Unlocking frontline adaptation: Introducing the Resilient Planet Initiative

Unlocking Frontline Adaptation: Introducing the Resilient Planet Initiative

Date: 24 June 2025

Time: 13:30 – 15:00

This session is part of the Resilience Hub’s full day event: Resilience that Delivers: Turning Science into Action and Impact.

In less than five years, the world will reach the deadline set for significant emission reductions outlined in the Paris Agreement. Accelerating locally-led adaptation and resilience has never been more urgent. However, despite progress, many communities still lack access to climate risk data, tested adaptation solutions, and the resources to implement them.

The Resilient Planet Initiative (RPI) responds to this gap by offering an open-access platform that connects frontline communities, policymakers, and innovators with localised climate risk information and opportunities to collaborate.

What to expect

Participants will experience the public launch of the Resilient Planet Initiative! Unlike typical top-down tech platforms, the Resilient Planet Initiative (RPI) was co-designed with grassroots actors and tested in real-world contexts to ensure relevance and usability.

Participants will learn:

• How technology can democratise resilience by making information and solutions discoverable, actionable, and fundable by and for frontline communities

• How the links between climate finance and resilience science can drive impact

Speakers

David Howlett, Senior Advisor & Loss & Damage Lead, Climate Champions Team

Sheela Patel, Founder and Director, SPARC, Global Amnbassador for Race to Resilience

Namrata Ginoya, Strategic Policy Lead, Global Resilience Partnership

Joe Muturi, President, Slum Dwellers International

Mark Harvey, CEO, Resurgence

Suranjana Gupta, Senior Advisor, Huairou Commission

Roberto Spacey Martin, Alignment Lead, Resilient Planet Finance Lab

Sukaina Bharwani, Senior Research Fellow and weADAPT Director, SEI

Marco Billi, Professor in Climate Governance, Risk and Resilience

How to join

You must register for Unlocking frontline adaptation: Introducing the Resilient Planet Initiative. Click “get tickets” to secure your free spot. Please note that you are registering for an in-person event.

Want to join us for the whole day? Register for your ticket!

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