Putting people and nature first in pursuit of a resilient world where we don’t just survive climate shocks and stresses, but thrive in spite of them
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Putting people and nature first
The Race to Resilience campaign – the sibling campaign to Race to Zero – is the race to catalyse a step-change in global ambition, to accelerate the investment and implementation of adaptation solutions, and to put people and nature first in pursuit of a resilient world where we do not just survive climate shocks and stresses, but thrive in spite of them.
The Campaign was launched by the UN Climate Action High-level Champions in January 2021 at the Climate Adaptation Summit, alongside the State-driven Adaptation Action Coalition.
The ultimate goal of the Race to Resilience is to increase the resilience of four billion people living in vulnerable communities, in collaboration with partner organisations from around the world, while developing tools to support them in their work. It prioritises the climate risks faced by urban, rural and coastal vulnerable communities and elevates the potential and actions that NSAs( e.g. businesses, cities, regions, finance sector, CSOs, local communities) are already pursuing towards system transformations enhancing resilience. The convening power of the campaign is geared towards increasing the ambition loop by delivering resilience breakthroughs and mobilising and increasing financial flows for resilience.
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Throughout 2021, the High-Level Champions have engaged coalitions and initiatives that are prepared to meet Race to Resilience’s ‘eligibility criteria’.
Our approved Partner Initiatives act as the secretariats through which individual members can join and thus will facilitate the speed at which members can join the Race to Resilience.
To enter the Campaign, Partners first have to Apply. For that, they will have to submit an Expression of Interest – EoI- (pdf format for reference, online form to fill) stating their goals and forms of organisation and governance. The purpose of the EoI is, on the one hand, to explain why the initiative is a good candidate to be part of R2R; and, on the other, to commit to take up R2R’s membership rules and criteria. This includes pledging to engage actively with the campaign across all its phases, as described below. Each application will be reviewed by three experts of the Expert Review Group (ERG) based on the eligibility criteria.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH ADAPTATION AGENDA
The global transformations towards adaptive and resilient development
The Metrics Framework pursues several objectives at once, playing an essential function for both the campaign and the global climate action agenda and resilience communities. The Framework is the cornerstone of the R2R campaign, serving as a guide, for partners and for the HLCs, on how to manage and develop their work. It is composed of two complementary sets of metrics: Quantitative or Magnitude Metrics, which help estimate the size of the impact, fundamentally through the number of beneficiaries reached; and Qualitative or Depth Metrics, which help provide an understanding of how the partners and their members are contributing to increasing resilience of people vulnerable to climate change, by observing which conditions (Resilience Attributes) they are impacting.
PROGRESS
The report reflects on the progress made by the Race to Resilience campaign up until 2023.
The Race to Resilience campaign is making steady progress with 41 partners in 164 countries working to fulfil their commitments. Collectively, they have designed and implemented action plans for protecting the lives and livelihoods of more than 2 billion people most vulnerable to the climate crisis.
GOVERNANCE
The Race to Resilience has three advisory bodies: Technical Secretariat (TS), Expert Review Group (ERG), Methodological Advisory Group (MAG)
COP RESILIENCE HUB
An inclusive virtual and physical space to mobilise action on resilience at COP27 and beyond
SOLUTIONS
Banka BioLoo: The company supporting access to clean sanitation in rural India
Banka BioLoo, partner to Resilience First and Race to Resilience, is on a mission to improve sanitation in rural India by using innovative climate-friendly technology.
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ReverdeC: The initiative aiming to grow 1.5 million trees a year to restore river basins in Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Out of the urgency to protect water resources and increase the resilience of local communities in Columbia, the ReverdeC program was created with the goal of planting ten million trees by 2025.
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Tanzania: Establishing a voluntary carbon market to restore mangroves and support local communities
Race to Resilience partner, ORRAA is working with Tanzanian NGO AquaFarms Organization (AFO) to enhance the resilience of coastal communities around Dar-es-Salaam, by establishing new sustainable sources of income from the rehabilitation of mangrove forests.
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Athens leads fight to counteract extreme heat
Race to Resilience partner, Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance (EHRA), is aiming to support 500 million people worldwide with heat-related resilience solutions by 2030. One of the cities that have joined this effort is Athens, Greece.
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