How to build a climate-friendly city - The Climate Question podcast, BBC World Service

More than 7 BILLION of us are expected to be living in urban areas by 2050. So what are the world’s great cities doing about climate change?

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Humans are now city creatures – with more than half the world’s population already living in urban environments, and huge growth expected in cities in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa during the rest of the 21st century.

So mayors are on the front-line of dealing with climate change – whether it’s keeping people cool during heatwaves or re-designing cities to cope with floods.

In this edition of The Climate Question, Host Jordan Dunbar hears about inspiring solutions from cable cars in Colombia to water parks in the Netherlands and city gardens in the Philippines.

His guests are Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone and Co-Chair of the C40 Cities Coalition, and Rogier van den Berg, an architect and urban planner who’s now Global Director at the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

Jordan, Yvonne and Rogier also discuss the crucial role that cities need to play in reducing carbon emissions by making buildings more energy-efficient and rethinking transport.

00:00 The scale of the challenge
00:21 Can we build better cities?
01:19 A tour of Freetown
02:33 Rotterdam's transformation
03:57 Why cities matter for climate
04:52 Where city emissions come from
05:26 The danger of locking in bad habits
06:57 City solutions around the world
08:08 Freetown's tree-planting mission
08:55 Turning market waste into energy
10:04 Insurance and cooling for market women
10:37 Informal settlements and vulnerability
16:15 Rethinking transport and culture
17:28 The challenge of cooking fuel
20:55 The health dimension

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