Dehradun, Sept. 10 -- Municipal Commissioner Namami Bansal delivered a lecture on the 'Role of Urban Forestry and Community Engagement in Building Climate Resilient Cities' at the Forest Research Institute (FRI) here today. In her address, she emphasised on the urgent need for integrated urban planning to address the escalating impacts of climate change. Drawing attention to recent urban floods in Gurugram, Noida, and Bengaluru, she underlined the vulnerability of metropolitan areas to extreme weather events and environmental degradation.

In her speech, Bansal also highlighted the challenges faced by Dehradun, including challenges such as rapid population growth, rising temperatures, erratic monsoon patterns, and increasing pollution lev...