BUILDING A RESILIENT FUTURE OUTCOME DOCUMENT

The 'Building a Resilient Future Outcome Document' records the proceedings of a one-day event held on 22 September 2019 in New York City, convened by the Global Resilience Partnership. The event brought together over 500 practitioners to identify actions and partnerships to accelerate climate adaptation and resilience, specifically responding to the UN Climate Action Summit's Call for Action. The document outlines high-level messages, specific commitments from seven thematic action sessions, and a roadmap for building a global movement to protect vulnerable communities from climate-related shocks.

• Participants emphasized that incremental change is no longer sufficient and that a transformation is required to serve the most vulnerable communities, warning that failure to meet these commitments would result in failure to achieve the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• The document identifies food systems as critical leverage points for addressing climate change, requiring transformations focused on planetary health, nutrition, financial inclusion, and inclusivity for youth and gender.
• Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are presented as cost-effective foundations for climate resilience that can simultaneously mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and restore natural ecosystems.
• Investment in Early Warning, Early Action (EWEA) systems is deemed essential to prevent humanitarian costs from rising, as the number of people requiring humanitarian assistance due to climate change is projected to double by 2050.
• Cities are identified as primary areas of risk and opportunity, as nearly 70% of the global population is expected to live in urban areas by 2050, placing the majority of people and infrastructure at risk.
• Climate change is described as a 'threat multiplier' that interacts with existing factors like poverty and weak governance to exacerbate conflict risks, creating a cycle of fragility and poverty.
• The document highlights a significant financing gap for adaptation, noting that private markets for financing adaptation currently do not exist and that investors lack information on available opportunities.
• The report stresses that for resilience building to be successful, local communities must have long-term control over funding and be empowered as agents of change rather than passive participants.
• Specific national achievements are noted, including Bhutan becoming the only carbon negative country in the world with 100% clean energy and a constitutional minimum forest cover of 60%.
• The document warns of severe economic impacts, stating that 100 million people could be pushed into poverty by climate change by 2030, primarily in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, a number that could rise to 720 million by 2050.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2019). BUILDING A RESILIENT FUTURE OUTCOME DOCUMENT. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/building-a-resilient-future-outcome-document_ab-comments.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. BUILDING A RESILIENT FUTURE OUTCOME DOCUMENT. 2019. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/building-a-resilient-future-outcome-document_ab-comments.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2019building, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{BUILDING A RESILIENT FUTURE OUTCOME DOCUMENT}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2019}, month = sep, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/building-a-resilient-future-outcome-document_ab-comments.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }