Press release

The city of Venice is recognized as a Resilience Hub for its leadership in cultural heritage protection in DRR.

The MCR2030 Disaster Risk Financing Roundtable brought together over 100 participants to learn about experiences and opportunities for financing local level resilience plans.

Workshop session on “Bridging the Gap in Cross-border Cooperation: Societal Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction” held in Brussels, Belgium.

A webinar was held on 3 October 2023, as part of the MCR2030 initiative, on “Innovating Heat and Wildfire Risk Governance”, bringing together participants from Europe and Central Asia as part of EFDRR Roadmap implementation.

The City of Zagreb and Dubrovnik-Neretva County both recently joined the Making Cities Resilient 2030 network, leading the expansion of Croatia’s MCR2030 engagement

This year’s annual meeting of the Swedish MCR2030 network took place on 13-14 September in Malmö, focusing on climate change adaptation.

Five cities - Ajman (UAE), Doral (US), Makati City (Philippines), Reykjavik (Iceland), and Vaughan (Canada) - have completed ISO 37123 Resilient Cities certification that empowers them to adopt data-driven approaches towards urban resilience.

The Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) global partnership acknowledged Bonn – Germany’s United Nations City – as a Resilience Hub for committing to scale up its own climate emergency response and help other municipalities do the same.

The Portuguese National Platform on DRR’s working group on Resilient Cities met in Loulé, with certificates handed to 51 local governments for their efforts in building local resilience as part of the Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative.

Officials from municipalities in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia gathered in the Province of Potenza for a two-day workshop to exchange best practices on local-level resilience building, as part of Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative.