Dear MCR2030 local government and municipality
representatives,
As the first year of Making Cities Resilient 2030 draws to a
close it is very encouraging to see such progress from cities and districts all
over the world in understanding, communicating and managing their climate and
disaster risk more effectively.
MCR2030 already has nearly 630 member local governments
covering a population of almost 440 million. We also have seen a number of
Resilience Hubs emerge. These are municipalities committed not only to
protecting their own citizens and city’s infrastructure systems and assets but
inspiring and supporting other local governments to move do the same.
Local governments are on the
‘frontline of opportunity’ in this era of the Climate Emergency. It is at the
municipality level that the biggest dividend in avoided future disaster losses
can be reaped.
The evidence is clear: those
cities that invest to better understand, communicate, and manage their climate
and disaster risk protect the lives and livelihoods of their citizens as well
as their local infrastructure systems and assets.
With more than 90% of all
disasters now related to climate change and extreme weather events, inaction
will only escalate risk and losses. Climate change is generating more powerful
storms, exacerbating coastal flooding, causing more deadly heatwaves, and
prompting greater water shortages and more protracted drought. It is amplifying
disaster losses, both in terms of human lives and livelihoods as well as the
overall economy. And these losses are increasingly concentrated in urban areas.
Local leadership and capacity to
better understand, communicate, and manage this increasing climate and disaster
risk is a huge opportunity to invest in a resilient future; one where citizens
continue to be safe and economically active; their homes remain dry; roads stay
clear; bridges remain standing; power and water supplies keep working; and
schools and hospitals stay open.
Local governments that do now in
terms of climate and disaster resilience, the less they will suffer – and the
less they will pay – in the future.
Reducing the impact of disasters:
keeps people out of poverty; protects hard-earned local development gains; and
enables municipalities to become more inclusive, safe, resilient, and
sustainable.
In 2022, MCR2030 is committed to supporting your
municipality to continue its progress along the Resilience Roadmap with
increased and easier access to support, tools and services to help your local
government along that journey.
For latest news on the MCR2030 website, please visit here: https://mcr2030.undrr.org/mcr-latest-news
To access all the resources available on the MCR203 website,
please visit here: https://mcr2030.undrr.org/
And for those active on LinkedIn please visit the MCR2030
page
Best wishes to all our member local governments and service
providers for a resilient and safe 2022!
United
Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Office
for Northeast Asia & Global Education and Training Institute
4F,
G-Tower, 175 Art Center Daero, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 22004, Republic of Korea
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