Yucatán capital Mérida becomes fourth city to join climate insurance program

Photo: Renán Barrera (left), Mayor of Mérida, Mexico, and Edgar Villaseñor Franco, ICLEI Director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (MECS), after signing the letter of intent to join the Urban Infrastructure Insurance Facility project. Mérida, Mexico, capital of the Yucatán Peninsula, became the fourth pilot city to express interest in joining the Urban 

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F3: No Data, No Assessment

Let’s create a new indicator: the number of smart phone pictures taken in a session could tell us how interesting the slides are. This session on risk and vulnerability assessment tools ranked very highly. The facilitator of the session, Nico Tillie (Vice President of the World Council on City Data), gave a brief introduction to 

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D2: Juggling Numbers and Intensive Debates: How to Select Appropriate Adaptation Measures

This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Feasibility gets 10 points, vulnerable population and ecosystem conservation 8, and evaluation and feedback 5: this was the outcome of a 15 minutes debate, which − in reality − would probably have lasted 

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