03/05/2025
Urban Communities for Climate Action - Are You Part of It?
India’s cities grapple with extreme heat waves, flooding, water scarcity, and poor air quality. Building truly climate-resilient and liveable urban spaces has become urgent. While policy directives and large-scale infrastructure projects are vital, meaningful change often begins at the neighbourhood level. Local initiatives—driven by residents—offer a powerful, adaptive, and more sustainable approach to climate resilience and urban livability.
The challenges of urban livability cannot be solved or addressed by the government alone. Neighbourhood-level action play a critical role in plugging the gaps and accelerating local resilience. The ones that are doing it well need to be recognised and celebrated so that they can inspire more citizens to take up community voluntary service.
SustainabilityNext and Urban Venture Labs are collaborating to share community-led urban climate action success stories. A series of articles and video interviews has been scheduled in the coming weeks.
The series will showcase 5 initiatives that are making a significant on-ground impact in Indian cities. It demonstrates how citizens have been able to create lasting, sustainable and hard-won impact by partnering with municipalities. We believe there are 100 more such stories to tell.
If you know about such initiatives, please mail: [email protected]
The larger purpose of The Urban Communities for Climate Action (UCCA) Series is to offer a platform where communities can network and explore better access to funding, technology and data. This platform will accelerate and multiply the social, economic and behavioural impact of neighbourhood communities across India.
