Category: Activating Resilience
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Living toward the Future
How we get from uncertainty to resilient prosperity In 2026, human beings returned to the Moon. The Artemis II mission carried four astronauts around the far side of the Moon and further from Earth than any human beings before them.…
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Resilience Intelligence as a Foundation for Future Wellbeing
The Resilience Intel Charter was released during an event in San Francisco, on September 12, 2018, during the Global Climate Action Summit. Its purpose was to establish foundational guidelines for a diverse, decentralized, global effort to develop actionable insights for…
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The Magic Formula is Honest Investment for Human Development
Climate politics, communication, and innovation, are mysteries to many in the policy world. The mystery centers on a persistent contradiction: Without urgent, transformational climate action, across the world, human suffering will likely expand to unprecedented levels, and yet, most people…
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Infuse Climate Progress into Existing Services
The most significant factor in determining whether climate policies turn into real-world benefits is their ability to support everyday economic activities. “Mainstreaming” is the process of connecting climate policy to local needs and priorities and the activities of small and…
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Biodiversity makes your life better, healthier, freer
Nature is where we all live. We create dwellings and communities, infrastructure and cities, but we are still embedded in and dependent on the biosphere—the living landscapes where life is able to thrive on our unique life-sustaining planet. May 22…
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Clean industry is the only viable future
We live in a time of great calamity and uncertainty, but we should find comfort in the following clarity: The clean future, which is our only viable future, is achievable, and it will bring with it unprecedented prosperity, wellbeing, and…
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No to reckless destruction, yes to cooperative stewardship
When we talk about the health and wellbeing of our planet, we are talking about our planet’s ability to provide conditions for our health and wellbeing. Earth is under unprecedented stress from unsustainable industrial activities, which overconsume nonrenewable resources and…
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Information Integrity is an Economic and Security Imperative
There is a reason all moral and religious traditions treat lying as an offense, even a sin which warrants divine punishment. Providing people with false information has real impacts on their ability to navigate the world. Falsehoods can break trust,…
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Transcending Crisis: Invest to improve lives & livelihoods
The 2025 Reinventing Prosperity Report The Principles for Reinventing Prosperity were established in 2020, through a consultative process focused on the adverse conditions facing people in communities across the world, during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns. The six principles focus on foundational…
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Design systems to transcend emerging & ongoing crises
A preview of the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity Report For the 2025 Reinventing Prosperity report, we are focusing on the principle Design to transcend crisis. The implication is that we need to consider not only how to emerge from shock events for the moment,…
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Infrastructure attuned to climate risk is needed everywhere
Infrastructure is the physical conditioning of our environment and experience. It can include roads and bridges, sewage systems and parks, ecological buffer zones, such as wetlands or mangroves, that help to protect human society against shock events. It is also…
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Banks could be drivers of climate-resilient prosperity
In mid-year climate talks between 197 nations this past week in Bonn, Germany, there have been calls from both wealthy and developing countries for clear, agreed guidance to support mainstream banks, large and small, in starting to act as climate banks. This…