P3: Bridging the Resilience Finance Gap

When it comes to financing urban resilience, there is a clear gap between demand and supply. Comprehensive resilience infrastructure will require $4 trillion per year between 2015 and 2030. However, current spend is around $2 trillion per year, and much of this is fragmented. Cities have ambitious plans and projects, as shown by their collective 

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B1: Informal Settlements: Let the People Be the Solution

What are some principles for working with informal settlements? In the Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific panel B1 on 2 March, experts shared their experiences and found some common lessons. Chawand Luansang of the Asian Coalition for Human Rights (ACHR) spoke of how his organization is working on covering all communities through a city-wide approach. He also 

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A3: Resilient Investment – Targeting is Good, Embedding is Better

As a city, if you want to address resilience, where do you start? At the Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific A3 panel on 2 March, panelists explored the relative merits of different kinds of strategies. One important distinction that emerged concerns targeted and embedded investments. Some risks faced by cities must be addressed directly. For instance, a 

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Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific 2016 Opens with Assessment of “Milestone” 2015

The 2nd Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific congress was officially opened today in Melaka, Malaysia by YB Datuk Abdul Rahman bin Dahlan, the Hon. Minister of Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government, Government of Malaysia. He discussed how the Eleventh Malaysia Plan: 2016-2020, launched by the government in 2015, steers Malaysia towards implementing global frameworks and achieving international targets. 

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Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Program to Explore All Aspects of Urban Resilience

From tomorrow (2 March) the Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific congress (RCAP) in Melaka, Malaysia will welcome participants from across the region to share knowledge on urban resilience. The program for the event makes clear how much is involved in building resilience in cities. Some of the issues are unsurprising. All cities require finance to implement resilience strategies. 

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ICLEI Links: 26 February 2016

City Stories 4 Cities That Are Getting Rid Of All Of Their Garbage Facing Severe Food Shortages, Venezuela Pushes Urban Gardens Seoul City to Provide Free High-speed Wi-Fi in all Public Places Brass-Tacks Urbanism Is the Not-So-Secret Secret to Growing a Healthy City Leveraging A City Budget for Smart Urban Reform Climate Change Stories The 

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Change as Chance: Germany’s Ruhr Metropolitan Region

Historically, many cities were built around heavy industry. The production of steel and textiles was the catalyst for urban growth during the industrial revolution, and through the twentieth century, other kinds of heavy industry fueled the development of major cities around the world. Detroit, for instance, became the center of car manufacturing in the USA, 

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ICLEI Links: 19 February 2016

Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! City Stories Driverless Cars in London, Solar Power in Lisbon: Six European Cities Taking Smart Cities Forward Cyclists in Central London Set ‘to Outnumber Car Drivers’ (VIDEO) Densification Key to Green Cities, Mindsets How Intelligent Data 

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Interview with Iosu Madariaga

On the occasion of the 8th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, Iosu Madariaga, Deputy Minister for Environment and Territorial Policy of the Basque Government, Basque Country, talks about the transformation the Basque Country has experienced over the past years and its potential to be replicated. Madariaga also encourages local governments to attend the 

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ICLEI Links: 12 February 2016

Welcome to the latest edition of ICLEI Links, our roundup of sustainability-related news and commentary from around the web! City Stories São Paulo Is Betting Better Urban Planning Can Solve a Housing Crisis A ‘Night Mayor’ Is Transforming Amsterdam After Dark How Fragile Are Our Cities? How Ljubljana Turned Itself Into Europe’s ‘Green Capital’ Sustainably 

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