LEARNING LAB: MCR 2030 Workshop: Tools to support locality planning for climate resilience

Cities are at the frontline of the current climate crisis, being both the main greenhouse gas emitters and sites of increasing climate-related disasters. While the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 recognizes the importance of including climate actions into disaster risk reduction policies, national and local DRR strategies can still lack a systematic integration of mitigation and adaptation measures.

The MCR2030 Learning Lab: “New tools to support climate resilience planning at the local level” seeks to contribute to achieving the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Priority 2: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk, by helping cities to systematize the integration of climate and DRR actions. It also links directly to SDG's 11 & 13 (targets 11.a, 11.b, 11.5, 11.6, 13.1, 13.3, 13.a and 13.b).

This Lab is an opportunity to increase cities' awareness and capacities on how to integrate climate actions and DRR into common strategies and plans. To support cities in achieving this task, CAF and UNDRR, under the Making Cities Resilient 2030 initiative, introduce a new tool - the "Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities: Climate Resilience Addendum", which will provide operational insights on how to mainstream and strengthen the integration of climate action in the building of more resilient cities. 

The discussions in this lab will serve to identify challenges and opportunities for local governments to plan and implement climate resilience actions. Likewise, it will become a space for knowledge exchange that will enable the participants to learn -and share- inspiring practices from the region.