This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Imagine a city in coastal Vietnam, surrounded by low-lying areas and highly affected by upstream hydropower projects. The city wants to conduct a project on water resources, also involving neighboring provinces. It sounds
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Question: If you could make one change in every city tomorrow, what would it be? “I would make sure that city authorities understand how relevant it is for planning and resilience to listen to
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Barack Obama said of the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact that it has become a model not just for the country, but for the world. This success has been mirrored in the Central
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. During Resilient Cities 2015, a range of tools for climate change adaption have been presented. One of those tools is e-learning. In this session, Ralf Osinski (Head of BEW Training Center on Utilities
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. How can we foster knowledge partnerships that serve cities and their communities? This session explored several types of knowledge partnerships, including associations of local governments with climate scientists and research organisations with practitioners;
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Nowadays the most powerful communication channels are television and internet – so why don’t we use them to communicate climate change adaption? A member of the BBC, Pam Vallance, today explained how the
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. Question: Where do you see the social in resilience? “When I think of resilience, I think of the community level. Communities only function well if the social and environmental and economic components
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
This post is part of our live blog series from the Resilient Cities 2015 congress. For more live blogs, please click here. This session began with some information on how the City of Tshwane, South Africa – national winner of the 2014/15 WWF Earth Hour City Challenge – is using innovative ways to achieve green buildings, such as:
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