Lessons from Practice: Toward Climate Change Resilient Cities

World Urban ForumRio de Janeiro, Brazil

23 March 2010

Anna BrownAssociate Director

The Rockefeller Foundation Asia

• Overview of session• The Rockefeller Foundation’s interest in urban

climate change resilience• Overview of the Asian Cities Climate Change

Resilience Network (ACCCRN)• Summary Remarks followed by Q & A

Outline

Changes Happening Now

Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007

Climate change mitigation is

critical….but not enough

Unprecedented Rates of Urbanization

Source: The World Bank

Global Urbanization Trends: 1950 - 2050

affects land and resource use, and social and economic systems

Climate change will hurt cities

Climate change will hurt cities

Poor and vulnerable people face greater risks:

Direct Impacts:

•Increasing frequency + intensity of extreme events

•Changes in disease vectors

•Sea level rise

•Heat waves

•Water availability + quality

2nd Order Impacts:

•Power supply

•Supply of climate sensitive products (food, water, etc.)

•Disruption to industry, commerce, business

•Migration

•Health epidemics

Have fewer resources to cope

with change

Often live in vulnerable places

Asian Cities Climate Change Resilient Network (ACCCRN)

Impact Statement:A diverse range of effective approaches, processes, and practices to build urban climate change resilience that incorporate the priorities of poor and vulnerable communities is demonstrated in ACCCRN cities that generate additional actions by more institutions in current and new places

ACCCRN aims to build climate change resilience in 10 cities in 4 countries in Asia

ACCCRN Phases

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Phase 1

India and Vietnam, with Indonesia starting Phase 2Phase 3

Phase 4 -

Phase 1 City Scoping and Selection• Identify partner citiesPhase 2 City-level engagement and capacity development• Conduct shared learning dialogues (SLDs) with key stakeholders and undertake key studiesPhase 3 Implementation of urban resilience projects• Work with local and international partners to implement interventions identified in Phase 2Phase 4 Replication• Scale-up through networking and shared learning, dissemination of captured knowledge and practice; and leveraging additional funding

Thailand

ACCCRN Phases

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Phase 1

India and Vietnam, with Indonesia starting Phase 2Phase 3

Phase 4 -

Phase 1 City Scoping and Selection• Identify partner citiesPhase 2 City-level engagement and capacity development• Conduct shared learning dialogues (SLDs) with key stakeholders and undertake key studiesPhase 3 Implementation of urban resilience projects• Work with local and international partners to implement interventions identified in Phase 2Phase 4 Replication• Scale-up through networking and shared learning, dissemination of captured knowledge and practice; and leveraging additional funding

Thailand

Key ACCCRN contacts

Anna BrownAssociate DirectorRockefeller Foundation Asiaacccrn@rockfound.org

For more information on ACCCRN please visit http://www.rockfound.org/initiatives/climate/acccrn.shtml