Keynote – Climate Solutions & cities: Priorities and evidence needs for the upcoming IPCC Special Report

Key messages:

• Local climate solutions have a large potential for meeting climate goals and more often than not co-align synergistically with improving human well-being & health.
• Context is particularly important in the assessment of climate solutions. Finding adequate ways to represent local contexts in a global cities assessment, both by reflecting geospatial high resolution data and local knowledge, is key to providing a relevant special report.
• Cities are the arena where local behavioral, infrastructural, and technology solutions for climate change mitigation and adaptation are realized.
• There is a key opportunity to advance the urban solutions by synthesizing the disparate solution-oriented evidence into discrete chunks of knowledge and typologies that can be easily drawn from by the IPCC author in the Special Report.

Followed by a panel on Challenges for policy learning from highly localized evidence