Webinar: Resilience Finance for Local Governments

August 25, 2026
11:00 a.m. PT | 2:00 p.m. ET
Online Webinar

Local governments increasingly understand where their communities face the greatest resilience risks. They know which roads flood, which neighborhoods experience extreme heat, and which critical assets are most vulnerable during severe weather.

The challenge is no longer identifying the need. It is finding a credible path to funding and implementation.

How can local governments move a resilience project from a priority on paper to one that attracts public funding, private capital, insurance incentives, or other investment?

Join ICLEI USA and Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability for a 90-minute webinar introducing the Resilience Finance Guidebook for Local Governments. This new resource is designed to help local governments identify financing barriers, communicate the value of resilience investments, and move projects from planning toward implementation.

Participants will hear from the Guidebook’s authors and local government leaders who have successfully financed resilience projects. Featured case studies, including Hoboken and other pioneering jurisdictions, will explore what worked, what did not, and the lessons local leaders can apply in their own communities.

This webinar is designed for resilience officers, finance directors, public works leaders, planners, sustainability professionals, elected officials, and others working to fund and implement local resilience priorities.

Participants will leave with tools and strategies they can use to:

• Identify barriers that may be preventing resilience projects from moving forward
• Communicate the financial and community value of resilience investments
• Align projects with funding, financing, insurance, and investment opportunities
• Apply lessons from communities that have successfully financed resilience projects

Speakers: Coming soon.

This webinar is co-hosted by ICLEI USA and Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability.