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These self-study courses guide city officials through best practices for assessing climate risks and mitigating flood and heat hazards.
These three interconnected courses are designed to build the capacity of city officials and urban practitioners to conduct vulnerability assessments.
From UrbanShift's capacity-building activities, this scorching city in northeastern Brazil is drawing inspiration and technical knowledge to build sustainability from the ground up.
By analyzing nearly 300 nature-based solutions projects across sub-Saharan Africa from 2012 to 2023, this report offers a comprehensive overview of NBS in the region and provides recommendations to scale NBS projects for climate resilience.
This three-part webinar series offered a comprehensive training on how nature-based solutions and tools like the Climate Hazard Vulnerability Assessment framework can help cities build resilience to risks like extreme heat and flooding.
From innovative data analytics to urban greening, cities like Cape Town and Medellín are tackling the growing extreme heat crisis head-on.
In this webinar, UrbanShift and WRI lead a conversation with cities and experts on effective strategies to cool down urban areas.
Cities can play an important role in ensuring decent conditions for vulnerable workers, protecting them from the effects of extreme heat and promoting the right to healthy and safe workplaces. Here’s how cities can get started.
Reflecting on an impactful 2023, UrbanShift will continue its focus in 2024 on supporting collaborative, cross-cutting leadership to fund and implement sustainable urban transformations.
As extreme heat rises across the globe, Eugenia Kargbo is showing how cities can prioritize strategies to mitigate risks and support residents' wellbeing.
