Climate Risk and Resilience Toolkit 

For businesses, industries and cities, the built environment and infrastructure is where climate risk becomes economic reality.  

These curated insights help business and city leaders respond with confidence. They translate global expertise into practical guides for decarbonization, nature restoration and climate resilient action.

Energy efficient and decarbonized assets

Practical guides to accelerate the transition to low carbon futures by informing strategies and formulating policies across real-estate, construction, energy and other sectors.

Adaptive Reuse of Built Assets

A model policy on repurposing existing buildings and assets to extend their lifespan (2024).

Whole Life Carbon Assessment (WLCA)

A model policy to create WLCA legislation and policies for major developments (2023).

Adoption Playbook for Whole Life Carbon

A playbook supporting the adoption of WLCA policy and overcoming challenges (2024).

Practitioners Guide to Whole Life Carbon

A guide for practitioners on ways to comply and prepare for WLCA implementation (2024). 

Reducing Embodied Carbon in Cities

A white paper on nine solutions for enabling greener buildings and communities (2024).

Decarbonization of Buildings

A briefing paper about the 'building value framework' for shifting how value is defined and perceived (2022). 

Green Buildings Principles

An insight report providing steps to deliver net-zero carbon real estate portfolios and guidance on implementation (2021).

Net-Zero Carbon Cities - Energy

An insight report recommending an integrated energy approach as a solution, defined as systemic efficiency (2021).

Nature restoration 

Practical guides to accelerate the transition to nature positive cities and industries by informing strategies and formulating policies. 

CEO Briefing: Financing the Transition in Cities 

This briefing articulates the arguments for why financial institutions must take action on nature.

Nature Positive: Financing the Transition in Cities

An insight report making the financial case for nature solutions and provides guidelines for city and business leaders (2025).

Nature Positive: Guidelines for the Transition in Cities

An insight report for regenerating nature in cities with guiding frameworks and tools to support decisions (2024).

Nature Positive: Leaders' Insights for the Transition 

An insight report highlighting success stories of weaving nature into urban life and offers scalable solutions (2025).

Cities’ Efforts to Advance the Transition – Barranquilla 

Barranquilla, one of Colombia’s fastest-growing cities, is redefining urban development by investing over $380 million in green infrastructure, renewable energy and water management (2025).

Cities’ Efforts to Advance the Transition – San Francisco

San Francisco is leading the shift towards ecological resilience by embedding nature into city planning through partnerships, community engagement and standardized data systems (2025).

Cities’ Efforts to Advance the Transition – Durban

The City of Durban and the eThekwini Municipality are enhancing partnerships and initiatives, structures, and plans to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, while maximizing its economic and social potential (2024).

Sector Transitions to Nature Positive 

These insights are also part of the Nature Positive Transitions series that informs sectoral approaches for business, guides the financing sector, and helps cities reconcile their relationship with nature, while aligning with the Global Biodiversity Framework. 

Climate adaptation and resilience

Practical guides to accelerate the transition to extreme weather risk adaptation and resilience across infrastructure, along with insights to catalyse public and private action across key resilience drivers for sustainable and inclusive growth. 

Business on the Edge: Building Industry Resilience to Climate Hazards

An insight report exploring climate hazards, showing how heat and flood threaten corporate fixed assets with potentially annual earnings losses of 6.6%–7.3% by 2035, and offers a roadmap for progress (2024). 

Resilient Economies: Strategies for Sinking Cities, Infrastructure and Flood Risks

An insight report highlighting the pathways for addressing compounding risks from land subsidence and extreme weather event to built infrastructure, economic and societal resilience (2025). 

Resilient Economies: Flood Adaptation Infrastructure Innovations - Japan

A briefing paper on infrastructure innovations across urban-rural areas of Japan, enabling immediate and long-term adaptation and building resilient to increasing flood risks (2026).

From Wildfire Risk to Resilience: The Investment Case for Action

A white paper presenting a framework for shifting towards prevention-focused, long-term wildfire resilience by making risk reduction measurable, priceable and financeable (2026).

Delivering Climate Resilient Cities Using a Systems Approach

An insight report providing cities with an actionable strategy to take a systems approach to climate resilience strategies. It provides a 5-step action plan to guide cities in adopting a systems approach to urban infrastructure delivery (2022). 

Resilient Firms and Economies: How to Help Unlock Growth in Emerging Markets

A white paper examining how coordinated actions can turn resilience challenges into sustainable growth, as only one in four companies feel prepared across resilience dimensions (2025).

Resilience Pulse Check: Harnessing Collaboration to Navigate a Volatile World

A white paper on how businesses are responding to today’s challenges, with insights from over 250 leaders across industries and regions (2025).

Building a Resilient Tomorrow: Concrete Actions for Global Leaders

A white paper showcasing pioneering initiatives from public and private organizations with concrete actions to promote resilience and identify opportunities for collaboration and investments (2024).

High-quality built environment and infrastructure

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Adds Economic Value

High-quality Baukultur prioritizes cultural values and long-term investments over short-term economic gain, conserves and increases economic value, and is high value in use. It maintains and develops resources through long-term uses in alignment with the location and design, economy of construction and operation, and through the use of high-quality, long-lasting building fabric.

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Connects People

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Protects the Environment

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Follows Good Governance

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Improves Sense of Place 
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Fits the Purpose

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Results in Spatial Coherence

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Is Beautiful

Other resources and case studies

Through it's activities the Davos Baukultur Alliance aims to identify and promote innovative practices and develop global policy principles and concrete tools to advance high-quality Baukultur.  Explore the toolkit below for supporting reports and case studies.

2019 Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA), LobbyGuard, Seattle Police Department (SPD).LobbyGuard technology streamlines the check-in process and transitions SPD from a manual paper sign-in/sign-out form to a digital visitor management system. This digital visitor management system is designed to solve major challenges related to the visitor check-in process: speed and security.A PIA is necessary to address possible concerns from the public that SPD is collecting personal data, including that from a visitor’s driver’s license. As a convenience to a visitor, this system has the ability to scan a visitor’s driver’s license to pull in the user’s first and last name, so that a visitor does not need to type their first and last name. The system is configured to only pull in the visitors first and last name from a license scan. This saves the visitor time by reducing the amount of typing required to meet the sign-in/out requirements of access to the SPD security facility.
USA | Government, Technology
Seattle LobbyGuard PIA
City of Seattle
Tips for protecting against malicious code from the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.
USA | Government, Technology
Protecting Against Malicious Code
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is an in-depth review and analysis of a project, program, technology system and/or process and intended to identify and resolve privacy risks throughout the design or redesign of a technology, system, program or service. The County of Huron is responsible for ensuring the protection of individuals’ privacy at all times. The protection of privacy also forms part of the County’s Accountability and Openness principles that identify the public expectation for access to the County’s information and the protection of their privacy. The County Clerk has authority to ensuresafeguards are in place to protect personal information that is in the County’s custody or control. It is the responsibility of all County staff to ensure these protections are in place within technologies, systems, programs or services.This policy applies to all departments in the County of Huron including staff, volunteers and contract staff hired by the County or by third party organizations hired under an agreement or contract.
USA | Government, Technology
Huron County PIA Policy
The Open Data Policy Hub was created by the Sunlight Foundation’s Open Cities team in August 2018. Its purpose is to collect all of our resources related to open data policies on a single user-friendly website, replacing resources that had been scattered across five different websites.This site is operated on a non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan basis. Many of the resources here were developed as part of the What Works Cities project of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Government, Technology
Open Data Policy Hub - SUNLIGHT Foundation
Sunlight Foundation
A guidance outlining best practice for managing street and road works for the deployment of broadband infrastructure.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
UK Street Works Toolkit
United Kingdom Government
This site describes how to combine contract level disclosures using the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) with project-level disclosure based on the CoST Infrastructure Data Standard (CoST IDS), in order to support scalable disclosure and monitoring of infrastructure project identification, preparation, implementation and delivery.This Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standards (OC4IDS) Toolkit will show you how to:Publish standardized data on infrastructure projects and contracts using the CoST IDS and OCDS.Extract infrastructure contracting data from existing procurement portals.Connect contract and project-level information using OC4IDS.Assess published data against the CoST IDS.Make use of data when monitoring infrastructure projects.
Government, Technology
Open Contracting for Infrastructure Data Standards Toolkit
Open Contracting Partnership
Concerns around confidentiality of information in contracts are arguably the most significant barriers to more openness. This brief guide proposes five core principles to make contracting information open-by-design to avoid a lazy default of routinely classifying information as confidential unless proven otherwise.Discussing these principles with more than 70 experts across government, business and civil society from more than 20 countries, it is examined the ten most common arguments against making contracting information public. It is found surprisingly little evidence that backed up the harm proposed by the arguments and quite a lot of evidence that does not support them.
Government, Technology
Mythbusting Confidentiality in Public Contracting
Open Contracting Partnership
Local Full Fibre Networks Challenge Fund Guidance: This document sets out the revised guidance and application process for the Local Full Fibre Networks Challenge Fund.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
Public sector anchor tenancy in UK
United Kingdom Government
CBN (Community Broadband Network) works with local authorities, businesses and NGOs, both in the UK and internationally, to help develop transformational and sustainable digital infrastructure. It brings together some of the UK’s top experts in telecommunications strategy, business development, technical implementation, and mutual structures. Dig Once Trusts: Deploying fibre-duct infrastructure at minimal cost. Following the example of US cities, it is possible to build a comprehensive fibre infrastructure at low cost by installing ducting during development and construction work. By creating a neutral body that can hold the ducting in trust, and make it available to stakeholders for rent, it’s possible to overcome some of the obstacles that have prevented progress in the UK.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
CBN - Community Broadband Network
This case study explores the potential of nocturnal heritage as a driver for urban regeneration in Valparaíso’s historic port district. Although designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003, the area has faced physical and social decline, losing residents and commercial activity. Conducted in 2019 by the Municipality of Valparaíso in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the study proposes a revitalisation strategy centred on reactivating symbolic nighttime spaces such as historic bars and the local market. It argues that the night holds cultural, economic, and social value, and that a new governance approach is needed to harness these assets and bring life back to the historic quarter after dark.
Chile
Nocturnal Heritage: Awakening the historic quarter of Valparaíso
In light of an increasing number of cybersecurity events, organizations can improve resilience by ensuring that their risk management processes include comprehensive recovery planning. Identifying and prioritizing organization resources helps to guide effective plans and realistic test scenarios. This preparation enables rapid recovery from incidents when they occur and helps to minimize the impact on the organization and its constituents. Additionally, continually improving recovery planning by learning lessons from past events, including those of other organizations, helps to ensure the continuity of important mission functions. This publication provides tactical and strategic guidance regarding the planning, playbook developing, testing, and improvement of recovery planning. It also provides an example scenario that demonstrates guidance and informative metrics that may be helpful for improving resilience of information systems.Part of the Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC). Published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
USA | Government, Technology
NIST SP 800-184 Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Open contracting data from the Crown Commercial Service.
United Kingdom | Government, Technology
Crown Commercial Service (UK) Open Contracting Policy
United Kingdom Government
A Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is a method for conducting an in-depth review of how data is collected and managed for a program or project. It asks questions about the collection, use, sharing, security and access controls for data. It also asks for information about policies, training and documentation that govern use of the technology and data collected. The PIA responses are used to determine privacy risks associated with a project as well as ways to reduce some or all of those risks. The City of Seattle has committed to publishing all PIAs on an outward facing website for public access.
USA | Government, Technology
Seattle PIA Reviews
City of Seattle
Open Government is the comprehensive redesign of politics and administrative activities according to the principles of modern Public Management and Public Governance. In terms of the above, Open Government focuses on transparency, participation, and collaboration. The KDZ Implementation Model is based on and significantly elaborates the "Open Government Implementation Model" by Lee/Kwak1. The practical experiences of the city of Vienna and other institutions in German-speaking countries have been incorporated into the model.
Government, Technology
Open Government Implementation Model - Vienna
This provides an extended Open Contracting Data Standard schema, offering a structured data model for presenting information on Public Private Partnership Projects.
Government, Technology
Open Contracting for Public-Private Partnership
Open Contracting Partnership
This Open Data Policy defines the principles governing City of Seattle Open Data and describes the expectations for department participation and governance of the Seattle Open Data Program.(According to analysis of US open data policies by the Sunlight Foundation, Seattle’s open data policy is the highest rated among cities with a population over 500,000.)
Government, Technology
Seattle's Open Data Policy
This not-for-profit safety initiative began in Lincolnshire in 2016 and was adopted by the Metropolitan Police and Safer Sounds in London. It enables individuals who feel vulnerable or unsafe during a night out in licensed venues to discreetly request help by asking staff for “Angela”. Staff trained through WAVE (Welfare And Vulnerability Engagement) are then able to guide the person to a safe space, call them a taxi, contact venue security or the police, all in a subtle manner. The scheme empowers patrons across gender identities and backgrounds to seek support confidently in nightlife settings.
United Kingdom
Ask for Angela Campaign
Ask For Angela
This report is the synthesis of insights drawn from the Governance Workshop of the 24-Hour Cities Network on April 28th, 2022. The 2-hour workshop covered a wide variety of topics and included presentations and discussions on how to build effective city governance at night-time. This report is divided into three main sections: framing of governance at night for the discussion, insights from the main case studies presented, and insights from the group discussion that followed.
24-Hour Cities Network: Governance Case Studies
Mastercard 24 - Hour Cities Network
This report synthesizes insights drawn from the mobility workshop held by the 24-Hour Cities Network on September 21, 2022. The two-hour workshop covered a wide variety of topics and included presentations and discussions on how to leverage ecosystem-wide solutions for safe and reliable nighttime urban mobility. This report is divided into three main sections: an introduction to the concept of mobility from a nighttime planning perspective, insights from the main case studies presented, and insights from the group discussion that followed.
24-Hour Cities Network: Mobility Case Studies
Mastercard 24 - Hour Cities Network
This report synthesizes insights drawn from the safety workshop of the 24-Hour Cities Networkon June 14th, 2022. The two-hour workshop covered a wide variety of topics and includedpresentations and discussions on how to create safe and inclusive cities at nighttime. This reportis divided into three main sections: introducing the concept of safety from a nighttime planningperspective, insights from the main case studies that were presented, and insights from the groupdiscussion that followed.
24-Hour Cities Network: Safety Case Studies
Mastercard 24 - Hour Cities Network

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