Urban Adaptation

A 15 minute speech

follador@alsocabra.comMarco Follador

Cities have to play a leading role in addressing climate change impacts

Soaring Urbanization trends

Cities concentrate important assets

Built assets (infrastructures)

Economic activities

And vulnerable communities

“The vast majority of those assets, and assets everywhere in this country, are designed to withstand climate events of the past, not climate events of the future.” (Swiss Re America)

Cities have been planed without future climate extremes

Cities will be highly impacted

What can we do as quickly as possible toavoid potentiallosses as damages?

Big problems = Big Opportunities

Funding

Governmentalsources (Eufunding LIFE,H2020,...), localbudgets...

Banks/financialinstitutionprovides loans orguarantees

Private sectors/greenbonds/real estatedevelopers/foundations

Risk of INACTION

Lack of vertical/horizontal governance

Lack of political commitment

Lack of knowledge

Lack of $$

Wrong allocation of $$ to reactive approaches (disaster management…)

Covenant of Mayors for Energy and Climate

Thank you!!

…where everything seems nearlyhopeless until the end, and thensuddenly, many times against allhope, the super-heroes save theday….

…Or maybe we should just listen to thescientists and climate practitioners a lot more

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