Climate resilience is generally understood as a response to survive, adapt, and transform to the disturbances in various urban and rural areas due to climate change. Strategic steps in realizing climate resilience need to be optimized with various efforts through the participation of various parties, especially the community, as the main party is directly affected. […]

Rechanneling the City is a design concept to improve water management in areas with relatively dense population and buildings through optimization the function of water infrastructure in urban areas. The functional of water infrastructure is maximizing through increasing additional capacity for storage, infiltration and regulation of water flow. Improvements in water infrastructure expected to improve […]

Climate change has posed a bigger challenge to the development of Indonesian cities and increased social and economic vulnerability for communities. Higher rainfall intensity, sea-level rise, storm surges, slowly give losses to the cities and its people: loss of livelihoods for coastal communities due to tides and abrasion, damage to houses and residential infrastructure and […]

Climate change has been recognizing as one of the main issues in creating sustainable development. Climate change is the 13th goal of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which calls for action at the national level to tackle climate change and its impacts. The impact has felt by the world’s population, including the increase in the incidence […]

Cities are key players in the global movement to address the threats posed by climate change. They invest in climate-resilient infrastructure, information management systems, and risk-reduction programs. But poor urban residents who live in risk-prone areas are often left out of the planning and implementation process, leaving them more vulnerable to extreme climate-related events.  The […]

City Resilience Index (CRI) is a new method to understand the resilience of a city. CRI was organized through a fairly long process, approximately three years, considering entering various cities throughout the world. This tool is well designed, and cities in the world are expected to be able to use it as a tool for […]

Increased concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are caused by various human activities that impacted on global warming and climate change. GHGs are gases in the atmosphere which cause the greenhouse effect. Climate change has become a development challenge both locally and globally. Indonesia accepts the double consequences of climate change because not only affected by […]

Building community preparedness of floods and landslides is an effort to reduce the impact that might be caused by floods and landslides. These activities are generally carried out in each city or district, so the policies implemented can different, depending on the characteristics of the region and the community in the city or district. TRANSFORM […]

Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction document prepared by community elements represented by the Village, PKK, Karang Taruna and community leaders. This document preparation activity was facilitated by the Initiative for Urban Climate Change and Environment (IUCCE) and Mercy Corps Indonesia (MCI) through the GRP-TRANSFORM1 Program and supported by related agencies such as the Semarang Regency Environmental […]