Youth4Capacity Becoming Resilience Builders: Becoming Resilience Builders | 22 July
Join UNFCCC's Youth4Capacity Becoming Resilience Builders webinar on 22 July 2026. Learn how young people can drive urban climate adaptation and resilience. Free, online, 13:00 UTC.
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Youth4Capacity: Becoming Resilience Builders — Free UNFCCC Webinar on 22 July
Four days. Free. Register now.
The UNFCCC's Youth4Capacity Programme and the UNDP Rome Centre's Adaptation Accelerator Hub are hosting Becoming Resilience Builders on 22 July 2026, 13:00 to 14:30 UTC; a free interactive online session exploring how young people can actively shape urban climate adaptation rather than simply endure its consequences.
Cities are on the front line of the climate crisis. Extreme heat, flash flooding, prolonged droughts, and cascading infrastructure failures are no longer projections for the next decade; they're happening now, in cities across every region. Young people are disproportionately affected. They're also the constituency with the longest stake in what comes next. This session is built around that premise.
What the Session Covers
Becoming Resilience Builders is part of the Youth4Capacity "Becoming…" series; a structured sequence of webinars designed to build the practical knowledge and collaborative skills young people need to act meaningfully on climate change. Each session in the series connects the SDGs, climate action, and the three Rio conventions through a youth lens.
This particular session focuses on urban climate resilience and adaptation. Participants explore how cities can design for extreme weather events, how community-led responses differ from top-down adaptation frameworks, and how innovative thinking can generate solutions that simultaneously benefit people, reduce emissions, and strengthen social inclusion.
It's not a passive lecture. The session runs breakout groups where participants work through realistic climate scenarios together; a format that builds not just knowledge but the teamwork, communication, and solution-pitching skills that climate advocacy actually requires. You don't watch someone else explain resilience. You practise building it.
About the Organisers
The UNDP Rome Centre's Adaptation Accelerator Hub works with developing countries, particularly those most exposed to climate risk, to translate national adaptation priorities into initiatives that are both finance-ready and implementation-oriented. Its model is explicitly systems-oriented; designed for the kind of long-term, structural resilience that one-off interventions can't achieve.
The Youth4Capacity Programme sits within the UNFCCC's capacity-building architecture and has been a consistent platform for young climate practitioners to develop technical understanding, exchange experience across borders, and engage substantively with the multilateral climate system. The Becoming… series is one of its most accessible entry points; designed for young people at different stages of their climate journey, not just those already embedded in the UN system.
What You'll Take Away
By the end of the 90-minute session, participants will have a clearer working understanding of how urban climate adaptation functions in practice; what cities need, what communities can drive, and where young people fit into both. The breakout scenario work gives you a practical framework for thinking through adaptation design, which is directly transferable to advocacy, community projects, and academic or professional contexts.
You'll also leave with connections. The session brings together young climate leaders from across geographies; the peer network that emerges from a well-facilitated breakout session is often as valuable as the content itself.
How to Register
The session is free and open online.
Event page and registration: https://unfccc.int/event/becoming-resilience-builders
Full Youth4Capacity Becoming… series: https://unfccc.int/topics/capacity-building/projects/youth4capacity/youth4capacity-becoming-series
Youth4Capacity programme page: https://unfccc.int/topics/capacity-building/projects/youth4capacity
Contact: youth4capacity@unfccc.int
The session runs 90 minutes on a Wednesday afternoon; light enough to fit around most schedules and substantive enough to be worth clearing your calendar for. If urban climate resilience is anywhere near your area of work or advocacy, register now and join on the 22nd.
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