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Adaptation to Climate Change
Preparing Port Cities for the Consequences of Climate Change
Including joint City Port measures to prevent inundation and flooding of the port and connecting infrastructure in strategic planning documents, and through a suitable land management policy.
What actions should be taken to tackle the issue of rising sea levels and the risk of coastal flooding?
Originally, port cities were founded in commercially strategic locations without taking into account environmental considerations. Studies of climate change and rising sea levels have highlighted the vulnerability of coastal areas and many port cities around the world. Waterfront areas and those where cities and ports meet are at particular risk and can serve as testing grounds for resilience strategies inspired by natural functions. Combining infrastructures and natural functions is clever and important in this situation. In Boston, stakeholders collaborate on a project to mitigate the effects of climate change and the risk of flooding in the city’s urban spaces.
This good practice also includes objective 1.5 (Making resilience and carbon neutrality a priority in the design and operation of Port City installations with the use of the latest technologies in emissions reduction and CO2 capture/storage) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.
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