How developing countries can embrace change and reap opportunities from sustainable urbanisation

Sep 12, 2023

Sustainable urbanisation is essential in the journey to net zero. Image: Amani Nation on Unsplash

Victoria Delbridge

Head of Cities that Work Initiative , International Growth Centre

Oliver Harman

Cities Economist, International Growth Centre, University of Oxford

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha

Policy Economist, International Growth Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science

Our Impact

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

Davos Agenda

Listen to the article

Have you read?

Figure 1: Urbanisation under different shared socio-economic pathways; urbanisation is much higher in scenario SSP1, associated with a greater commitment towards adaptation and mitigation Image: Based on author's calculations using data from Riahi, et al (2017)

Discover

How is the World Economic Forum fighting the climate crisis?

Figure 2: Developing-country production and reserves of critical net zero minerals Image: Data from Arrobas et al. 2017

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.