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Climate Change Crisis And Cities

In the 2022 Global Risks Report prepared by World Economic Forum (WEF),
risks similar to the ones mentioned in the findings of IPCC Report. The report
lists the three most important risks as (1) failure in the climate actions (2)
extreme weather events and (3) the loss of biosiversity. These three risks are
even greater than the one imposed by Covid-19. This is because the severity
of these risks and their environmental, economic and social consequences
affect all living beings, humans and settlers in the world (WEF, 2022a). Thus,
effective precautions against the negative results and risks in the fight agains
climate change and adaptation to climate change have become inevitable.
In this respect, the most suitable administrative scale is cities. This is because
with their big populations and the economic activities they host, cities are the
places most effected from the negative consequences mentioned above. The
issue of making cities resilient to climate change is also discussed as part of
UN 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) (Figure 1). In
fact, this issue has become a fundamental determinant of SDGs (Gu, 2019: 1).

Figure 1: Sustainable Development Goals (UNDP, 2022a)

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