Cities are grappling with a range of hazards and shocks that underscore the urgent need for enhanced resilience and climate action. The frequency of climate-related natural disasters has increased globally, posing unique challenges for cities. At the same time environmental degradation, growing inequalities within society and deep economic interconnections may have disruptive economic impacts, which disproportionately affected vulnerable groups and widened existing divides such as socio-economic inequity in cities underscored the urgent need for enhanced resilience and preparedness in cities and urban areas.

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Cities and local governments are on the ‘frontline of opportunity’ to reduce the impacts of disasters, as they have a key role to play in keeping people out of poverty, protecting hard-earned local development gains, and enabling municipalities to become more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. Faced with challenges such as the climate and disaster emergency and other shocks and stresses, resilience building can no longer be treated as a stand-alone issue. Governments at both the national and local levels must take a long-term approach to risk reduction and make resilience building an integral part of sustainable development.

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To support cities and local governments efforts and activities in risk reduction and resilience, the consortium of core partners including United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), AIT Regional Resource Center (AIT RRC.AP),  United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), and ICLEI–Local Governments for Sustainability, join efforts to support implementation of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)  , a 10-year global partnership aiming to accelerate local resilience and convene series of Thematic webinars and online session aiming to share cities, experience, knowledge, lessons learned, and best practices to strengthen cities resilience to climate and disaster risks .

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​These webinars will explore a variety of topics and case studies from the field related to learning city development, with a particular emphasis on how the climate crisis affects local communities. Special attention will be given to examining the connections between the climate emergency and other thematic areas of focus within the global network, including education for sustainable development, lifelong learning for health and global citizenship education.

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