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Supporting climate-resilient urban planning: 10 lessons from cities in southern Africa
This brief presents key insights on integrating climate information into climate change-related adaptation planning in African cities.
Understanding and Supporting Climate-sensitive Decision Processes in Southern African Cities Review
Find out about recent research on how climate information is brought to bear on decision-making in southern African cities. Development of sustainable cities needs to be based on robust climate information while also involving local communities.
Climate resilient development pathways: applicability to navigating a just transition in South Africa
This article establishes the basis and sets the direction for future knowledge (co)production and planning work in relation to the adaptation and climate resilience aspects of navigating a ‘Just Transition’ in South Africa.
Everyday Stories of Climate Change – Educator Guide and Graphic Novel
Explore the Educator guide, which supports the Everyday Stories graphic novel for secondary school age children and includes examples from Bangladesh, South Africa, Bolivia, Puerto Rico, and Barbuda to discover how low-income families experience climate change, and their strategies to adapt and recover.
COPE Books for Children: Wildfires
Learn about disaster risk reduction and wildfires with this illustrated children's book from COPE. This time the COPE Squad travel to Pretoria, South Africa, to meet experts and learn all about wildfires. They put their training to good use when called to San Francisco to help with a real Wildfire.
Climate justice for people and nature through urban Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA): a focus on the Global South
Examples of urban EbA interventions, predominantly in the Global South, are explored in this paper and linked with seven proposed EbA social principles related to climate justice.
Step-by-step guide: Using climate information to support adaptation planning and policy-making
Guidance on how to quickly and easily access climate data for many locations across Africa, using an interactive map.
FRACTAL Learning – Adaptation Inspiration Cases in Africa Summary
This is a summary article signposting the FRACTAL Learning modules 1-6 on inspirational adaptation cases in Africa.
Transformative adaptation of rivers in an urban context: An ecological infrastructure and socio-ecological toolkit
Ecological infrastructure plays an important role in the overall health of rivers. This toolkit supports users to design, plan, implement and finance ecological infrastructure.
Climate Change Mitigation in Developing Countries
This MOOC course, developed by UCT, gives participants the opportunity and skills to consider how societies can be lifted out of poverty while also mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.