ARISE Symposium: Climate and disaster resilient infrastructure
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About
This symposium will share state-of-the-art trends, tools, lessons learned, and approaches to resilient infrastructure and investment to address the real-world challenge of ensuring disaster and climate resilience.
Background
The bedrock of a resilient society is the strength of its critical infrastructure essential for a healthy society and economy - from telecommunications and transportation to health and water, ensuring systems' structural safety and sustainable design is paramount.
With current climate change fueling the ever-increasing frequency and intensity of disaster events, including at previously unseen time or place such as the recent 2024 Dubai floods, it is also paramount to build risk knowledge, to innovate and to invest in adaptation and resilience in addition to net zero efforts. At present, infrastructure accounts for the vast majority - 88 per cent - of the forecasted global adaptation costs (UNOPS, 2021). Both public and private sectors are needed to join up efforts and ensure resilient infrastructure. The ARISE Private Sector Alliance for Disaster Resilient Societies, established by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, brings together more than 580 companies globally, with 31 national networks already established, including in the UAE. ARISE focus areas include resilient infrastructure in addition to insurance, investment, and SME resilience. ARISE UAE has been at the forefront of innovating for resilience. With focus and partnership in the real estate sector, ARISE UAE has been helping the real estate sector quantify resilience through development and use of the UNDRR facilitated Real Estate Resilience Tool. Its recent use has already resulted in savings and return on resilience investment during the April 2024 Dubai floods.
Target Audience
Private and public sector leaders, particularly those developing or managing the built environment, resilient infrastructure investment, and real estate professionals; ARISE global Board members, Network Leaders, and members; Open to other relevant stakeholders.