The COVID-19 pandemic has had a substantial impact on urban communities and climate adaptation . The pandemic has revealed both systemic under-investment resulting in multiple, persistent health-related vulnerabilities  and co-benefits for urban interventions to reduce future pandemic and climate change risk. The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have pushed an additional 119 to 124 million people into poverty in 2020, with South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa each contributing roughly two-fifths of this total . At city level, community groups, non-governmental organisations  and local governments face challenges to bring agencies already working on social and economic development into coordinated action to reduce urban vulnerabilities and manage risks. COVID-19 and climate change impacts are exacerbated by widening social inequality. Addressing the causes of social vulnerability creates opportunity for transformative adaptation. 
IPCC
Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
IPCC Report