Resilient Sydney released

Resilient Sydney: a strategy for city resilience’ is the first of its kind and the result of two years’ work. It was developed with an unprecedented level of collaboration across metropolitan Sydney involving 33 council areas, 100 business and government organisations and more than 1000 residents.

It was developed after the City of Sydney won a place in the 100 Resilient Cities initiative pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation. 100 Resilient Cities provides technical support and resources for cities to develop and implement strategies to help them survive, adapt and thrive in the face of 21st century challenges.

Resilient Sydney outlines five flagship actions, which will be implemented over the next two years:

• Resilient growth target – every council in Sydney to adopt a resilience strategy;
• Cool suburbs target – a scoring system to reduce effects of extreme heat, which is rated as one of Sydney’s biggest threats;
• Cohesion and wellbeing target – a five per cent improvement in community cohesion in five years;
• Preparedness target – 100,000 Sydneysiders to download the ‘Get Prepared’ app by the Red Cross and Insurance Australia Group;
• Collaborative commitment target – 100 organisations to implement resilience plans.

To find out more, visit www.100resilientcities.org/cities/sydney/