02. State of the World's Cities

State of the World's Cities: an overview of interactions between cities and global environmental change

Monday 26 March 2012 - State of the Planet, 16:00

Room 4

Chaired by William Solecki and Richard Dawson

Convenors: William Solecki, Institute for Sustainable Cities; Karen C. Seto, Yale University; Patricia Romero-Lankao, Institute for the Study of Society and Environment, NCAR; Richard Dawson, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research/School Civil Eng. & Geosciences, Newcastle University; Michail Fragkias, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) project, Arizona State University

This session highlights comprehensive assessment projects on the pressures placed by global environmental change on urban areas as well as the pressures of urban areas on the planet. We include contributions from a diverse range of fields in social and natural sciences that seek to understand these interactions. [Session organized by the IHDP Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) project].

Cities as first responders: Case studies from the First UCCRN Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3)

Dr. C. Rosenzweig^{1 , 5}; Dr. W. Solecki²; Dr. S. Hammer³; Dr. S. Mehrotra⁴; ¹NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA ²Hunter CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, USA ³Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA ⁴Milano at The New School, USA ⁵Columbia University, USA

Megacity Pollution Effects from Urban to Global Scales: Key Results from the EU FP7 Project “MEGAPOLI”

Dr. M.G. Lawrence¹; Dr. A. Baklanov²; Prof. S. Pandis³; Dr. M. Beekmann⁴; U. Baltensperger⁵; E.U. MEGAPOLI-Team⁶; ¹Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany ²Danish Meteorological Institute, Denmark ³FORTH, University of Patras, Greece ⁴LISA/CNRS, France ⁵Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland ⁶FP7 Consortium, Coordinator: DMI, Denmark

Exposure to Heat Stress in Urban Environments: Current Status and Future Prospects in a Changing Climate

Mr. A.M. de Sherbinin¹; Dr. O. Wilhelmi²; Dr. M. Hayden²; ¹CIESIN, Columbia University, USA ²National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA

The natural resource needed to implement adaptation and mitigation strategies

Dr. O. Heidrich¹; Dr. R. Dawson¹; ¹Newcastle University, UK

Plans and Realisation - How European Urban Regions Proceed in Adaptation and Mitigation Planning

Dr. D. Reckien¹; Prof. J. Flacke²; Dr. R. Dawson³; ¹Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany ²ITC Netherlands, The Netherlands ³Newcastle University, UK

Indicators of Climate Resilience for Cities