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…
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…
Five great things about the Resilient Cities Asia Pacific congress
1) The venue: Bangkok, Thailand In the past five years, the Resilient Cities congress has drawn hundreds of participants in…
Voices in the Corridors: If You had Unlimited funds…
Some participants at the first day of Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific shared what their resilience plans would be if they had…
ICLEI ACCCRN Process workbook launched – Guiding local governments in implementing resilience strategies
Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific 2015 Congress witnessed today the launch of the ICLEI ACCCRN Process (IAP) – Building urban climate change…
Cities will lead the fight against climate change at the ICLEI World Congress 2015
Over the last 15-20 years, national governments have been struggling to reach a consensus on the action that is required…