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Climate Change Crisis And Cities

Figure 7: Sponge City Approach to Urban Water Management (Pattinson, 2016)

Among the green infrastructure practices used for water management
in cities are: overflow parks, taşkın parkları, rain water trenches with plants,
permeable floors, green pavements, green roofs, renaturalization of water
canals, rain gardens and urban forests (Birpınar and Tuğaç, 2021).

Meeting the financial needs regarding climate actions in the cities
Today, one of the most important problems in the fight with climate change
is to provide the funding necessary for the climate change adaptation and
greenhouse gas mitigation actions, which are ususally highly costly. In the
State of Cities Climate Finance Report prepared by World Bank in 2021, it
was mentioned that between 2017 and 2018, a total of $384 billion investment
was made globally on climate action in cities. This however, was far below
the five trillion dollars, which is the calculated net amount needed for this
endeavor. This difference cause climate change adaptation and greenhouse
gas mitigation actions to fail, and aggravates the effects of climage change in
cities (WEF, 2022b: 9).
Especially in providing resillience in the cities, adaptation measures gain
importance. However, the funding for climate change adaptation takes up
only 21% of the total global public funding in 2020. According to UN figures,
the adaptation costs in developing countries will be around $140-300 billion by
2030 and $280-500 billion by 2050. However, investment to resillience have the

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