Satellite event: Climate-Resilient and Inclusive Cities

Europe's Cities and Fast-Changing Climate Reality

Human-induced climate change is making Europe the fastest-warming continent, with cities on the front lines. Housing over half the world’s population, cities bear the brunt of climate impacts as congestion, dense built environments, and concentrated energy use trap and amplify temperatures.

The Challenge of Coherence

Climate change will impact our daily lives by cascading through health, food, water, energy, and infrastructure systems, as well as overall well-being—especially for the most vulnerable. Yet cities have the potential to transform the risk of deepening inequities into coherent and inclusive action for resilient communities.

Join our Conversation Café to explore the five steps to bridge awareness to inclusive action and to build a climate-focused community of practice. 

When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.

Ilya Prigogine

In this 60-minute conversational café, participants will develop a multi-systemic and multi-stakeholder perspective on climate change impacts, as well as community-centered mitigation and adaptation responses.

The session focuses on inclusive climate actions to build urban resilience, emphasizing:

• Cities as Climate Actors: The pivotal role of urban centers in systemic resilience and adaptation.
• Gender Equity: A key factor in scaling up climate action.
• People-Centric Solutions: Ensuring equitable access to resources for resilience.
• Diverse Vulnerabilities and Exposures: Tailoring communication across channels, timing, and language for enhanced outreach.
• Bridging Knowledge to Action: Multisolving for community-centered, intersystemic resilience.
• Building a Community of Practice: Fostering transformational leadership and adaptation to empower cities in building resilience and social cohesion.