COP26 - Urban Resilience and the NDCs

Nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are at the heart of the Paris Agreement and the achievement of its long-term goals. NDCs embody efforts by each country to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change. 

The urban resilience practice has been developing for the last decade globally, through tools, processes, and practices. Cities around the world have embraced urban resilience to understand, plan, and act to face complexity. And yet, many questions remain as to how these approaches truly equip cities to deal with the ultimate challenge of climate change.

How should the urban resilience practice evolve to help unlock the full potential of the NDCs?

This event will take stock of the strengths of the urban resilience practice as well of what needs to evolve to indeed contribute to unlocking the full potential of the urban action in the NDCs, in the current and the next cycles.

Co-hosts:

• Arup
• UN-Habitat
• University of Southern Denmark 
• Resilient Cities Network
• Cities Alliance

This is a hybrid event. To join online register here. To attend in person a pass for COP26 Blue Zone is required.