Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance
About
The Alliance is a multi-sectoral partnership, powered by the Z Zurich Foundation, focused on enhancing resilience to climate hazards in both rural and urban communities.
Formerly the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance, we have over a decade of experience in generating evidence of communities’ current levels of climate resilience and identifying appropriate solutions.
Our partners are drawn from the humanitarian, NGO, research and private sectors. We work together to achieve our vision by implementing solutions, promoting good practice, influencing policy and facilitating systemic change.
In the UK, the Alliance primary research partner is the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Our Vision:
Our vision is a world where communities are resilient to climate hazards, enabling them to thrive.
Our Objectives:
- Enhance and increase the resilience of urban and rural communities to climate hazards.
- Promote the widespread adoption of good climate resilience practices.
- Increase the funding available to communities to improve their climate resilience.
- Improve the policy environment for building community resilience to climate hazards.
How We Work
As an Alliance, we work to achieve our objectives through long-term, flexible, community-centered programming and a focus on systemic change.
We do this by delivering programmes, conducting evidence-based research, sharing our knowledge and influencing key stakeholders on resilience to climate hazards.
Our Work
Since 2013, the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance has successfully been developing and implementing the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC). To meet the increasing demand to measure resilience to multiple hazards (such as heatwaves and wildfires) in order to accelerate climate change adaptation, the FRMC has now evolved into the Climate Resilience Measurement for Communities (CRMC).
The CRMC is a data-driven process, complemented by a web-based tool and mobile app, which helps communities to evaluate and measure how resilient they are to climate hazards. Using the results, they can identify and implement resilience-building interventions and run additional measurements to track improvements.
Contact
If you have a question or would like to get in touch with us, please email us on info@zcralliance.org.