This report shows how 2020 marked ten years of cities reporting the climate and environmental data through the CDP-ICLEI Unified Reporting System. It presents how in 2020, there has been a 17x increase in city disclosure since 2011 — 812 cities have disclosed, compared to just 48 in 2011. It discusses how cities are aiming to build resilience to protect every person as well as Climate planning to sustain action.
Some of its key findings include:

# 93% of cities are facing significant climate risks
# 43% of cities representing a projected population of 400 million people by 2030, do not have an adaptation plan to tackle climate risks.
# For 74% of cities, climate change is increasing risks to already vulnerable populations.
# 59% of cities have conducted a climate risk and vulnerability assessment.
# 87% of cities are incorporating sustainability in master planning or are intending to do so in the next two years

Cities that incorporate sustainability into master planning identify more than twice (2.4x) as many opportunities from addressing climate change as cities that do not.
Cities with climate action plans identify twice as many opportunities from addressing climate change as cities that do not. These opportunities include business innovation, and additional funding. These cities are also taking five times as many actions to reduce emissions as other cities.

CDP is a global non-profit that runs the world’s environmental disclosure system for subnational governments and companies. Over 10,000 organizations around the world disclosed data through CDP in 2020, including more than 9,600 companies worth over 50% of global market capitalization, and over 940 cities, states and regions —representing a combined population of over 2.6 billion. Visit cdp.net or follow us @CDP to find out more.