IncluCITY 4: Climate resilience and innovation for inclusive cities

Our cities are transforming at an unprecedented rate. By 2050, 70% of the global population will live in urban areas, but rapid growth brings critical challenges: climate impacts, rising informal settlements, and persistent barriers to essential services.

In response, the Global Disability Innovation Hub has launched the report, Delivering Inclusive Design in Cities: A Global Action Report, offering practical recommendations for policymakers, planners, and advocates to enhance urban accessibility and inclusion.

Building on four years of research from the UK International Development-funded #AT2030Programme, the report draws insights from six diverse cities: Varanasi (India), Surakarta (Indonesia), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), Nairobi (Kenya), Freetown (Sierra Leone), and Medellín (Colombia). Participatory workshops with local communities have captured authentic insights and barriers faced by people with disabilities.

In this final webinar, we will be focusing on climate resilience and innovation for inclusive cities. This project focuses on the need and opportunities for disability inclusion within the climate adaptation, mitigation, resilience, and innovation narratives and actions. It situates inclusive cities within the larger just transition ambition.
 

Join our Experts

• Dr Emma Geen: Emma Geen uses her lived experience as a disabled woman with her background in climate activism to advocate for the community of disabled people in climate work. She is the climate and disability programme associate for the Bristol Climate and Nature Partnership, coproduced the world's first community climate action plan by and for disabled people, and is an advisor on the Sensing Climate research project at the University of Exeter.
   
• Vidhya Mohankumar: Architect and urban designer from Chennai, India, with 20 years of experience advancing people-centric cities. Founder of Urban Design Collective, she blends participatory planning, active mobility, and innovative design strategies to reimagine urban futures with sustainability and equity at the core.
   
• Pragya Pradhan: Pragya Pradhan is the Habitat Program Manager at UN-Habitat Nepal. Pragya brings more than 15 years of experience of working in urban and regional planning, inclusion and climate resilience, disaster recovery and heritage conservation sectors. Pragya holds a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Hawaii.  

🗓️ Duration: 1 hour
⏰ Time & Date: 10 am (BST) July 23rd, 2025
🌐 Language: English
♿ Accessibility: Live captioning provided

Above is the PowerPoint presentation ahead of the session.