This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. The fragile lagoon of Porto-Novo, Benin, which has unique biodiversity, is regularly subjected to flooding. Zinsou Daniel Hounkpevi (Head of Technical Services, Benin) highlighted the extreme flooding of 2010 and the struggle to
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Question: What is your favorite example of adaptation? “I find producing electricity from organic waste in the cities to be a good adaptation strategy. It’s a dual benefit of making the city cleaner
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. The opening panel of the finance forum provided a variety of examples of how to overcome common barriers to financing urban adaptation and resilience. From city case studies to the support tools of
The benefits of urban resilience are becoming well-known to city governments and the international community. But it has also attracted the attention of the private sector. Disasters have an effect on the global market, as Eva Perez (Directora del Centro de Cambio Climático, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) bluntly puts it: Climate change will impact the
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. The message that stuck at this session for participatory governance and multi-stakeholder approaches for resilience building was: “feeling is believing”. We were given an insight into some practical work from four panelist stretching
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