Climate impacts are a growing cause for concern for city managers worldwide, according to the CDP, an investor-backed climate disclosure group.

At least 70% of city populations threatened by hazards

For those living along the floodplains of the Yamuna River, being displaced by floods has become a way of life.

The urban elite are enriching urban life through private philanthropy. Enlisting them to the cause of climate might not be a silver bullet, but can lead to short-term gains in adaptation

Cities worldwide are warming by 0.5 degrees Celsius on average per decade, 29 per cent faster than in rural areas, according to a study which suggests that climate change and urban expansion are accelerating surface temperatures.

To be sure, groundwater collected from handpumps and the submersible pump is usually not used for drinking by residents, who instead rely on tankers or cans in the absence of regular piped water.

City residents have long resorted to low-cost, do-it-yourself remedies that may be harmful to human health.

Changing the current fleet of Delhi buses to electric buses could reduce 74.67% of the total pollutant emissions.

One billion people around the world still live in slums, but attitudes towards these informal settlements are changing. We explore the global attempts to improve and formalise them, and the barriers that make such work so difficult

“Currently, district or city-level disaster management departments are predominantly concerned with rescue and recovery, rather than resilience and preparedness, which is what they have to focus on,” says Jaya Dhindaw, Program Director of Integrated Urban Development, Planning and Resilience at World Resources Institute, India.