The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs marked a decade of the CapaCITIES programme with an event titled 'Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience: CapaCITIES Legacy and Way Forward', held on 14 July 2026 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Organised by ICLEI South Asia and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), the gathering reviewed ten years of building local climate capacities in Indian cities. Funded by the Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan and launched in 2016, CapaCITIES, the Capacity Building on Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Urban Development project, has helped mainstream low-carbon and climate-resilient development in urban governance, supporting India's 2070 net zero emissions target. It was implemented through ICLEI South Asia, South Pole and econcept, with NIUA as knowledge partner. The programme supported eight cities, namely Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Vadodara, Coimbatore, Tiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli, Siliguri and Udaipur, along with the Gujarat and Tamil Nadu state governments. Over the decade it introduced Net-Zero Climate Resilient City Action Plans (CRCAPs) in eight cities, set up permanent climate action cells in six cities, and delivered pilots such as a 154 kWp floating solar plant in Coimbatore, a green mobility zone in Rajkot, a flood early-warning system in Tirunelveli and Miyawaki urban forestry in Vadodara. More than 35 cities used the CRCAP methodology and over 1,000 people were trained. Three knowledge products were launched, including the Net-Zero Climate Resilient Methodology Toolkit. The capacity-building framework was also extended to Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.