Opportunities for Private Sector Engagement in Urban Climate Change Resilience Building

The approach taken has been to explore the current state of private sector engagement in resilience building and future opportunities through primary and secondary research, to showcase potentially viable business models and to understand challenges to private sector engagement in this space.As case studies, we focused on the vulnerabilities of and opportunities in four of the ten cities participating in the Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network program - Gorakhpur and Surat in India, Semarang in Indonesia and Chiang Rai in Thailand.