https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-02409-z
Six research priorities for cities and climate change
Xuemei Bai, Richard J. Dawson, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Gian C. Delgado, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Shobhakar Dhakal, David Dodman, Lykke Leonardsen, Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Debra C. Roberts & Seth Schultz
We call for long-term, cross-disciplinary studies to reduce carbon emissions and urban risks from global warming
City transformations in a 1.5 °C warmer world
William Solecki,Cynthia Rosenzweig,Shobhakar Dhakal, Debra Roberts, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Seth Schultz & Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Meeting the ambitions of the Paris Agreement will require rapid and massive decarbonization of cities, as well as adaptation. Capacity and requirement differs across cities, with challenges and opportunities for transformational action in both the Global North and South.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0100-6
Locking in positive climate responses in cities
Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Richard J. Dawson, Roberto Sanchez Rodriguez, Xuemei Bai, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Karen C. Seto & Shobhakar Dhakal
Well-intended climate actions are confounding each other. Cities must take a strategic and integrated approach to lock into a climate-resilient and low-emission future