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Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science The Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science showcases the breadth of knowledge needed to support decision-makers and urban practitioners to tackle these challenges. Building on existing knowledge and action, the Agenda aims to generate greater knowledge in support of practice and decision- making to address climate change in urban areas. This is the primary outcome of the Cities and Climate Change Science conference (City of Edmonton, Canada, 5-7 March 2018), reported to the 48 th Plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Incheon, Korea, October 2018). Please find the full text at https://citiesipcc.org/beyond/global-research-and-action-agenda-on-cities-and-climate-change-science/ Urban Integrate Cros s-c utting Communi cate Action The middle circle (multi-coloured) presents six topical research areas, where more evidence-based knowledge would support practitioners and decision makers in: • Addressing specific city-level challenges; • Informing integrated actions that are sustainable and beneficial. The inner circle (orange) presents key crosscutting issues and knowledge gaps for a step-change of knowledge generation on cities and climate change. Underpinning cities’ efforts toward: • Capacity of local institutions • Interconnectivity of different sectors • Impacts of scale and data availability The external circle (green) presents three suggested approaches to facilitate implementation of this Research and Action Agenda. Working together, the science, practice and policy communities bring the large benefit in building evidence-based knowledge for climate action in cities. These approaches provides possible but not exhaustive avenues to enhance such collaboration.
