The climate crisis in 2050

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Her windows catch the breeze, and because the mayor has adapted to climate change by banning cars across the whole city centre and no fossil fuels are burned nearby, there's little air pollution.

Back in October 2019, the C40 group of 94 global megacities had used IPCC and World Bank figures to forecast that 1.6 billion people living in over 970 world cities would be regularly exposed to extreme high temperatures by 2050.

It said another 800 million people living in 570 cities would be vulnerable to sea level rise and coastal flooding, including the world's great coastal cities.

It also said that 2.5 billion people would be living in the over 1,600 cities where national food supplies were threatened by the climate crisis - including supposedly richer cities such as Athens, Barcelona, Istanbul and Los Angeles.

Her city did its best to adapt, inspired perhaps by a report from the Coalition for Urban Transitions, backed by some of the world's leading economists, that showed that governments that invested in low-carbon cities could not just help mitigate the effects of the climate crisis but could also massively enhance economic prosperity, attract the most talented people - and, not incidentally, make cities far better places to live.

Those cities that start early in adapting for the climate breakdown will be the most successful, says Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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