Researchers have found six steps to overturn unfair economic and social systems that leave disadvantaged people at risk of climate disasters.
- Associate Researcher, African Climate & Development Initiative and Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town
Marginalised or minority groups seem to suffer the most from heat-related deaths and disease.
Informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are highly vulnerable to the health effects of heat.
If resilience efforts don’t consider justice issues, they will end up making those who are the most in need the least resilient.
Porto Novo in Benin, Rouen in France and Da Nang in Vietnam are taking steps to mitigate the harsh effects of climate change, which will hit them hard if they don’t.
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