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
Manchester Briefing #34 – Cities for a Resilient Recovery: International Lessons on Recovery from COVID-19
This month, we consider how social innovation for emergency response, transformation towards hybrid working and addressing core humanitarian issues can play a key role in the response and recovery from COVID-19 ... 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
Catalyzing City Resilience Solutions
R-Cities is partnering with Citi Foundation to support a cohort of cities in Asia Pacific to better source innovative urban resilience solutions from their local private sector, particularly SMEs that have been severely affected by the pandemic ... View More
Resilient Cities Action Package (ReCAP)
Around the world, cities are fighting the Covid-19 pandemic against a backdrop of multiple shocks, stresses, and emerging vulnerabilities, while striving to put equity, economy, and climate action at the centre of their recovery approaches ... 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
Resilient Energy and Mobility Transition Program
Cities have a central role to play in driving the energy transition and contributing to the global effort to tackle climate change. There is an incredible opportunity for the public and private sectors to collaborate to navigate the energy transition in an effective, efficient manner that delivers results ... 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
Manchester Briefing #33 – Cities for a Resilient Recovery: International Lessons on Recovery from COVID-19
This week, we consider how accelerating resilient infrastructure, prioritizing a green recovery and celebrating volunteer efforts can play a key role in the response and recovery from COVID-19 ... 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
