EVENT: Peripheries and Climate Justice: Challenges and Innovations

Written By WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

November 10, 2025 | 3:30 - 4:30pm GMT-03

This roundtable aimed to reflect on emerging challenges and innovations in policies for resilience, adaptation, and climate justice in peripheral territories and urban communities. It addressed successful experiences currently underway, such as the Periferia Viva Program for the comprehensive urbanization of slums and the Periferia Sem Risco Strategy, developed by the Brazilian Ministry of Cities, and the Affordable Housing Program, carried out by the Kenyan Ministry of Lands, Public Works, Housing, and Urban Development. The panel also included representatives from UN-Habitat, WRI and Sebrae, who shared strategies and experiences of inclusive climate adaptation prioritizing peripheral communities.

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities is World Resources Institute’s program dedicated to shaping a future where cities work better for everyone. Together with partners around the world, we help create resilient, inclusive, low-carbon places that are better for people and the planet. Our network of more than 500 experts working from Brazil, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the Netherlands, Mexico, Turkey and the United States combine research excellence with on-the-ground impact to make cities around the world better places to live.

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