Unlocking frontline adaptation: Introducing the Resilient Planet Initiative

Session Description

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 include;

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

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

• Namrata Ginoya, Strategic Policy Lead, Global Resilience Partnership

• Joe Muturi, President, Slum Dwellers International

• Suranjana Gupta, Senior Advisor, Huairou Commission

• Sukaina Bharwani, Senior Research Fellow and weADAPT Director, SEI

• Marco Billi, Professor in Climate Governance, Risk and Resilience

Logistical Details;

Date: 24 June 2025

Time: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (BST)

Venue: Bentley Systems, 43rd floor, 6-8 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ