Theme 1: Urban Resilience

Given the climate crisis and its expected impacts in the coming decades, it is essential to develop reflections, actions and solid urban mechanisms to identify and anticipate the risks that may affect human settlements and natural environments. To face these situations, plans, programs, projects, and initiatives must focus on foreseeing and action measures towards resilience to guarantee a better future. Preference will be given to proposals with the following approaches: 

1. Community capacity building: empowering communities through environmental education and awareness and strengthening local systems to build capacity to prepare for and respond to climate crises based on good community resilience practices against interconnected risks. 

2. Adaptation and anticipation: creating flexible urban systems with infrastructure and societies capable of resisting and anticipating disasters, as well as developing advanced technologies to monitor and manage multiple risks. 

3. Impact mitigation: implementing policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy, sustainable resource management, and developing mitigation projects.  

4. Transformation and conservation: integrating social, economic, political, environmental and cultural sustainability aspects in planning and territorial management through the promotion of projects that seek to transform deteriorated territories into green and healthy environments and the conservation of natural resources.  

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