How Cities Are Paying for Climate Resilience

Thursday, 10 October 2019 - 1:15pm

Vanguard municipalities are finding replicable ways to pay for climate resilience investments.

Cities that have begun implementing climate resilience projects have used distinct strategies to to obtain public and private financial resources that pay for large-scale climate-resilience. These strategies amount to an initial approach—"Playbook 1.0"—for deciding who will pay what and how city governments will generate the needed revenue.

Join city leaders, authors of the recent report "How Cities Are Paying for Climate Resilience: Playbook 1.0," and professionals supporting resilience in hundreds of cities around the globe to explore the strategies that reflect the leading-edge of urban climate-resilience financing practices discuss what they foreshadow for other cities and the continuing evolution of the urban leadership for climate-resilience finance.

Panelists include:

Joyce Coffee, LEED AP, is founder and President of Climate Resilience Consulting
John Cleveland, author, of Life After Carbon and President and a founder of the Innovation Network for Communities
Andrew Salkin, COO of 100 Resilient Cities