Climate Adaptation
Scaling Heat Action Plans for Climate Adaptation in Cities
Paris’s red-alert response shows how heat warnings can activate citywide outreach, cooling access, and practical support for children.
Solution area
Climate Adaptation
Practical pathways to prepare communities for change.
Climate Adaptation in practice.
Practical pathways to prepare communities for change. This section brings together GCS reporting and analysis across the places, institutions and systems where action is taking shape.
24 published insights in this solution area.
Climate Adaptation
Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Risk and Climate Resilience
Heavy rainfall can overwhelm landscapes when water moves rapidly through catchments, increasing flood risk and damaging habitats.
Climate Adaptation
Climate Adaptation Infrastructure for Urban Flood Resilience
Urban flooding threatens infrastructure, homes, transport networks, and essential services as severe storms interact with constrained waterways and sewer systems.
Climate Adaptation
How SA Water’s Recycled Water Networks Strengthen Climate Resilience and Water Security
Discover how SA Water’s recycled water networks improve water security, support climate resilience, and reduce freshwater demand through sustainable reuse.
Climate Adaptation
Tokyo’s Underground Flood Diversion Systems and Urban Climate Resilience
🌆 Urban flooding is becoming one of the defining infrastructure challenges of climate change.
Climate Adaptation
Blue Bonds and Ocean Finance: How Marine Investment Supports Climate Resilience
Blue bonds channel capital into marine conservation, coastal resilience, sustainable infrastructure, and ocean economies through targeted climate-smart finance.
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Integrated Urban Water Management
Connecting Services, Catchments, Governance, and Resilience
Cities cannot secure reliable water services by improving individual projects alone. Decisions about supply, drainage, land use, finance, and public accountability must work together over time.
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