Towards developing a common language for climate change in the City of Cape Town
This research aimed to better understand and circumvent language discrepancies at a city scale. It provides a toolkit to better understand and overcome terminology barriers.
City government-research partnerships
This briefing note provides reflections on city government-research partnerships, from Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Challenging predominant views with Theatre of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed is a powerful tool for challenging top-down approaches. This short film and article show how this approach can be used to build resilience.
Three ways for cities to adapt to climate change
Drawing on experiences in drought-stricken Cape Town and research into adaptation, decision-making and governance, this blog offers three lessons for cities seeking to adapt to climate change.
FRACTAL Learning - Adaptation Inspiration Theme Module 3
Adaptation Inspiration Theme: Applying an Integrated Catchment Management System to Cape Town
The SEI Initiative on Climate Services
This initiative is developing and testing a new framework - Tandem - for the improved co-design, use and interpretation of climate services.
City-scale decisions
How do cities take effective decisions in the management of climate change impacts and in organising their functions, communities and economies so as to reduce...
Cape Town lessons in adapting
How to be a municipality that is adapting well: lessons from within the City of Cape Town from weADAPT
Since 2006 there have been efforts within the City of Cape Town local government...
Strengthening climate resilience in African cities - A framework for working with informality
What opportunities and challenges does climate compatible development present in the context of rapidly growing cities across the African continent, where two key features are...
Southern Africa Adaptation Colloquium Film
This short film captures the key messages and debates emerging from the first Southern Africa Adaptation Colloquium, held in November 2013.
Managing coastal risks in Cape Town
Cape Town coastal defense (photo credit: Sean Wilson)
Cape Town has an extensive coastline. The city's coast provides economic opportunities, recreational spaces, and...
Working together on Cape Town flooding
Flooding in Cape Town (photo credit: Rodger Bosch)
The City of Cape Town faces many challenges: in-migration, housing and service delivery backlogs, budget...
Governing climate risks in Cape Town
Cape Town has an extensive coastline, numerous wetlands and winters marked by heavy rains and stormy seas. The coast, wetlands and waterways count as major assets to the city, but also pose...
Climate and Development Outlook for Rwanda
CDKN’s 8th Climate and Development Outlook takes a geographically focused look at climate compatible development in Rwanda. For several years now, the Government of Rwanda has...
Marginal Abatement Cost Curves
This paper explains different approaches to using Marginal Abatement Cost (MAC) curves as a mitigation decision tool. It also demonstrates appropriate interpretation of MAC curves through...
Using climate information to plan adaptation in Cape Town
A vegetable farmer in Philippi, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Source: FLICKR/KOSMOSELEEVIKE
This case study focuses on the climate dimensions of land use...
A case study using step-by-step climate guidance
This case study in a suburb of the city of Cape Town, South Africa, highlights how climate information can be used to support land use management.
Cape Town's City Development Strategy and Climate Change
Cape Town’s City Development Strategy (CDS), adopted by the Cape Town City Council in October 2012, presents a vision for the city in 2040, together with a set of goals and strategies. The...
City Development Strategy
Climate change is a relatively new area of concern at the city scale that has significant and far-reaching implications for the way we plan and influence the future trajectory of cities,...
Equitable Access to Sustainable Development
The effectiveness and stability of any agreement, especially as a basis for cooperation, largely depends on the perception of its fairness by the agreeing parties. It is for...
Linking models
Policy makers and researchers in the MAPS (Mitigation Action Plans and Scenarios Programme) countries, namely Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and South Africa are interested in...
Flooding in Graveyard pond
Shacks in the informal settlement of Graveyard Pond located in a stormwater detention pond (photo by Laura Drivdal 30.03.2011)
IntroductionThe aim of this report is...
Flooding in Egoli
Children playing in still-standing water, illustrating how the water stays in the paths of the settlement after only one night of rainfall (photo by Laura Drivdal 1.9.2010...
Regional climate change messages
This article provides guidance on how to build a message about changes in the regional climate (rather than the global climate).
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