The Urban Climate Resilience practice area represents the intersection between WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities and World Resources Institute’s Climate Resilience Practice. We work with cities to identify their climate risks and vulnerabilities, and we help leaders and citizens take action to make their cities more resilient.

Building resilience to climate change is complex, particularly for rapidly growing cities. The impacts of climate change vary greatly among different cities due to physical factors like local geography and environment as well as a host of social, political, and economic factors, rooted in systemic inequalities.

Despite these challenges, cities around the globe have reached a tipping point, and resilience is solidly on many of their agendas. We collaborate with a range of stakeholders at multiple scales in cities across the world to identify influential avenues within the following t categories:

• Developing innovative ways for cities to build resilience
• Helping cities measure and track community and individual resilience.
• Integrating resilience into city master plans and development plans
• Integrating resilience into sector-specific plans or projects