We’re excited to announce our involvement in COP29 in Baku, where we’ll be participating in numerous events centred on enhancing climate resilience, sustainable infrastructure, and nature-positive engineering. Our activities will showcase innovative approaches and foster discussions on building a resilient and just built environment. 

ICSI is once again excited to be involved with the Resilience Hub. This year, we are a Challenge Co-Lead for the Hub’s 4th Challenge: to build stronger, safer urban communities where everyone can thrive. Through this role we have helped to curate three COP 29 Resilience Hub events, designing the overall narrative and guiding the session co-hosts. In addition, ICSI is co-hosting a session on measuring and assessing resilience.

See below for details on our schedule and opportunities to engage with us throughout COP29:

Events Hosted by ICSI

  • Enhancing Climate and Disaster Resilience of Infrastructure through Technology

📅13 Nov
⏰ 10:00am – 11:30am
📍 CDRI Pavilion, Blue Zone

Co-hosted by ICSI, KPMG and Bentley Systems, this session will explore the transformative impact of digitalisation and AI on climate and disaster resilience. Participants will discuss innovative tools and technologies and showcase projects integrating these advancements to build socially impactful, resilient infrastructure.

  • Using UNDRR’s Principles for Resilient Infrastructure

📅 14 Nov
⏰ 13:15am – 14:30am
📍 CDRI Pavilion, Blue Zone

This session, co-hosted with UNDRR, will delve into the UNDRR Principles for Resilient Infrastructure, offering insights on implementing these guidelines to enhance resilience across infrastructure systems and improve adaptive capacity.

  • Building a Resilient Built Environment: A Collaborative Exploration of Measuring and Assessing Resilience

📅 16 Nov
⏰ 12:00pm – 13:00pm
📍 Resilience Hub

The event, co-hosted with BuildingToCop and Iuav University of Venice, aims to explore and showcase the emerging, effective risk assessment approaches, defining and measuring resilience in the built environment. By focusing on real-world implementation and assessment approaches from various geographies across the built environment value chain, the event will distil common principles that can be scaled globally to enhance urban resilience against climate impacts.

  • Building capacity & capability to transition to a sustainable, resilient and just built environment

📅 19 Nov
⏰ 18:30pm – 20:00pm
📍 Side Event 5, Blue Zone

Focusing on equipping the built environment sector with essential skills and knowledge, this event will examine the role of inclusive, sustainable practices in fostering resilience. The session, co-hosted with FIDIC, IEMA, World GBC and the WFEO Young Engineers, will place particular emphasis on empowering underrepresented groups and leveraging perspectives from both the Global North and South.

  • Nature-Positive Engineering: Protecting, Restoring, and Harnessing Biodiversity through Infrastructure

📅 20 Nov
⏰ 10:00am-11:30am
📍 CDRI Pavilion, Blue Zone

This event, co-hosted with Conservation International, will explore the role of nature-positive engineering in biodiversity protection. The session will highlight initiatives championing ecosystem-based adaptation and resilience, with an emphasis on the business case for nature-positive approaches.

Events ICSI will be Participating in

  • Resilient and sustainable infrastructure in the Eastern Mediterranean

📅13 Nov
⏰ 10:00am – 11:30am
📍 Greek Pavilion

Hosted by the Greek Ministry for the Environment and Energy in collaboration with Archirodon, this session will explore transformative approaches to infrastructure development necessary to meet global climate and development goals, focusing on the integration of natural systems and resilient design. George Karagiannis will be representing ICSI and, alongside other panellists, will discuss the potential of public-private partnerships, the role of multilateral banks in mobilising private investment for low-carbon infrastructure, and methods for assessing environmental impacts.

  • Integrating Multi-Capitals Measurement for Climate Adaptation Investment

📅13 Nov
⏰ 13:30 – 14:30
📍 REA/KPMG Pavilion, Blue Zone

This session bring together speakers from KPMG, ICSI, GIST Impact, and AON for a discussion on how assessment of natural, social, human and financial capitals – including their monetary valuation – can guide capital allocation, reduce impacts and build the resilience of businesses and communities. Panellists will discuss how diverse capital metrics can be integrated into decision-making, and will address the practical challenges of aligning these approaches with finance and strategic management processes.

  • Workshop: Promoting Climate-Resilient Public-Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Projects

📅14 Nov
⏰ 11:00am – 12:30am
📍 Renewable Energy Pavilion (Invitation only)

Supporting the UN SDGs, this invitation-only workshop hosted by KPMG will introduce a guide for climate-resilient Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), addressing key strategies for incorporating resilience into PPP models.

  • Investing in Inclusive Climate Adaptation and Resilience towards 2030

    📅15 Nov
    ⏰ 09:00am – 10:30pm
    📍 Namisi Room, Blue Zone

    This Marrakech Partnership Action Agenda event will see the launch of the SAA 2024 report “Investing in Inclusive Climate Adaptation and Resilience towards 2030”.  ICSI will also launch the Resilience4Ports Call to Action and Progress report at this event.

    • Towards a just resilient transition: Uniting systems for adaptation action under the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda

    📅16 Nov
    ⏰ 09:00am – 10:30pm
    📍 Resilience Hub

    This session is a convening of the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA) partners, hosted by the UN Climate Change High Level Champions. It will focus on partner efforts and priorities on Adaptation and Resilience towards COP30 through a cross-systems lens, tackling actions by organisations, cities, private sector (business and financiers), local communities and governments to secure resilient livelihoods and ecosystems by 2030. ICSI will share the Resilience4Ports Call to Action and Progress report at this event.

    • Climate-efficient agri-food systems infrastructure

    📅20 Nov
    ⏰ 15:00pm – 17:00pm
    📍 MDB Pavilion, Blue Zone

    This panel is hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. It will explore the potential of climate-efficient infrastructure investment in agri-food systems, discussing frameworks and financial tools to enhance resilience in this vital sector. Savina Carluccio, Executive Director of ICSI, will take part in the panel discussion.