cities faced with climate change

How to reinvent cities in the face of crises? “We are going to experience climate change. We are going to experience shocks on the scale of all territories. Whether coastal cities or metropolises“, begins Ludovic Faytre. Urban geographer at the Paris Region Institute, he carried out an inventory which estimates that 1.6 billion people are threatened by rising sea levels on a global scale.

But how to coexist with these new climate challenges in the future? Many countries already impacted are asking themselves this question and trying to answer it. “We certainly do not anticipate them enough“, according to the geographer present on the 11 p.m. set of Wednesday, February 16. “It is also questions around the networks of interdependence“, he continues. Finally, to be able to progress, it will be necessary “accept and understand our vulnerabilities“, in order to “engage in resilience actions“, he concludes.