Resilience through risk prevention and management and environmental sustainability

This issue paper is one of six developed by the Communitas Coalition for Sustainable Cities and Regions in the New UN Development Agenda to address key themes concerning the critical role of city and regions in advancing sustainable development. It explores resilience through risk reduction and management and environmental sustainability, identifiying a set of potential targets for consideration within an urban Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and providing a brief discussion of the rationale for the targets and links with other potential SDGs. Drawing on the experience of cities and regions in both developed and developing countries, it suggests 9 targets for consideration within a stand-alone urban SDG and as part of sector-based SDGs.