The Environment forum will focus on ‘Building Resilient Cities: from Challenges to Opportunities’. Participants will assess different resilience strategies taken at city level across Europe and discuss possible barriers and solutions regarding their implementation. Furthermore, a political debate will cover possible environmental priorities after the European elections. Further deep-dive sessions will examine risk and vulnerability assessment and try to identify viable ways of making the whole community resilient. 

A session will be dedicated to the UAP air quality to present in EUROCITIES working group Air quality, climate change and energy efficiency on 3 April. Silvia Moroni from city of Milan will present two outstanding final products of the partnership which were recently finalised. This is an air quality funding guide compiled together with EIB and a guide for cities on how to develop air quality action plans.