Economy
Which Cities Are Most Prepared for Climate Change?
According to a new report, governments in Latin American and Canada are doing the most, American cities come in dead last.
Cities around the world are creating plans to deal with our changing climate. But it's not the richest or largest urban governments taking the lead.
The cities taking the most proactive approach to climate change are those in regions most vulnerable to its risks, according to a new report [PDF] out from ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Climate change planning is most prevalent in places where natural disasters have been increasing and where wide temperature and rainfall variability is creating very noticeable effects on the environment. Most of these cities tend to be in Latin America.