COP30 Communique on Resilience

COP30 prioritised implementation—both for mitigation and adaptation—yet there remains a powerful need to define and materialise climate resilience in tangible and operational terms.

Resilience is about more than bouncing back after a shock, reducing risks, or clinging onto short-term economic or developmental gains. It is the ability to live and develop with change and uncertainty, to build sustained societal wealth and deliver a better world for future generations.

Adaptation and mitigation can never be handled as separate tracks but must be rather truly integrated strategies for systemic climate resilience. By its nature, resilience aligns with and underlies transformative efforts towards low-carbon societies where nature regeneration and nature-based solutions are central. There is an emerging and growing investment in understanding resilience from a science-based perspective, and our work must be guided by this and focused on the needs and expectations of future generations.

In recognition of our shared vision, we five organisations collectively commit to accelerating the global transition towards resilience, especially for actors outside civil society and the national public sector—including philanthropies and donor aid, corporations and investors, farmers and resource managers, and central banks and mayors—to ensure that all have deeper access to the best practices and latest findings.

At the close of COP30, with the urgency of action clearer than ever, we commit to work in collaboration rather than competition. To build effective and lasting resilience, we recognize the need to complement each other’s efforts and urge others to join us in a science-based approach informed by the Resilience Science Must-Knows, encouraging and enabling ongoing learning.

Building more resilient societies requires genuine and radical collaboration to address existing and emerging power imbalances and social inequalities. It requires unlocking choices, agency, and recognizing that resilience gains go far beyond economic revenue. Together, across sectors from cities to communities, across land and sea, we can help shape a resilient Earth.

— John Matthews, Executive Director, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA)
— Karen Sack, Executive Director, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA)
— Wendy Broadgate, Global Hub Director, Sweden Hub & Interim Coordinating Director, Future Earth
— Jesper Hörnberg, Chief Executive Officer, Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)
— Jorge Gastelumendi, Senior Director, Atlantic Council Climate Resilience Center