About the Resilience Hub

From convening to catalysing: The next chapter for the Resilience Hub

Since its launch at COP26, the Resilience Hub has been a powerhouse of collaboration in the Blue Zone, bringing together diverse stakeholders to spark bold ideas and drive action. More than just a meeting space, it has fostered breakthrough solutions, creative engagement, and an energised community committed to resilience. With inclusivity at its core, the Hub bridges a global audience, amplifying voices from the Global South.

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Now, the Hub is entering its next phase—moving beyond convening to catalysing real-world solutions. While it will maintain a strong physical presence at key events on the road to COP30 and in the Blue Zone, its role is expanding. The Resilience Hub will be a platform where real-economy leaders do more than engage—they will lead, shaping strategies, driving investment, and accelerating resilience in their sectors.

However, critical gaps remain, preventing system-level solutions from being fully embedded into decision-making. To address this, the Resilience Hub is partnering with the Resilience Science Must-Knows initiative—an effort to distill the most essential insights from resilience science into clear, actionable strategies for implementation on the ground. This collaboration will ensure that the latest science directly informs policies, investments, and real-economy decisions.

The mission remains unchanged: accelerating ambition, action, and investment in adaptation and resilience. But with this renewed focus, the Resilience Hub is evolving into a driving force—one that transforms knowledge into impact and ensures resilience is not just discussed, but delivered.

Why Resilience?

Resilience is the ability to persist, adapt, and transform in the face of shocks and stresses.

  • Around the world, we are seeing more and more catastrophic climate impacts each year, particularly in the Global South. By 2030, it’s expected that four billion people will be at risk of climate impacts. 
  • Without sufficient resilience planning and policy-making, communities, cities, countries and entire regions and ecosystems will continue to face the devastating effects of the climate crisis.
  • We must protect those most vulnerable to climate impacts and address losses and damages – the need to compensate those most affected by the destructive impacts of climate change that cannot be avoided either by mitigation or adaptation – which are exacerbating global inequity.
  • To keep the goals of the Paris Agreement within reach and deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to halve emissions this decade, rapidly increase resilience and build adaptive capacities, putting people and nature first.

Guiding Principles for the Resilience Hub

  • Inclusive and Representative
    The Hub will lift up diverse voices that have been traditionally under-represented in the full co-development and delivery process.
  • Connecting Local to Global
    Through Regional Resilience Hubs and increased regional partnerships, the Resilience Hub is ensuring regional priorities and stakeholders are adequately represented at COP28.
  • Radical Collaboration
    The Hub will facilitate cross-partnership networking and encourage new collaboration between private, public and civil society actors, with a particular focus on amplifying community voices and local solutions that are frequently less heard in international climate dialogue spaces.
  • Focus on Action, Progress and Accountability
    The Hub is dedicated to advancing action on resilience and adaptation, showing what works and why; how to scale successful solutions; and raising further ambition.
  • Working Across the COP Landscape
    The Hub will work in tandem with other COP pavilions to ensure convergence around adaptation and resilience are highlighted across programming.