The session aims at discussing and understanding challenges and opportunities for building capacities for urban resilience transition; responding to the Cities-IPCC call for fostering dialogue between practitioners, policy makers and researchers; to develop and promote peer-to-peer learning across regions, sectors and disciplines.
The session will report the results of the first edition of the BLOXHUB Summer School on Urban Resilience that brought together 26 practitioners, policy makers and researchers and 30 lecturers from 30 countries, in Copenhagen in September 2019.
The session is ultimately aiming at expanding the collaboration for developing capacity building activities able to support an ambitious and timely transition of cities toward resilience, through systemic actions able to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation.
The session is be instrumental to understand and respond to capacity building needs on urban resilience, having an impact in raising ambitions and taking urgent actions for promoting the resilient transition of cities, through evidence-based decision making and integrated actions, coupling climate adaptation and mitigation, both in the global south and in the global north.
COORDINATOR
Nicola Tollin (SDU)
LANGUAGE
English
