This podcast discusses the idea of Climate Resilient Development (CRD), a concept that integrates adaptation and mitigation with sustainable development to achieve a liveable future. It emphasise that a narrowing window of opportunity necessitates urgent and fundamental shifts in current development approaches, moving beyond traditional economic growth models towards inclusive, just, and equitable outcomes. It draws on research from the Climate Risk Lab on: Pathways for urgent action towards climate resilient development, Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02190-0 Climate-resilient development planning for cities: progress from Cape Town, Nature partner journal Urban Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00089-x Climate Resilient Development Pathways in Global Drylands, Anthropocene Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s44177-022-00027-z

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