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Resilient Cities 2017
Live updates from Bonn #ResilientCities
As always, the Resilient Cities congress was full of dialogue and debates that bring the global resilience agenda forward.
“We cannot do this alone” - Final thoughts from Resilient Cities 2017

Three days and almost 50 sessions later, Resilient Cities 2017 wraps up with a message of hope and shared responsibility from the 400-strong crowd of participants. The key message: We need to build coalitions and partnerships at all levels to face present and future challenges.

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Hungry for more: Cities are shaping the global food agenda

Cities are teaming up with knowledge-based networks and international organizations to scale up their actions. ICLEI, RUAF and FAO worked with them to shape the cooperation that will best support them. They are poised to raise global ambition, just like they did with climate action.

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A growing menu for the urban food agenda

Once just a budding topic at Resilient Cities, food systems planning has made its way to local and global sustainability agendas. But cities have not waited for global cues. They are already using food policy to address public health, social inclusion, climate change and economic development.

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Join the budding conversation about resilient transport

Resilience is a tricky topic when it comes to urban transport. Global frameworks signal a sustainable, resilient path forward, but is this translating into resilient urban transport systems? Do we know what resilient transport really means? Not exactly. The conversation is just beginning.

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The blue, the green, the city in between

The City of Oslo, Norway is reinventing stormwater management as a response to more frequent and intense precipitation events, while creating spaces that are more open, green and livable. Find out more about the actions they are taking.

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Responding to vulnerability and its root causes

From Cameroon to Jamaica and the Solomon Islands, cities are looking for resilience building strategies in marginalized areas. Their solutions combine education, technology and direct democracy, but beyond this, we need to dig deeper into the root causes of vulnerability.

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Voices from Resilient Cities

“A lot of climate work focuses on direct impacts rather than characteristics that make people susceptible to harm. We need to put human dimensions at the center.” - David Dodman, Director, Human Settlements, IIED
 
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