ABSTRACT
Climate change and global warming have posed essential and major challenges to leading cities around the world. Different extreme weather events induced by climate change and global warming have caused serious damages and disruptions to major cities, especially those in emerging economies. These events include hurricanes, typhoons, extreme heat summers, freezing cold winters, extreme heavy downpours, flooding and droughts. In addition, the rising urbanisation, population growths and increasing pollutions have put more pressures on cities globally. As a result, new green smart city designs and transformations, with clean renewable energy applications and energy-efficient green buildings, have been important priorities for leading cities globally. These various new smart city developments with renewable energy integrations will be discussed further in this chapter, together with city examples.
