Building Climate Resilience for Urban Communities - Localization of Resilience Assessment for sustainable, affordable, and inclusive development

Summary

This WUF12 session addresses the critical need to build climate resilience in urban communities, focusing on vulnerabilities to floods, heat waves, and wildfires, and the challenges of inclusive stakeholder engagement. It highlights the Urban Climate Resilience Program (UCRP), which uses a four-step, tailored approach to identify needs, analyze issues, develop customized solutions, and scale learnings across nine countries. The program is currently in progress, aiming to share lessons learned and best practices for localizing climate adaptation solutions and empowering local leaders.

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