it doesn’t take much before our cities crumble into chaos.
A large percentage of urban residents are poor who live in less than acceptable conditions with no security of tenure and work in the unorganised sector. Despite the many complications and challenges, India should find ways of productively engaging with the problems of urbanization in the time of climate change, because it’s impacts will increasingly threaten development outcomes.
Join our expert panel as they discuss how climate change will impact urban India, what can be done to build inherent resilience for safe, liveable, healthy cities and how we can get there.
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speakers
Anu Jogesh
Climate Change policy and governance
Ankit Bhardwaj
Energy and Climate Change in Cities
Prem Chandavarkar
Architecture and Urban Planning
Ashwin Mahesh
Climate Science and Urbanism
Rajeev Gowda
Public Policy and Politics
Ravichandar
Moderator
programme output
Watch the panel discussion.
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