Confronting the Resilience Elephant: From Science to Solutions

The Journey Continues

Building on the momentum from London Climate Action Week, this Resilience Hub event at Climate Week NYC 2025 deepens the journey from science to strategy, with a particular focus on the transformative role that targeted, patient and community-informed financial investments could play. At a pivotal moment on the road to COP30, we are convening a high-level community of decision-makers, business leaders, resilience experts and practitioners to align on actionable priorities for adaptation and resilience. Together, we will interrogate the systems we work within - and shape how the Road to Action can help shift them.

Why This Moment Matters

The COP30 Brazilian Presidency has issued a clear call: climate action must be grounded in ethics, inclusion, and evidence. Our full-day program is structured to operationalize that vision - shaping systemic resilience that is just, evidence-based, and accountable. Our program answers that call by translating resilience science into practical strategies that accelerate delivery across six priority axes—including climate finance, infrastructure, energy transition, nature-positive development, food security, and social protection.

Anchored in the Resilience Science Must-Knows, this convening challenges participants to take a hard look at the resilience strategies already in play:

• Are these solutions truly resilient - or are they reinforcing the status quo?
• Can they be scaled or strengthened to meet rising risks?
• Are they unintentionally deepening existing inequities or leaving vulnerable communities with the costs of transformation?

These are the difficult - but necessary - questions we’ll confront together. The Must-Knows provide a system-wide blueprint to help interrogate existing strategies and surface critical edge points where transformation can begin - and where friction must be addressed head-on.

Who This Is For

This is a strategic workspace and coalition-building space for mid-to-senior professionals across sectors shaping real-world adaptation and resilience: from finance to food, infrastructure to health, and across urban and natural ecosystems. Participants are expected to bring insights, engage actively, and help identify the strategic levers that can unlock progress at scale. We expect informed, interactive, and action-oriented engagement.

Energy Around the Room:

• Hands-On Group Sessions: Workshops designed to pressure-test existing strategies against the Resilience Must-Knows and co-create transformative pathways.
• Facilitated Networking Moments: Coffee breaks curated with strategic provocations to encourage meaningful, cross-sectoral conversation.
• Resilience Chef Lunch: Locally-sourced lunch with embedded dialogue prompts to fuel informal exchange and reflection.

Immersive, Reflexive Learning:

• Mini Science Check Plenaries: Short, evidence-grounded presentations connecting resilience science to actionable insights for key sectors and challenges.
• Peer Reflection Circles: Quick, structured flash dialogues to surface field-level wisdom and shift the group’s focus toward levers, unlocks, and system-level solutions.
• Artistic and Storytelling Engagements: Immersive formats to unlock emotional intelligence, challenge cognitive biases, and reframe our understanding of resilience.
• Catalytic Action Boards: A visual, collective sense-making tool for participants to contribute insights or provocations to shape the next stage of the Road to Action.

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