Resilient Plymouth

Resilient Plymouth is the city’s participation in the EU’s flagship climate adaptation programme Pathways2Resilience (P2R), running from January 2026 to August 2027. Plymouth is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south and by rivers Plym and Tamar to the east, west and north. The P2R focus here is on the long-term risks posed by coastal, fluvial and pluvial flooding, developing a 50–100 year approach to climate resilience for Plymouth’s communities, infrastructure, economy and natural environment. Its core outputs are a baseline evaluation, a climate adaptation strategy, an adaptation action plan and a five-year investment plan designed to support implementation beyond the programme itself.

Participation in the programme was initiated by the Key Cities Innovation Network (KCIN), working in partnership with Plymouth City Council and the University of Plymouth’s Centre for Coastal Communities. The project combines scientific modelling, civic engagement and policy development to create practical and scalable approaches to climate adaptation that can be shared across the Key Cities network, the UK and internationally.

A particular focus of Resilient Plymouth is finance innovation. Alongside adaptation planning, the partnership is exploring new investment models capable of supporting long-term climate resilience, including mechanisms designed to attract institutional and private capital into adaptation infrastructure and nature-based solutions. The programme positions adaptation not simply as a public-sector challenge, but as an area for collaborative investment and sustainable economic development.

As KCIN Secretariat, the Images&Co team coordinates programme development, stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange activities, including links with the wider Key Cities network and the Key Cities Symposium on Resilience at the i-PLACE 26 conference in Southampton.

Resilient Plymouth

Resilient Plymouth is the city’s participation in the EU’s flagship climate adaptation programme Pathways2Resilience (P2R), running from January 2026 to August 2027. Plymouth is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the south and by rivers Plym and Tamar to the east, west and north. The P2R focus here is on the long-term risks posed by coastal, fluvial and pluvial flooding, developing a 50–100 year approach to climate resilience for Plymouth’s communities, infrastructure, economy and natural environment. Its core outputs are a baseline evaluation, a climate adaptation strategy, an adaptation action plan and a five-year investment plan designed to support implementation beyond the programme itself.

Participation in the programme was initiated by the Key Cities Innovation Network (KCIN), working in partnership with Plymouth City Council and the University of Plymouth’s Centre for Coastal Communities. The project combines scientific modelling, civic engagement and policy development to create practical and scalable approaches to climate adaptation that can be shared across the Key Cities network, the UK and internationally.

A particular focus of Resilient Plymouth is finance innovation. Alongside adaptation planning, the partnership is exploring new investment models capable of supporting long-term climate resilience, including mechanisms designed to attract institutional and private capital into adaptation infrastructure and nature-based solutions. The programme positions adaptation not simply as a public-sector challenge, but as an area for collaborative investment and sustainable economic development.

As KCIN Secretariat, the Images&Co team coordinates programme development, stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange activities, including links with the wider Key Cities network and the Key Cities Symposium on Resilience at the i-PLACE 26 conference in Southampton.