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Infrastructure for Urban Resilience: Integrating Gray and Nature-based Solutions

25 February 2021
Kerrie Burge discussed the role that nature-based solutions (NbS) play in making urban infrastructure not only resilient but also inclusive and sustainable.

UCCRTF: Economics of Urban Resilience

25 February 2021
Matt Savage talked about measuring the benefits of investing in urban infrastructure resilience. He used as case UCCRTF’s work on examining the economics of urban resilience, which aims to build a sound business case drawn from country and local- level studies.

How Governments Can Use Tax Policy to Speed Pandemic Recovery

25 February 2021
Governments worldwide have responded to the COVID-19 crisis by ramping up public spending and rolling out emergency fiscal response measures in an effort to bolster healthcare systems, strengthen social protection, and boost the economy. By November 2020, more than $25 trillion in financial support…

Business Unusual for Resilient Urban Infrastructure

21 February 2021

Can cities prevent the next pandemic? Breaking down the barriers to achieving healthy cities

19 February 2021

Water-Energy-Food NEXUS, Water Accounting and IWRM

16 February 2021
Jonathan Lautze presented an overview of innovative approaches and tools that advance water security and climate resilience.

Water Accounting: Assessing Water Use and Availability for Allocation

16 February 2021
Lisa-Maria Rebelo discussed how water accounting approaches could enhance multisectoral benefits.

Turning from risk to resilience: How the IWMI's innovations and emerging solutions can help investors?

12 February 2021
Giriraj Amarnath discussed ways to build up resilience through tested water solutions, featuring perspectives from IWMI

Water at the center of climate risk

11 February 2021
Richard Betts highlighted that the future of water is uncertain, which poses a major challenge for adaptation. In one projection, he notes that many countries in Asia could be greatly affected by river flooding, due to projected rainfall and the sheer density of the population.

Centrality of water in adaptation: Early results from a meta-review

11 February 2021
Aditi Mukherji shared how they conducted a 6-month study of 1800+ peer-reviewed documents on adaptation (post-2014). Of these, about 82% are about water, and particularly water adaptation responses on agriculture. But, majority are mostly incremental and not transformational.