3. Beyond Bricks: Transforming Infrastructure, Cities and Industries for Climate Resilience

APAN Pre-forum webinar 3: Beyond Bricks: Transforming Infrastructure, Cities and Industries for Climate Resilience This webinar explores how cities in the Asia-Pacific region can harness climate-resilient urban planning, smart technologies, and innovative financing to build adaptive and inclusive urban systems. Emphasis is placed on the built environment as a lever for change—examining technical solutions in housing, transport, energy, and water alongside governance, finance, and spatial planning tools. By centering local voices, system-wide thinking, and cross-sector collaboration, the discussion aims to generate actionable insights on how cities can transition from reactive adaptation to transformative resilience-building. Objectives: Advocate and equip participants with frameworks to institutionalize transformative adaptation in urban policies and investments (shift from reactive adaptation/integrated resilient systems/levers for systematic change) Explore actionable methodologies to design and implement transformative projects in resource-constrained settings (participatory design/low-tech/high impact) Discuss frameworks for multisector collaboration and inclusive implementation (entry points for different actors/community-led adaptation/blended finance mechanism)