African cities aren’t doing enough to adapt to climate change: lessons from Durban and Harare

By Lorena Pasquini, Associate Researcher, African Climate & Development Initiative and Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town
Alice McClure, PhD candidate at the The Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town
Anna Taylor, Senior Research Officer
Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya, Associate Professor of Development Studies, Centre for Development Studies, Chinhoyi University if Technology, Chinhoyi University of Technology
Lulu van Rooyen (nee Pretorius), Honorary Research Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Researchers have found six steps to overturn unfair economic and social systems that leave disadvantaged people at risk of climate disasters.

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