Speaker Series #14 – Private Sector Engagement In Urban Resilience
The fourteenth edition of the Cities on the Frontline Series delved into the role of Private Sector Engagement in Urban Resilience ... View More
Speaker Series #13 – Building Effective Food Systems for Cities
The thirteenth edition of the Cities on the Frontline Series explored the challenges and opportunities towards developing resilient and equitable urban food systems. In the face of rapid urbanization and climate change, urban policymakers must urgently pursue food policies and investments that ensure steady and sustainable supplies of food products ... View More
Speaker Series #12 – Reclaiming the Value of Play in Cities
In this special Cities on the Frontline Webinar, R-Cities launched a partnership with the Real Play Coalition, Strengthening Urban Resilience Through Play ... View More
Speaker Series #11 – Addressing Urban Heat
This eleventh Cities on the Frontline Webinar called attention on the urgency to address urban heat. With more cities facing record high temperatures and heatwaves increasing in number, it is important that we set an agenda to take collective action now ... View More
Climate Resilient Urban Sanitation – Accelerating the Convergence of Sanitation and Climate Action
This report has been commissioned by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, in collaboration with Resilient Cities Network (R-Cities) to better understand how climate change impacts will affect urban sanitation systems, and what needs to be done to address this ... View More
Speaker Series #10 – Advancing Community Resilience
Joined by special guest hosts, the University of Manchester, the 10th Cities on the Frontline webinar provides three unique perspectives on the importance of building, scaling, and sustaining resilient communities ... View More
Build a resilient, equitable and circular waste management system to address plastic waste in our oceans
It is not news that we have a lot of plastics in our oceans. To be precise close to 150 million tons of plastic in the ocean and 11 million tons added each year ... View More
Speaker Series #09 – Resilient Infrastructure
Resilient infrastructure is an economic opportunity. The ninth Cities on the Frontline webinar dives into how cities, states and private actors can work together to achieve climate-ready and resilient infrastructure ... View More
Speaker Series #08 – Assessing Risk through Data-Driven Decision Making
In this session, panelists highlight the importance of putting people and community at the heart of data driven strategies. The session dives deeply into how practitioners use state-of-the-art hazard monitoring to reduce risk through land-use mapping, zoning and urban design ... View More
Speaker Series #07 – Launch of the Chair’s Agenda
In our special Earth Day session, Mayor Sylvester Turner, Chairman of the Resilient Cities Network Board, launched the R-Cities Chair’s Agenda. This agenda calls for immediate investment in resilient climate-ready infrastructure that is equitable and produces green jobs in cities around the world. The 7th Cities on the Frontline speaker ... View More
Speaker Series #06 – Low Carbon Cities and Real Estate
“An affordable green home is the strongest resilience tool you can provide a person” – Tom Woodward; Climate Lead, Reall. The sixth Cities on the Frontline event of 2021, speakers discussed the importance and urgency of green and low-carbon real estate development ... View More
Speaker Series #05 – One Year of COVID-19: Delivering a Green and Just Recovery
For over a year, cities across the globe have been at the forefront of the COVID-19 response. In our fifth Cities on The Frontline session of 2021, we reflected on the lessons learned since our first session a year ago ... View More
