Multilevel Action for Community-Led Climate Resilience in Informal Settlements

The document asserts that informal settlements, which house over a billion people, are critically exposed to climate change yet largely excluded from climate planning and finance. It advocates for the meaningful participation of these communities in urban development and calls for a redirection of climate finance to reach the urban poor to avoid deepening vulnerabilities and carbon lock-in.

• Informal settlements are home to more than one billion people and face extreme exposure to climate change impacts, yet they are frequently excluded from climate funding and planning. Specifically, only 3.5 percent of global climate finance has reached the urban poor over the last twenty years.
• To ensure climate action is effective and just, the transformation of informal settlements must be embedded in climate and urban development strategies. This includes prioritizing municipal infrastructure for neglected areas, reducing carbon lock-in, and ensuring vertical and horizontal coordination of government actions.

APA

World Resources Institute (2017). Multilevel Action for Community-Led Climate Resilience in Informal Settlements. https://www.wri.org/research/multilevel-action-community-led-climate-resilience-informal-settlements

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Multilevel Action for Community-Led Climate Resilience in Informal Settlements. 2017. https://www.wri.org/research/multilevel-action-community-led-climate-resilience-informal-settlements.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitute2017multilevel, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Multilevel Action for Community-Led Climate Resilience in Informal Settlements}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, year = {2017}, month = oct, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/multilevel-action-community-led-climate-resilience-informal-settlements}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }