As part of Good Design for a Bad World, a series of talks we are hosting with Dutch Design Week, we will ask whether designers can help to solve climate change. Here are eight ideas already developed. More about Eight designs that respond to the threat of climate change
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has championed the importance of creativity in tackling global issues like climate change and gender equality, becoming the first in his position to do so in 25 years. More about "Design and technology are changing the way we live" says Justin Trudeau
Ten teams of architects and engineers have been chosen to design solutions that will help San Francisco and the surrounding region combat the effects of climate change. More about BIG, MVRDV, James Corner and more to tackle Bay Area climate change
Disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma are inevitable when we construct cities in harm's way, says Aaron Betsky, who believes we have designed ourselves into a Catch-22 of create and protect. More about "The more we build in areas that endanger us, the more we erect defensive systems"
What Design Can Do has teamed up with Autodesk Foundation and IKEA Foundation to launch the Climate Action Challenge, a competition inviting designers to come up with proposals responding to climate change. More about Climate Action Challenge asks designers for proposals to tackle climate change
France has announced it will ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040, as part of plans to make the country carbon-neutral. More about France to ban all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040
Design studios The Unseen and The Lost Explorer have come together to create a T-shirt that changes colour when it comes into contact with polluted water. More about Colour-changing T-shirt alerts wearers to the effects of climate change
Climeworks has opened a groundbreaking plant in Switzerland where carbon dioxide is sucked from the air before being resold. More about The world's first commercial carbon-capture plant opens in Switzerland
The American Institute of Architects and the US Green Building Council have condemned US president Donald Trump for his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement, and have vowed to continue battling climate change. More about US architecture organisations declare opposition to Trump's climate treaty withdrawal
Bowl-shaped vessels would collect rainwater on the roofs of buildings located in hot and dry climates in a proposal by Iranian practice BMDesign Studios. More about Concave roofs collect rainwater for arid areas in proposal by BMDesign Studios
A new type of modular tile promises to help reduce flooding in cities hit by increased rainfall due to climate change. More about The Climate Tile by Tredje Natur aims to stop cities flooding
Architects and developers working in Miami are belatedly responding to climate change, amid a growing sense of alarm over how rising sea levels are affecting the city. More about Miami architecture finally addresses "visible and tangible impacts of sea-level rise"
Future Makers: in this exclusive movie, Italian architect Arturo Vittori explains how his wooden Warka Water structures can provide clean drinking water for rural communities in the developing world. More about Arturo Vittori's Warka Water towers harvest clean drinking water from the air
A network of sunken basins and water-purifying planting has been developed by landscape studio SLA and engineering firm Ramboll to help avert flooding in a Copenhagen neighbourhood (+ slideshow). More about Sunken pools and planting proposed to ease flooding in Copenhagen neighbourhood
US studio James Corner Field Operations has created an installation for the National Building Museum in Washington DC that evokes a glacial landscape, with giant shard-like forms that jut upward and downward (+ slideshow). More about James Corner Field Operations installs over 30 "icebergs" in Washington DC museum
Danish studio Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has revealed its designs for a climate research and visitor centre in Greenland, featuring a tent-like structure and a rooftop platform for observing icebergs (+ slideshow). More about Dorte Mandrup unveils plans for tent-like climate research centre in Greenland
US-based firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has envisioned a new district in Tokyo that includes a mile-high skyscraper and infrastructure elements that will protect the city from natural disasters (+ slideshow). More about KPF conceives futuristic new city quarter for archipelago in Tokyo Bay
Work has completed on the UK's "first amphibious house" by Baca Architects, which rises in its dock-like foundations to avoid flood water (+ slideshow). More about Baca Architects completes buoyant house on the River Thames
Architecture studio Encore Heureux has built a pavilion outside Paris' city hall featuring a facade made out of reclaimed doors and insulation recycled from an old supermarket roof (+ slideshow). More about Encore Heureux uses recycled materials to build Circular Pavilion in Paris
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava's science museum with a skeletal roof that projects over a public plaza has opened in Rio de Janeiro (+ slideshow). More about Museum of Tomorrow by Santiago Calatrava opens in Rio de Janeiro