Global workshop on climate change and urban resilience: Cities’ response to disasters and extreme weather events
Yingdong Academic Hall, Beijing Normal University
- English
Time
9:00-17:30, January 16, 2024; 9:00 - 17:00, January 17, 2024 (Beijing time)
About
The Global Workshop on Climate Change and Urban Resilience will examine and discuss such measures that were initiated following extreme climate and disaster events in large cities of eight countries: China, Japan, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Brazil, Turkey, and the Philippines. International experts from these nations will present the extreme events that impacted their cities and the ensuing disaster risk reduction and resilience-building measures, discussing challenges and opportunities in implementing them. The workshop will aim at raising awareness of stakeholders and promoting the development of resilient cities as a strategic pathway and science-based policy tool for disaster risk prevention and mitigation. The knowledge exchanges facilitated through this workshop will contribute to the Report that is being developed on the Experience and Lessons Learned in Cities’ Response to Extreme Events.
The workshop will also:
- Provide a platform to share experiences in responding to extreme events and compound extreme events, as well as cascading and systemic risks.
- Foster international knowledge exchanges on how to enhance urban resilience to prevent and reduce risks of extreme events.
- Address how collaboration among sectors can prevent and mitigate disaster risks and build resilient cities.
- Raise the awareness of the city stakeholders on the urgency and benefits of disaster risk prevention and management and enable them to make progress and drive innovation in the field of urban resilience.
- Promote cross-boundary and multi-sector cooperation and launch the collaboration platform to jointly address the risks of future extreme events through information and data sharing.