GARP: Urban Resilience Podcast
This GARP podcast episode with Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Chair of the London Climate Resilience Review, tackles Urban Resilience and how our cities must adapt to climate change.
The episode explores:
- how cities are vulnerable to cascading and interconnected risks, which amplify the impacts of climate change.
- how a collaborative approach to learning and building resilience will be critical in the years ahead
- how adaptation and resilience need to be woven through our all our decision making, while paying particular attention to the most vulnerable communities.
Listen to the podcast here
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