ABSTRACT
As the global discourse shifts from ‘what’ to do about climate change to ‘how’ to do it, the focus is increasingly on cities, and particularly the rapidly expanding cities of the Global South. Many of world’s fastest growing cities are also poorly resourced, have high levels of contingency and informal governance and limited state reach. As yet there are insufficient examples of how these cities might move beyond the consultant-driven documents outlining normative climate change aspirations, to galvanise climate action at the city scale.
