Resilient Cities Catalyst: An Open Letter from our Founders
Dear Friends,
Today we are launching Resilient Cities Catalyst (RCC), a new non-profit led by six members of the 100RC executive team and made up of urban practitioners and resilience experts with deep experience working in cities around the world.
When we founded 100 Resilient Cities in 2013, we knew that our efforts to help cities fundamentally remake themselves in the face of climate change, rapid urbanization, and globalization would require a decades-long effort.
Although our urban experience gives us much to be excited about, we also saw many examples of cities and their partners approaching issues in siloed, short-term ways.
This effort couldn’t be more critical today. Through decades of combined experience in urban resilience, we have seen the risks and opportunities inherent in the world’s cities first-hand . By 2050, roughly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in urban areas and already nearly 500 million urban residents live in high-risk coastal areas. RCC will partner with cities to ensure that their investments, innovations and partnerships are leveraged in the face of these rapid changes.
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