| CCFLA expands knowledge and facilitates collaboration on urban adaptation and resilience finance, supporting the development and replication of solutions that build urban resilience, protect lives and safeguard livelihoods. |
Cities are on the front lines of climate change, facing rising temperatures, flooding, extreme weather, and other growing risks. Despite the urgency, most cities lack sufficient financial resources and investment-ready solutions to scale adaptation and resilience efforts.
This gap leaves communities exposed and slows progress toward resilient urban development. This workstream brings together key actors to strengthen financing pathways and accelerate action.
• Facilitate peer-to-peer learning on scalable adaptation and resilience solutions.
• Improve transparency and tracking of urban adaptation and resilience finance.
• Strengthen policy and regulatory environments that support investment.
• Expand pipelines of bankable adaptation and resilience projects, with a focus on equity and risk reduction.
Developing and disseminating blueprints, business models, and policy recommendations to help public and private sector actors understand and act on effective urban adaptation and resilience solutions.
Hosting workshops, events, and Action Group meetings to showcase solutions and explore new approaches to advance urban adaptation and resilience finance – connecting the actors who need to collaborate to make progress.
Engaging in major forums and policy processes to shape discussions on urban adaptation and resilience finance, translating our work into action-oriented recommendations that influence decision-makers worldwide.
During Urban October, the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA) is launching a dedicated campaign to spotlight urban climate projects that have reached bankability and been successfully implemented.
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This scoping paper aims to help shape CCFLA’s new Urban A&R Finance Workstream by (1) identifying key challenges in urban A&R finance, (2) mapping CCFLA members’ current priorities and activities for addressing these obstacles, (3) identifying any remaining gaps in action to address these challenges, and (4) providing recommendations for how the workstream and the broader CCFLA community can effectively address them.
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Cities are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. While the need for urban adaptation is growing, funding remains alarmingly low. This blog from CCFLA reveals why finance isn’t flowing—and what can be done to close the gap.
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As climate risks escalate and climate-related hazards become more frequent and costly, cities ought to increase their focus on ex-ante preparedness and resilience.
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While many cities have begun enacting policies and programs to build resilience towards climate hazards, there are numerous barriers to financing urban adaptation activities.
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