Drowning Megacities: On the Front Lines of the African Climate Battle

Interactive storytelling project from AlJazeera Labs: the African megacities are under dual pressure from uncontrolled urbanisation and floods worsened by climate change. The result is a catastrophe that is unravelling in slow motion and threatening the livelihoods of millions of people.

Link: http://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2015/drowning_megacities

This short film by Mistra Urban Futures captures the key messages and debates emerging from the first Southern Africa Adaptation Colloquium, held in November 2013 and co-hosted by Mistra Urban Futures Cape Town platform's Climate Change Think Tank, a partnership within the Knowledge Transfer Programme.