Resilient Cities Asia Pacific congress calls for action on urban resilience
“People should be at the core of building urban resilience” 13 February 2015, Bangkok, Thailand: Mayors and municipal leaders from…
Durban Adaptation Charter welcomes 16 new signatories
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability’s first Asian-Pacific Resilient Cities Congress (2015) drew to a close today. The closing plenary…
#ResilientCities Asia-Pacific Day 2: Toward pro-poor urban climate resilience
What makes good urban resilience? “Good urban resilience is pro-poor,” says Donovan Storey, Chief of the Sustainable Urban Development Section,…
#ResilientCities Asia-Pacific Day 2: Linking Nexus and Resilience
Two sessions in Day 2 of Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific: 1st Asia-Pacific Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation were devoted to…
New ACCCRN network launched!
Today the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) launched a member-based regional network of national, regional and local practitioners and institutions committed…
Our top 5 tweets of Day 2
Here are our top 5 tweets from today: No relatively #ResilientCities can guarantee to be resilient tomorrow. Resilience is a…
OECD and BMR launch new report on Green Growth in Bangkok
The OECD and Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR) launch the new report “Green Growth in Bangkok, Thailand”. The report discusses policies…
Understanding the linkages between urbanisation, vulnerability and risks
Understanding urban risks is extremely vital in paving the path towards building resilience in cities, especially in the Asia-Pacific region…
Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific 2015 opens; plenary affirms cities’ role at ‘frontline’ of building resilience
The Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific 2015: 1st Asia-Pacific Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation opened in plenary today as speakers…