Sub-national perspectives
The sub-national government representatives told us a number of things. Firstly and fundamentally, proactive and pre-emptive resilience and adaptation interventions are still not being given the investment they require, compared with more reactive disaster response measures that are therefore more likely to be required and which cost societies and economies more in the long term.
True resilience requires an inclusive ‘whole of society approach at COP28, we continued our resilience dialogue with sub-national governments – attempting to coalesce around a shared, holistic understanding of resilience, identifying data gaps, and fostering collaboration to fill them.
Lloyd’s Register Foundation is Climate Group’s Resilience Series Partner for 2023, and co-produced the ‘Bridging Perspectives: Sub-national insights on climate resilience in a fast-changing reality’ session at the General Assembly at COP28 on 3 December.