Geography class: How cities around the world are tackling climate change
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IB DP: Urban environments, Global climate — vulnerability and resilience
Click on the link below to watch the video and then answer the questions:
How cities around the world are tackling climate change
How could it be possible that “cities emit 70% of the planet’s greenhouse gases”?
Use at least two located examples to illustrate the threat climate change and related weather events have upon cities.
Explain how strategies associated with increasing the amount of vegetation in cities could mitigate the consequences of climate change.
Richard Allaway, International School of Geneva/geographyalltheway.com
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