Artha Global, Gauteng City Region Observatory, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Karachi Urban Lab and Nanyang Technological University invite you to an online seminar, City profiles: governing climate change in Johannesburg, Mumbai, Karachi and Jakarta.
The event was held on the 29th of November: 10:30 – 12:00 SAST/ 13:30 – 15:00 PKT/ 14:00 – 15:30 IST / 15:30 -17:00 WIB
Cities across South and Southeast Asia and Africa will face unique developmental and social challenges in the coming decades as rapid urbanisation confronts rising environmental pressures.
While each ‘Southern’ city presents unique socio-environmental dilemmas, certain commonalities bind them together. Informality, stretched municipal capacity, limited resources and a set of environmental and economic justice issues will rear their heads as state governments and municipalities across geographies wrestle with them.
This seminar brings together a set of researchers working across Southern geographies to shed light on what cities are doing to tackle climate change and other core environmental issues. They will dive into both successes and failures in different cities’ approaches and discuss what they can learn from each other, and also what they have in common.
Register for the online event here.
Speakers:
Adam Abdullah, Associate Director, Karachi Urban Lab
Christina Culwick Fatti, Senior Researcher, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
Sam Downes, Junior Fellow, Artha Global
Galuh Indraprahasta, Senior Researcher, Cool Infrastructures
Moderator: Aqdas Fatima, Karachi Urban Lab