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Cities are on the front lines of climate change, as major contributors to global emissions and as places particularly vulnerable to its impacts. Addressing climate change in cities requires comprehensive, multi-faceted approaches that combine resilience, mitigation, and adaptation strategies. Most importantly, climate action in cities must also be inclusive, ensuring that all residents (especially those most vulnerable), benefit from more sustainable and equitable urban environments.

 

As urban areas expand and disaster risk rises, cities are increasingly interested in integrating resilience into their development plans. Recognizing inclusive urban resilience as a cornerstone of sustainable development, local governments are prioritizing and scaling up actions to reduce risk, enhance preparedness, and strengthen recovery capabilities. By mitigating potential losses and safeguarding vulnerable populations from falling into poverty, improved and inclusive urban resilience ensures the sustainability of development gains and contributes to long-term disaster risk reduction.

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Building climate and disaster risk-resilient cities is an essential component of addressing the dual challenges of climate change and disasters. These cities must be able to absorb and adapt to shocks and stress from climate change, extreme weather events, and other hazards like earthquakes, floods, influx of population or pandemics. Resilient cities not only protect their infrastructure and economy but also ensure the well-being of their populations, especially vulnerable groups, and minimize the long-term impacts of disasters.

 

There are various homegrown evidence-based strategies that can build a resilient city. These strategies can be categorized such as inclusive urban planning and infrastructure resilience, ecosystem-based approaches, disaster preparedness and early warning systems, water and energy resilience, social protection and health systems, urban mobility and transportation, climate finance and partnerships, smart city technologies.

 

OBJECTIVES
 

This capacity building workshop, while promoting the importance of effective climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, will provide:

• an opportunity for cities and local governments to enhance their capacities for developing Cities’ climate action plans.

• a platform for in-depth learning, knowledge sharing and exchange of good practices among participants;

• a space for city-to-city and multi-stakeholder cooperation for building resilience in cities by integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction principles into cities' wider development strategies, policies, plans and programmes.

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TARGET PARTICIPANTS

By invitation only

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