Weather events exacerbated by climate change will threaten many places in the coming years, and many of these locations are also projected to gain a lot of new inhabitants. In the world’s largest cities, governments will have to do more to protect the millions of people in danger from a hot planet.
Sources: Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative, UN-Habitat
Drought has edged Mexico City close to “Day Zero,” when it would run out of water.Phoenix has a director of heat response and mitigation whose department runs, among other things, a tree-planting program to provide shade.- Cairo’s $390 million Abu Rawash wastewater treatment plant is one ...