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Climate change research to focus more on cities

12 March 2018

by Jonathan Andrews

More research on cities and climate change will be undertaken through the establishment of a global blueprint to better understand the impact on cities to further help the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), according to a pledge made by participants at the three-day IPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference.

The agreement charts a course forward for academic, practitioner and urban policy-making communities and was a key outcome of the conference, hosted by the City of Edmonton, Canada.

“There was a strong will on behalf of all three communities–academia, practitioners and policy-makers–to co-generate the knowledge that is called for by the jointly generated research...

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