By midcentury, rising seas and greater storm surges could force hundreds of millions of people from homes and cost coastal urban areas more than $1 trillion a year. In global virtual teams, students will initiate field research and community-led urban resilience projects that address a real-life problem posed by a city government or community organization.Ĭities are home to more than half the world’s population and already face severe climate change impacts - heatwaves, droughts, monsoons, floods - while also reeling from COVID-19 impacts. Through the initiative, students from CURE and GNAM member universities will learn about urban resilience through a curriculum focused on informal settlements, the urban poor and other marginalized communities. The consortium partners include CURE, GNAM, Global Resilient Cities Network (GRCN), International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Least Developed Countries Universities Consortium on Climate Change (LUCCC), Slum Dwellers International (SDI), and World Resources Institute (WRI). The consortium, a Global Commission on Adaptation initiative, will partner with an initial cohort of 15 universities from 18 time zones to implement urban resilience projects in cities.įocusing on youth leadership, the approach builds on the four-year old Urban Resilience pedagogical program, led by The University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business and delivered by faculty from the Collaborative for Urban Resilience and Effectiveness (CURE) and the Global Network for Advanced Management (GNAM), in collaboration with the Global Resilient Cities Network (formerly the Rockefeller Foundation 100 Resilient Cities Initiative). (September 10, 2020) - A global consortium of universities, cities, community organizations and World Resources Institute launched an initiative to build cities’ capacities to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Global Commission on Adaptation brings together broad coalition of universities, cities and community organizations to help cities build resilience to climate change
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