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Mongolia’s capital city Ulaanbaatar and all its 21 Provinces have joined the world’s leading global collaboration to strengthen urban resilience.

Ms. Lalaine Marcos, representative of the Mayor’s Office of Ormoc City, Philippines, urged cities to grasp the opportunity of a more sustainable future through risk-informed decisions on how they plan their social, economic, and environmental development

MCR2030 works with Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean to boost resilience and disaster risk reduction.

UNDRR conducted a two-day training on “Urban Resilience and Making Cities Resilient 2030” in cooperation with the Office of Civil Defense in the Philippines from 19 October 2022.

The strategic location of the city makes it part of one of the most important land corridors of the country, making it one of the main industrial centers of the Coffee Axis of Colombia.

The project consists of a series of plans that, together, seek to raise awareness of disaster risk reduction and climate resilience.

Mexico City has sought in recent years to break this historical cycle of risk creation in order to respond to the current climate crisis.

Two municipalities will be selected this year to receive technical support in the preparation and analysis of their Local Resilience Plan.

On 13 October, Hounslow has announced it has joined Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), a global network of cities and local authorities committed to climate resilience and sustainability.

‘We learnt that climate change is very, very expensive’. This was the candid reflection of the Deputy Mayor of Cologne, Germany, Mr Andreas Wolters as he recalled the havoc of severe flooding in his city 16 months ago.