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Cities can recalibrate the worldCities can recalibrate the worldWith more and more people moving to cities every year, scaling the solutions that cities are implementing today can build a resilient future for billions
Local governments worldwide are leading the transition to clean energy, increasing access to basic services, improving public health and enhancing the resilience of communities.
COP28 offers cities an opportunity to showcase their successes, share their knowledge, and advocate for more funding and influence policy.Cities lead of the UN 2030 SustainableDevelopment Agenda targets.Cities lead of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda targets.Global goals. Local implementation.We represent 100 cities building resilience and advancing urban transformations across the world.Together, we help build the political environment for climate action.[dsm_image_carousel gallery_ids="273597" slide_to_show="1" speed="15000" space_between="0" infinite_smooth_scrolling="on" touch_move="on" space_between_tablet="0" space_between_phone="" space_between_last_edited="on|desktop" module_class="cities-slider" _builder_version="4.23" _module_preset="default" background_enable_image="off" transform_scale_tablet="" transform_scale_phone="200%|200%" transform_scale_last_edited="on|phone" transform_translate_tablet="" transform_translate_phone="" transform_translate_last_edited="on|phone" transform_rotate_tablet="" transform_rotate_phone="" transform_rotate_last_edited="on|phone" transform_skew_tablet="" transform_skew_phone="" transform_skew_last_edited="on|phone" transform_origin_tablet="" transform_origin_phone="" transform_origin_last_edited="on|phone" transform_styles_last_edited="on|phone" custom_margin="||||false|true" custom_padding="||||false|true" transform_styles_tablet="" transform_styles_phone="" global_colors_info="{}"][/dsm_image_carousel][dsm_image_carousel gallery_ids="273532,273488,273485" slide_to_show="3" speed="5000" infinite_smooth_scrolling="on" disabled_on="on|on|on" module_class="cities-slider" _builder_version="4.23" _module_preset="default" disabled="on" global_colors_info="{}"][/dsm_image_carousel][dsm_image_carousel gallery_ids="273599" slider_direction="rtl" slide_to_show="1" speed="15000" space_between="0" infinite_smooth_scrolling="on" touch_move="on" module_class="cities-slider" _builder_version="4.23" _module_preset="default" transform_scale="108%|108%" transform_scale_tablet="" transform_scale_phone="215%|215%" transform_scale_last_edited="on|phone" transform_translate_tablet="" transform_translate_phone="" transform_translate_last_edited="on|phone" transform_rotate_tablet="" transform_rotate_phone="" transform_rotate_last_edited="on|phone" transform_skew_tablet="" transform_skew_phone="" transform_skew_last_edited="on|phone" transform_origin_tablet="" transform_origin_phone="" transform_origin_last_edited="on|phone" transform_styles_last_edited="on|phone" transform_styles_tablet="" transform_styles_phone="" global_colors_info="{}"][/dsm_image_carousel][dsm_image_carousel gallery_ids="273530,273493,273494" slider_direction="rtl" slide_to_show="3" speed="5000" infinite_smooth_scrolling="on" disabled_on="on|on|on" module_class="cities-slider" _builder_version="4.23" _module_preset="default" disabled="on" global_colors_info="{}"][/dsm_image_carousel][dsm_image_carousel gallery_ids="273598" slide_to_show="1" speed="15000" space_between="0" infinite_smooth_scrolling="on" touch_move="on" module_class="cities-slider" _builder_version="4.23" _module_preset="default" transform_scale_tablet="" transform_scale_phone="200%|200%" transform_scale_last_edited="on|phone" transform_translate_tablet="" transform_translate_phone="" transform_translate_last_edited="on|phone" transform_rotate_tablet="" transform_rotate_phone="" transform_rotate_last_edited="on|phone" transform_skew_tablet="" transform_skew_phone="" transform_skew_last_edited="on|phone" transform_origin_tablet="" transform_origin_phone="" transform_origin_last_edited="on|phone" transform_styles_last_edited="on|phone" transform_styles_tablet="" transform_styles_phone="" global_colors_info="{}"][/dsm_image_carousel]R-Cities COP28 Key Messages
Building energy resilience is an opportunity to reshape our urban systems and economies to provide for all urban residents and encourage cleaner, greener, and more resilient urban living.
When cities change their energy systems, they can make energy cheaper and more accessible, and reduce their carbon emissions.
Affordable, reliable, and abundant urban power unlocks paths to prosperity and can improve the quality of life of 55% of urban residents living in slum-like conditions without access to reliable electricity
Urban Power Solutions in cities:
Enable a community - focused energy transition.
Activate local economies
Create Green jobs for all members of society.
Discover Urban Power >>
Water is vital for life and for building resilient cities. Investing in urban water resilience is a strategic action that protects our communities against natural hazards like drought, floods, and rising sea levels while simultaneously offering a pathway to urban transformation.
Urban water action:
Positions water as a key driver for sustainable development and climate action.
Ensures access to clean drinking water and sanitation services for everyone.
Supports healthy biodiversity.
Improves risk assessment and planning for water-related shocks
By analyzing water through a resilience lens, a city becomes aware of its interconnected role with urban systems and its wide-ranging impact on communities. This approach transforms water into an opportunity to transition to a sustainable future, stimulating economic activity, decreasing emissions, improving public health, and protecting urban biodiversity.
Discover Water Resilience >>
Equity builds resilience. Shocks and stresses disproportionately affect unrepresented communities facing vulnerabilities. Community resilience can be significantly enhanced by conscientiously nurturing and interweaving the social, physical, natural, and financial capital of communities.
By knowing how communities perceive risk and what barriers make them more prone to risk, local governments gain a deeper understanding of what actions and solutions help them become more resilient.
The intensifying effects of climate change are deeply connected to the health and well-being of communities, especially, communities facing vulnerabilities.
Building community resilience means that everyone, regardless of their background, has equal access to resources and opportunities to adapt, recover, and thrive in the face of climate disasters and other challenges.
Discover Resilience for Community >> Cities Speed Up Change Together with policymakers and funders, we can collectively power change by investing in city resilience projects. As centers of innovation and economic growth, cities generate over 80% of the world's GDP. They are also responsible for 70% of all GHG emissions and home to widening inequality.This dual nature of cities makes them ideal catalysts for change.
Urban action unlocks new opportunities to address challenges on a global scale.Our Urban Resilience LeadersResilient Cities NetworkOur Events
Date & Time
2nd December 2023
8:00 - 9:30
Details
High-level roundtable: The Heat
is On: Mitigating the health impacts
of climate change in underserved
communities
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin
Location
Goals House
Date & Time
2nd December 2023
11:00 - 12:30
Details
Urban Waters - Global Knowledge
Exchange
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin
Location
Water Pavilion
Date & Time
2nd December 2023
13:15 - 14:00
Details
Building Climate Resilience:
Financing Solutions
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin
Location
SMI, Green Zone
Date & Time
2nd December 2023
19:30 - 23:00
Details
Unlocking Financing for Urban Resilience
and Energy Transition
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin
Location
-
Date & Time
3rd December 2023
11:00 - 12:00
Details
Reasons for Optimism: Cities’ action
on climate and health
Speaker
Multiple speakers
Location
UK Pavilion
Date & Time
4th December 2023
19:30 - 23:00
Details
Fin-Erth+ MSCI Women in Climate Dinner
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin
Location
Soul Kitchen
Date & Time
5th December 2023
15:00 - 16:00
Details
Co-producing Equitable Cities:
Catalysts for Just Climate Action
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin Gareth Morgan
Taina de Paula
Location
Resilience Hub
Date & Time
6th December 2023
8:30 - 10:30
Details
Uniting and Energizing Cities
for a Resilient Future
Speaker
Multiple speakers
Location
Date & Time
6th December 2023
9:30 - 12:30
Details
Ministerial Meeting on Urbanization
and Climate Change
Speaker
Multiple speakers
Location
Plenary 2 –
Al Ghafat
Date & Time
6th December 2023
13:30 - 14:30
Details
Climate, Housing and Health:
How to Build Inclusive and
Equitable Urban Resilience.
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin,
Dr. Folayinka Dania
Location
Resilience Hub
Date & Time
6th December 2023 15:30 - 16:30
Details
Multilevel Roundtable on Urban Water Resilience
Speaker
Gareth Morgan,
Ahmed Aboutaleb
Taina de Paula
Location
Presidency Roundtable,
Blue Zone
Date & Time
6th December 2023
17:30 - 18:30
Details
Launch of Sharm El-Sheikh
Adaptation Agenda Working Group
on Urban Water Resilience
Speaker
Katrin Bruebach
Location
Water Pavilion
Date & Time
6th December 2023
18:00 - 22:00
Details
Justified | Aligning a fair transition with sustainable development ambitions
Speaker
Lauren Sorkin
Location
SEE Institute
Date & Time
7th December 2023
9:00 - 18:00
Details
World Climate Action Summit -
Investment COP
Speaker
Multiple speakers
Location
Conorad
Date & Time
7th December 2023
15.00 - 18.00
Details
Climate Action Every Day
Speaker
Multiple speakers
Location
Olea Restaurant
Date & Time
8th December 2023
15:30-16:30
Details
Securing the Global Food Supply Chain
Speaker
Dr. Folayinka Dania
Location
-
Date & Time
9th December 2023
15:00 - 16:30
Details
Extreme conditions and Resilient
Cities: How are urban centers adapting?
Speaker
Katrin Bruebach
Location
Green Zone
Date & Time
10th December 2023
10:00 - 13:30
Details
Challenges and opportunities for addressing the dimensions of food security
Speaker
Roos Meilink
Location
Spanish Government Pavilion
Date & Time
10th December 2023
11:30 - 13:30
Details
Accelerating Urban Resilience:
Innovative Finance for Urban Water Utilities
Speaker
Katrin Bruebach
Location
Presidency RoundtablePresidency Roundtable