Urban Climate Change Resilience Partnership

Urban Climate Change Resilience Partnership THE PROBLEM PERCENTAGE OF ASIA'S POPULACE OVER 70% LIVING IN URBAN AREAS of the region's GDP is derived from CITIES 55% of developing Asia's population of more than 3.7 billion people is expected to be living in cities by 2030 The bulk of the expected urban expansion is predicted to take place in medium-sized cities. 300million to 410 million estimated increase in Asian urban dwellers at risk of coastal flooding by 2025. In inland areas, the number of people at risk will rise from 245million to 341 million by 2025. 1970-2010: ANNUAL COST OF DISASTERS disaster-related deaths in 1.7 million the Asia- Pacific Region $53.8 billion WHAT WE ARE DOING TO SOLVE IT A new fund to scale up urban climate change resilience in 25 medium sized cites in Asia will be provided by the UK Department for International Development and the Rockefeller UKaid Foundation. ADB will administer the Fund. Rockefeller Foundation ADB Innovation for the Next 10O Years from the British people The program aims to leverage about The program's goals include the roll out of about There is $145 %241B infrastructure 25 projects million of grant funding available and other resilience measures to protect in investments from public, private and municipal sources around 1 million poor and another 1 million vulnerable people in the target cities by 2021 INITIAL FOCUS WILL BE GIVEN TO SIX ASIAN COUNTRIES: BANGLADESH INDIA INDONESIA PAKISTAN PHILIPPINES VIET NAM DESIRED RESULTS BY 2021 2.2million poor people (half of them women) will be protected Source: - ADB (2013) Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future - Fast Facts: Vulnerable Cities - Waking Up to the need fo Urban Disaster Risk Management http://www.adb.org/features/fast-facts-vulnerable-cities-waking-need-urban-disaster-risk-management ADB Asian Development Bank FIGHTING POVERTY IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC wwW.ADB.ORG