The UNDRR tool assesses how resilient a city’s food systems are, considering that they are essential to face emergencies and ensure the continuous availability of safe and healthy food.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
The 11 municipalities committed to finalise the completion of each tool by the end of July, so as to finalise their risk and resilience capacity assessments and then start the formulation of their local risk reduction and resilience plan.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
“Measuring and Planning for Climate Change” is a regional initiative of Mercociudades, co-financed by the Union of Ibero-American Capital Cities (UCCI) and Mercociudades, with technical support from ICLEI and UNDRR – under the MCR2030 initiative.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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 11 participating municipalities received a certification that recognises the completion of Stage A and marks the beginning of Stage B, which opens the process of developing a Resilience Plan for the year 2024.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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.
