Malmö named as a Resilience Hub by United Nations

Source: Smart Cities World by SmartCitiesWorld news team

The Swedish city has been recognised for its proactive efforts to prepare for and mitigate climate-related hazards and joins the other hubs of Barcelona, Helsingborg, Manchester and Milan.

Malmö is the latest European city to be named as a Resilience Hub by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) and its partners for its proactive efforts to prepare for and mitigate climate-related hazards.

The coastal city joins the fellow Swedish city of Helsingborg along with Barcelona, Manchester and Milan as the first European Resilience Hubs named by Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030), an initiative coordinated by 11 core partners.

Building resilience

UNDRR sits at the centre of the UN system for reducing risk, coordinating risk reduction activities towards a more resilient future, and protecting gains made towards the Sustainable Development Goals. It hosts the Secretariat of MCR2030 which has 11 core partners.

Malmö, which was severely flooded after a cloudburst event in 2014, recently completed a special coastal protection analysis, and a coastal protection strategy is expected to be finalised next year. The city has also taken steps to cut its energy use in city-owned buildings by 30 per cent and was named the most environmentally friendly municipality in the country last year.

“As a coastal city, Malmö is facing challenges from sea-level rise, storms, cloudbursts, and heatwaves today and even more in the future,” said Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, mayor of the City of Malmö.