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Cut methane emissions to avert global temperature rise, UN-backed study urges
The Global Methane Assessment outlines the benefits of mitigating methane, a key ingredient in smog, which include preventing some...


Collaborative Climate Action: A Pre-Requisite for More Ambitious Climate Policy
The GIZ publication “Collaborative Climate Action – A Pre-Requisite for more Ambitious Climate Policy” explains why fighting climate...


UTC - 2021 PLACE Initiative Climate Summit
Electric cars and solar panels won’t be enough. The effort to combat Climate Change hinges upon good urbanism – the key ingredient to...


Climate Action UTC in 2021
The World Urban Campaign (WUC) Steering Committee members approved the new eighteen applications to host Climate Action oriented Urban...


Grassroot Organizations Share Climate Knowledge Through Exchange Visits
Peer learning has helped organisations, such as in India and Kenya, learn about climate adaptation and land management By Zak Derler and...


Mobilising Intersectional Climate Action: Lessons from Barcelona
There is growing urgency for cities to take integrated climate action that can address inequalities more holistically. Barcelona is...


Responding to covid-19 and setting the scene for the future
Open Streets Cape Town’s (OSCT) initial strategy for 2020 focused on expanding the Open Streets programme in partnership with local...


India Covid crisis: Vulnerable frontline workers hit hard by virus
As India battles a devastating second wave of Covid-19, frontline workers including those working in overwhelmed mortuaries and burial...


Spatial Fragmentation in Nairobi City; the Elephant in the Room
Nairobi is recognised to be among the rapidly urbanising and growing economies in East and Central Africa. Eunice Jimmy reviews the...


Crazy for Organic!
Sylvia Kuria is an organic farmer in Kenya who founded Sylvia’s Basket, a farm based in Limuru, committed to providing fresh organic...


UTC on Beirut Post-Blast Reconstruction Discusses Heritage Planning
More than six months after the devastating Beirut Port explosion, an Urban Thinkers Campus was held on 17 March 2021 on the theme:...


Tracking Home-Based Workers in Ethiopia and Kenya
Local textile and garment industries in various African countries are poised for export-oriented growth and home-based workers are likely...


22 April: International Mother Earth Day
"We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption". UN...


Our Call and Commitments to Climate Action and Solutions
OUR CURRENT CLIMATE CONTEXT Climate Change is one of the planet’s greatest challenges. As greenhouse gas levels continue to climb,...


On 15 April 2021, WUC Partners Launch Call to Climate Action
Nairobi, 15 April 2021 – Recognizing that Climate Change is one of the planet’s greatest challenges, the World Urban campaign is calling...


Huairou Commission: Grassroot Leaders Driving Climate Action from the Ground-Up
Climate emergencies, amidst an already ongoing Covid-19 pandemic have paved the way to achieving a more ambitious climate agenda than...


ActionAid Zambia: Mining Companies must not be Allowed to Pollute with Impunity
Konkola Copper Mines – a subsidiary of the UK-based mining giant Vedanta – has been polluting the main water source of surrounding...


URBANET: What We Build Today Will Form the Africa and Africans of Tomorrow
Green buildings are a crucial part of fighting climate change. Elizabeth Wangeci Chege from the Kenya Green Building Society explores...
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