[UNDRR-CCFLA-MCR2030 Webinar] Investing in Urban Climate Resilience: From Project Preparation to Implementation

Time: 09:00 London | 17:00 Incheon
Date: 22 May 2025 (Thursday)
Event Language: English

Description

Cities face many critical challenges in accessing financial resources for adaptation and resilience projects, including for disaster response and preparedness. Among these are challenges with the capacity of cities to develop investible adaptation and resilience projects and implement technical solutions to climate hazards.

This one-hour webinar aims to provide attendees with an understanding of the landscape of urban climate finance, introduce the project preparation process, and share examples of successful implementation of adaptation and resilience actions in global cities. The session will also showcase tools available by the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA) and its members that city and subnational governments can use to enhance their project preparation capacity and develop investible projects to enhance their resilience to climate hazards and disasters. 

Hosted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Global Education and Training Institute (UNDRR GETI), the webinar is open to local government officials and relevant stakeholders, especially those responsible for disaster and climate actions and seeking next steps towards accessing finance for implementation.
 

Guest Speakers:

• Kristiina Yang, Manager, CCFLA
• Alastair Mayes, Program Associate, CCFLA

Organizers:

• Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA)
• United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Global Education and Training Institute (UNDRR GETI)
• Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)
   

About the organizers

Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA)

CCFLA is the main multi-level and multi-stakeholder coalition aimed at closing the investment gap for urban subnational climate projects and infrastructure worldwide, launched at the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Summit in September 2014 and renewed at the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Summit in September 2019. CCFLA provides a platform to convene and exchange knowledge among all relevant actors dedicated to urban development, climate action, and/or financing.

CCFLA’s 80+ members include public and private finance institutions, national governments, international organizations, NGOs, research groups, UN organizations, and city and regional networks that represent most of the world’s largest cities. CCFLA works across several key thematic areas including tracking urban climate finance, project preparation, urban adaptation and resilience finance, private sector mobilization, and public sector and enabling environments. 
The CCFLA Secretariat is hosted by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI). 

For more information: https://citiesclimatefinance.org

UNDRR Global Education and Training Institute (UNDRR GETI)

UNDRR GETI was established in 2010 to develop a new cadre of professionals in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation to build disaster resilient societies. GETI has a global mandate to provide capacity building support to mainstream disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation into sustainable development; convene and support inter-city learning to strengthen resilience (Making Cities Resilient); and to provide capacity building and best practice sharing support to national training institutions working on resilience issues. Based in Incheon, the Republic of Korea, UNDRR GETI is also the global secretariat of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030). 

For more information: https://www.undrr.org/about-undrr-where-we-work/incheon

Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030)

The Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) is a unique cross-stakeholder initiative for improving local resilience through advocacy, sharing knowledge and experiences, establishing mutually reinforcing city-to-city learning networks, injecting technical expertise, connecting multiple layers of government and building partnerships.  Through delivering a clear 3-stage roadmap to urban resilience, providing tools, access to knowledge, monitoring and reporting tools. MCR2030 will support cities on their journey to reduce risk and build resilience. MCR2030 aims to ensure cities become inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030, contributing directly to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”, and other global frameworks including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Paris Agreement and the New Urban Agenda.  

For more information: https://mcr2030.undrr.org