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This climate policy brief uses the Copenhagen Agreement as an opportunity to significantly advance the climate change agenda and to establish a solid enabling environment for climate change adaptation. It asserts that combining local knowledge and global support to tackle climate change issues would enable cities to be in a position to lead successful adaptation and sustain those gains through proactive ‘climate-proof’ development policy and planning. It highlights critical issues raised in the Cities and Resilience Dialogue held in Bangkok, Thailand September 28-29, 2009, which reviewed the progress of cities in addressing the consequences of climate change with city representatives from India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam; their respective national climate change negotiators; and key supporting institutions active in the region.