Post by Ji-Soo YOON

✨ This past week brought two deeply complementary conversations on climate resilience and the future of the built environment. 👉 First, at COP30, I shared insights from the OECD's upcoming report Future-proofing Real Estate Investment: Place-based Risks. Our work highlights how climate-related physical and transition risks are profoundly location-specific and are financial risks. 👉 Second, in the same week, I attended Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction's Forum in Venice, a city that embodies both history and flood risk. Against this backdrop, architects, planners, scientists, engineers and policy makers explored global strategies for Retreat, Resist and Respond. From managed retreat programmes in Puerto Rico and Fiji, to Jakarta’s relocation, Venice’s MOSE flood barriers, Dutch delta design, AI-driven flood analytics, and nature-based solutions like wetlands and “spongy cities”, the message was consistent: Climate resilience requires place-based decisions, long-term planning, and collaboration across disciplines. What struck me most was how deeply these discussions echoed the findings from our OECD work: 1) the need for granular, local climate-risk data 2) the complexity of coordinating actors across the real estate ecosystem 3) the importance of linking finance to resilience and decarbonisation 4) the growing urgency of rethinking our relationship with land and risk Grateful to both Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) and Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction for bringing diverse perspectives together! Special thanks to Aziza Akhmouch for this great opportunity! The Policy Highlights of the upcoming report: https://lnkd.in/ebEF6gHD The full video of the COP30: https://lnkd.in/efBBXJDa OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions & Cities | Yves-Laurent SAPOVAL | Régis Meyer | Leigh Wolfrom | Kalliopi Kouroupaki | Kalliopi Papadaki | Thomas Van Rompaey (CESGA) | Reinier Mijsberg | Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) | Aziza Akhmouch | Soo-Jin KIM |Takahiro YAMADA | Robin Tivy | Gunes O. | Nastja Prusnik