Mott MacDonald to shape programs for COP26 Resilience Hub

The UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland — also known as the 26th Conference of Parties to the Climate Convention, or COP26 — has been called the last best chance for the world’s governments to slow the rate of global climate change.

Mott MacDonald, which achieved net-zero status in 2020, is proud to take a leading role in COP26 and its Resilience Hub, a virtual and physical center for addressing resilience and adaptation. The Resilience Hub highlights how governments, organizations, businesses, and communities across the world are working to build resilience to risks from climate change.

Mott MacDonald has been chosen to help shape the programs for three of the ten themes of the Resilience Hub. Themes 2 and 10 are aligned with the daily themes of COP26 as a whole.

Theme 2. Nature: Water. Water is at the very heart of the climate crisis, as crucial to adaptation as carbon is to mitigation. This theme will highlight the positive social, environmental, and economic outcomes that investing in water resilience will bring. We will participate with our client Anglian Water Services and Water Pavilion partners that work closely with the Resilience Hub.

We know that we can't escape some degree of climate change, so putting climate resilience, as well as net-zero, at the heart of everything we do is critical to our purpose of delivering social outcomes.

Mike Haigh

Executive Chair

Theme 6. Resilient Infrastructure. This theme will focus on the urgency of implementing adaptation in the infrastructure sector as a means to drive economic growth and equitable access to infrastructure services. We are participating through our work with the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment.

Theme 10. Health and Wellbeing. The impacts of climate change, from blistering heatwaves to floods and droughts, are devastating the health and well-being of people around the world. This theme highlights the human stories that underpin these impacts, and frames these experiences within systems-level challenges that communities, countries, and regions face. We are participating with the Atlantic Council's Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance.