Join Making Cities Resilient 2030

Placing cities at the center of resilience to face climate challenges

About MCR 2030

MCR2030 is a global, cross-stakeholder initiative for improving local resilience through advocacy, knowledge sharing, city-to-city networks and connecting multiple layers of government.

The Resilience Roadmap guides cities through sustainable development towards resilience. It helps cities understand where they are on their own resilience journey and provides insight and partnership opportunities to ensure they are safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

A resilient city is a risk-proofed city. By harnessing the potential of sustainable urbanization, we can turn urban risk into opportunity.

Rapid and informal urbanization is seen as a major risk driver. At the same time, with more than 55% of our population living in urban areas, cities are on the front line of both climate impact and climate action.

MCR2030 provides a Resilience Roadmap towards safe and sustainable cities and protects progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals for all.

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The financial benefit of making cities resilient

If we get built environments right, many disasters can be avoided or prevented. This means that a risk-informed approach to the development, construction and maintenance of critical infrastructure is essential to ensure that it continues to function during and after a disaster, and the economy can keep turning.

We need to invest an additional US$90 trillion in infrastructure by 2040. The additional dollars needed to make new infrastructure assets and systems resilient to climate change and disaster should not be seen as a cost, but as a way to save thousands of lives when hazards occur, a way to save billions of dollars in post-disaster reconstruction, and a foundation for securing gains in many areas of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The way cities are built can either contribute to or hinder efforts to combat the climate emergency. As social, economic and cultural hubs, we need to ensure that cities are resilient and avoid creating new risk.

Let your city inspire the world!

Providing services for communities, protecting citizens and building better places to live, work and do business are the core priorities of local and regional governments everywhere. This way, we invite you to share your knowledge and learn from other experience that aims to create safe, inclusive, resilient and sustainable cities.

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Targets

Challenge in countries

Challenge now running in these countries

  • Local governments (cities, towns)
  • Subnational governments (states, regions)