Cities need $72bn boost to protect residents from climate change, CDP reveals
An analysis of the climate mitigation and adaptation plans of 800 major cities has found that one in four does not have the budget to protect their residents from climate impacts like floods.
Pictured: Flooding in Texas following Storm Harvey in 2017
Conducted by CDP, the analysis looks at the data disclosed through the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System by 812 cities in 2020. Collectively, these cities are set to represent some 5% of the world’s population by the end of the decade.
While CDP welcomes the fact that more cities are disclosing using the system than ever before, with just 48 cities having used it in 2011, the analysis raises several red flags in terms of climate adaptation – preparing cities for environmental impacts that are already ‘locked in’.
Globally, real estate firms could rack up $2.5trn of additional costs in the future unless they accelerate action to decarbonise buildings and to boost climate adaptation and resilience this decade.
floodwater in it. the two back-up generators don t work either. they are in containers and they are the size on the back of an 18-wheeler. that is what we are thinking about. we may see more fire in the next couple of days for the other containers. and this arkema manufactures organic peroxides, a family of compounds used in pharmaceuticals to construction materials, pipes, et cetera if you wonder what that plant is all about. meantime, while this really is a colossal humanitarian effort, this issue, this storm harvey gets political because much of houston, 80% of the people do not have flood insurance. people are going to be relying on federal funding in a very big way. what are your concerns about a bill being passed by congress to
mark. here s more of a map. that way if you re not there are with some of those town names, to show you, this right here being downtown houston. this is where the intercontinental airport is located up here. they picked up over 30 inches of rain. the heaviest really kind of being on the east and the southern region of the storm. the problem, brooke, going forward is we still expect some rain in the short-term forecast. the good news is at least it looks by friday and by saturday that folks in texas will finally get that dry weather that they need to really begin the clean-up process. and just even today as we ve been hearing from our correspondents, just being able to see the sunshine for the first time in days, just even, you know, psychologically, just helps so much, i know, for these folks clearing out of their homes. allison, thank you so much. we re keeping a very close eye on these live pictures. this is a hallway of a nursing home in port arthur, texas, feeling the brunt of so
president trump says texas can handle anything. hello, everybody. i am mike barnicle, filling in for nicolle wallace. the country turns to the president today, who is in texas, as he faces the first natural disaster of his presidency. emergency crews have been working around the clock, and thousands of people have been rescued as the texas coast and greater houston area battle catastrophic flooding from what is now tropical storm harvey. some areas are expecting to see an additional one to two feet of rain. right now the president is in austin, texas, but this afternoon he visited corpus christi, one of the coastal cities that initially felt the brunt of harvey as a category 3 hurricane but has not seen nearly the same kind of flood damage that the houston area is suffering through at the moment. the president was briefed on relief efforts by fema, the coast guard, and the national guard. and he delivered the following