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URCE Program @ COP28

URCE Program @ COP28

Sharing URCE Program interventions in enhancing urban resilience in Viet Nam and Myanmar at the official side event @COP28
Photo Credits: SDU

The 28th session of the Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) was held from 30 November to 13 December 2023 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As per UNFCCC, COP28 was the biggest of its kind with some 85,000 participants including more than 150 heads of state and representatives of national delegations, civil society, business, Indigenous Peoples, youth, philanthropy, and international organizations.

ADPC partnered with a consortium of international partners led by the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) to conduct an official side event titled “Raising the ambition of climate actions at the urban level: recommendations for policymakers”. During this official side event, URCE Program interventions in enhancing urban resilience in Viet Nam and Myanmar were shared with the global audience. Dr. Senaka Basnayake, Director, Climate Resilience at ADPC underscored the importance of having a comprehensive climate-inclusive risk assessment for better climate action planning. Climate-inclusive risk assessment conducted in the three target cities in Myanmar and Viet Nam under the Urban Resilience to Climate Extremes in Southeast Aasia (URCE) Program took into account the future climate change scenarios to visualize potential extreme scenarios that these cities can experience in the times to come. Based on this assessment, the climate actions were recommended for the cities for enhancing their resilience.

Exchanging experiences from the URCE Program in Southeast Asia at the Side Event in Sri Lanka Pavilion @ COP28 Photo Credits: ADPC
Furthermore, ADPC also partnered with the Sri Lanka Pavilion in conducting a side event, “Sustainable Urban Futures: Taking Climate Risks with Nature-based Solutions”. Mr. Hans Guttman, the Executive Director at ADPC exchanged the experiences from the URCE Program in Southeast Asia at the Side Event in Sri Lanka Pavilion. He elaborated that nature-based solutions can be a climate-smart solution for cities for enhancing their adaptation capacity as such solutions address a wide variety of challenges in the present-day society including Climate Risks by making use of natural processes and ecosystem services. Moreover, he showcased few of the proposed solutions by the URCE Program in My Tho and Nam Dinh cities in Viet Nam.

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