WRC5 Plenary Session: Social, Infrastructural, and Economic Recovery from Disasters: An Opportunity to Reset the Development Pathway Towards a Greener and More Resilient Future

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A greener, more resilient and inclusive approach to recovery will help repair structural damage caused by COVID-19 and accelerate climate change mitigation and adaption efforts while restoring momentum on poverty reduction and shared prosperity. This integrated approach seeks to achieve more sustainable and equitable recovery and growth by: i) promoting investments in “greener” systems of production and consumption; ii) supporting resilience building to a variety of shocks to avoid diverting scarce resources to repeated cycles of shock, restructuring, recovery, and rebuilding; and iii) ensuring that recovery is inclusive and does not leave anyone behind.

This session will outline how the world has been transformed since WRC4 and highlight opportunities for improving disaster recovery planning and management to be more sustainable, inclusive and resilient. The session will delve into the policy, strategic and operational challenges and approaches for ensuring that disaster recovery can foster and catalyze greener and resilient development.

Objectives

• Clarify how recovery opportunities and challenges have changed and become more complex since WRC4 with the advent of the pandemic;
• Identify challenges and opportunities for more sustainable, inclusive and resilient recovery.
• Tease out the various elements and modalities of making social, economic and infrastructural recovery more resilient and sustainable.
• Develop a roadmap of specific policy, strategic and operational measures for ensuring that disaster recovery can in turn promote greener and resilient development