Building resilient cities and adhering to the "1.5 ℃" climate | City | Resilience
In 1997, the Kyoto Protocol, adopted by the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, first proposed the concepts of carbon trading and carbon offsetting, which were seen as the substantive beginning of the concept of "carbon neutrality". At that time, the word "low-carbon" was still unfamiliar to the vast majority of people, but now it has become a household name.
The key driving force behind the widespread dissemination of the concept of "low-carbon" is the increasingly widespread and far-reaching impact of climate change on the global economy and society. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a report stating that human activities are changing the climate in ways that are unprecedented and even irreversible. If humans do nothing, extreme heatwaves, droughts, and floods will increase sharply in just over a decade.
In order to cope with the impact of climate change, many cities around the world are exploring ways to build resilient cities. The Paris Agreement, adopted at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference, sets a threshold of 1.5 ℃, one of the key global warming indicators, to reduce extreme weather, control sea level rise, and protect the ecological environment.
As an important carrier of the national "dual carbon" strategy, Shanghai has proactively proposed to build a more sustainable resilient ecological city. The Shanghai Urban Master Plan clearly states the need to build an urban disaster prevention and reduction system, strengthen disaster warning and control, and ensure space for disaster prevention and reduction and rescue, and enhance the city's ability to resist natural disasters such as floods and land subsidence, as well as urban operational risks such as resource and energy supply and sudden public events.
What is the process of climate change on Earth, and how should people scientifically view the impact of climate change? What do we need to do to slow down the rapidly changing climate? How do urban planning and design need to transform in order to enhance the city's disaster prevention capabilities? How should we build resilient cities?
On June 17th, the SEA Hi event was initiated by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources and hosted by the Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute! The forum, with the theme of "Adhering to 1.5 ℃ and Building Resilient Cities," invites researchers and practitioners in the fields of climate, transportation, planning, and low-carbon to jointly explore climate response strategies.
