Surat in India is Leading the Way in Coastal City Climate Resilience

Surat, a port city of 7 million on India's western coast, is constructing the Dumas Sea Wall project—combining hard engineering (embankment strengthening, dikes, pedestrian promenade, cycling track) with nature-based solutions (mangrove forests as storm buffers)—backed by UN Environment Programme and Asian Development Bank through the Global Environment Facility, with the program targeting 250+ million tonnes of GHG emissions reduction and 1 million hectares of land restoration across 50 cities in 17 countries.