The knowledge on climate science and the ability to predict future climate through climate models has developed immensely over the years, yet this knowledge is not available to practitioners, urban managers and decision-makers to base their decisions. There is a strong need to equip the planning mechanisms in urban areas to withstand, adapt, and become resilient to climate change impacts. To be able to do so, the practitioners and various stakeholders in the urban space not only need an understanding of climate science but also the linkages to climate impacts to city systems, such that this information could be logically applied to decision-making processes and could be inbuilt into the development paradigm.

The 'Capacity building program on urban climate change resilience in India' is sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). Under their CAPaBLE programme, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) will be designing and delivering a capacity building program on urban climate resilience to the following set of stakeholders in 4 states in India:

• Elected representatives;
• Policy-makers;
• City officials and Practitioners; (iv) Students and Researchers.

The project endeavours that the goal of building urban climate change resilience is inculcated at all levels of governance and is implemented to its true intent.