Cities across the globe, particularly those with urban poor communities, face long-term challenges in ensuring the wellbeing of their inhabitants. These challenges are partly a result of direct and indirect impacts of climate change and are often compounded by pre-existing vulnerability. The management of climate change risks is critical for thriving of urban areas. Based on this factor, a concept of Urban Climate Change Resilience (UCCR) has been adopted. Urban resilience is the capacity of cities to function, so that the people living and working in cities—particularly the poor and vulnerable—survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter.

PCC advises governments to incorporate climate change resilience in urban policies and plans and to develop well-structured climate change resilience infrastructural projects. PCC strengthens their institutional capacity, raises awareness among communities regarding climate change and urban resilience, and shares its technical knowledge for sustaining climate- change resilient cities.

We assess climate change scenarios with a particular focus on current and future vulnerabilities; identify various physical and non-physical interventions required to effectively and sustainably adapt to climate change impacts; use multiple climate modelling tools; do climate change risk assessment and vulnerability assessment of the cities as a whole. For addressing the climate related risks and identified vulnerabilities, we formulate list of possible adaption actions / actionable recommendations to strengthen urban climate resilience of urban infrastructure and services; and also recommend Climate resilient / disaster risk management strategy to city governments.