Episode 5 - Climate resilience

This episode discusses the challenges and opportunities of implementing climate resilience and adaptation measures in secondary cities. These cities often operate under limited resources and with financial constraints. The focus of the episode is on Sub-Saharan Africa and India. Cities in the region are fast growing and face severe consequences resulting from climate change and extreme weather events. Many of these climate-related risks are even more acute in secondary cities, which are often overlooked on the national and global scale. Here poor planning and underinvestment intersect with lower incomes to reduce resilience. In the episode we explore how secondary cities can balance the need for rapid climate action with the need to ensure social equity and economic development in their policy implementation. We also explore the importance of city-to-city partnerships and the opportunities arising from programmes such the Global Covenant of Mayors which support capacity building in secondary cities, especially in terms of access to climate finance and infrastructure development. Please note, the views expressed by the guests in this podcast are personal only.