Building systemic climate resilience in cities
Climate shocks such as extreme floods and storms, droughts and heatwaves have complex,
inter-connected and far-reaching consequences across multiple policy sectors and systems.
Shocks in other systems, such as financial or health crises, can, in turn, affect
climate challenges. Applying a systems approach to climate change helps policymakers
understand linkages between issues that are treated separately and propose cross-sectoral,
multi-disciplinary solutions in cities. This paper proposes a four-pronged policy
framework to disentangle the different elements of economic, social, environmental,
and other systems operating in cities, maximise co-benefits and manage trade-offs
across systems, and build systemic climate resilience in cities. It summarises the
contribution of the Working Party on Urban Policy and the Regional Development Policy
Committee to the 2021-2022 OECD Horizontal Project on “Building Climate and Economic
Resilience in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy”.
Available from October 30, 2023
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