Panel 2: Urban Climate Innovation: Air Quality, Livelihoods & Decentralized Resilience

​Session: Urban Climate Innovation: Air Quality, Livelihoods & Decentralized Resilience
Date: May 22
Time: 4:00 PM

​About the Session
As part of the Greenovation Urban Climate Resilience Challenge, this session will explore how climate stressors like air pollution and extreme heat are increasingly impacting urban livelihoods, especially for informal workers and vulnerable communities. It will bring together insights on how decentralized, practical solutions can help cities adapt while improving health, income stability, and resilience.

​What the Session Will Cover

• ​Air Quality and Heat as a livelihood crisis: Understanding how pollution and rising temperatures affect health, productivity, and income, especially for informal workers

• ​The urban adaptation gap: Why some households and enterprises recover faster than others, and where gaps exist in finance, infrastructure, services, and worker protection

• ​Decentralized solutions that work: Exploring scalable interventions like cooling solutions, green infrastructure, shading, permeable surfaces, and community-level innovations

• ​From pilots to replication: What it takes to move from small pilots to city-wide adoption, including partnerships, financing, policy alignment, and evidence building

​Who Should Attend

• ​Startups and innovators working on urban climate, clean air, and heat resilience

• ​Urban planners, architects, and development practitioners

• ​Policymakers and government stakeholders

• ​Investors and ecosystem enablers focused on climate and urban innovation

• ​Organizations working with informal workers, vulnerable communities, and urban livelihoods

​Why Attend
This session offers grounded insights into how climate innovation can move from pilots to scalable solutions, while ensuring that the most vulnerable urban populations are not left behind.