Chief Of 100 Resilient Cities, A Rockefeller Funded Program, On How Cities Can Tackle Climate Change
Nearly five years after Hurricane Sandy hit New York to devastating effect, America’s most populated city is still rebuilding in some areas — and, with an office of recovery and resiliency and a city-wide strategy — is looking ahead to how best to cope with the next superstorm.
“More and more people around the world are waking up to the fact that something has to be done,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio told an audience of city officials and urban climate experts on Monday. “There are still denialists, but people get it more and more because of their experiences. Your leadership becomes crucial. We tend to be bolder.”
This was the message at the first day of the 100 Resilient Cities Urban Resilience Summit: Cities across the world need to look ahead, as they have an increasingly important role to play in combatting climate change and becoming more resilient to disaster. Many major coastal cities face various risks and effects of climate change and the global urban population continues to grow, with about 60 percent of all people expected to live in cities by 2050.
100 Resilient Cities, a 4-year-old initiative of the Rockefeller Foundation, connects cities worldwide to share lessons . . .