Category: Activating Resilience
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Services need to keep operating through shock events
Redundancy is a critical climate preparedness and resilience measure; lean stocking and staffing are no longer credible in a world where shock events are likely and becoming more frequent and widespread.
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Ambition in New York
193 nations and hundreds of side meetings advance paradigm shift to sustainable policy and practice New York Climate Week and the United Nations General Assembly were, as usual, a nonstop flood of meetings, negotiations, advocacy, and announcements. Dr. Katharine Hayhoe,…
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Environmental Health is Human Health
Nature is a continuum. If we look at the local details of what we call “the climate system”, this continuum becomes visible: mountain glaciers shed water into rivers and streams, which fan out across the landscape, and eventually run to…
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Build Back by Reinventing Prosperity
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly, and radically, altered the everyday assumptions of people around the world. We have seen shocking loss of life and unprecedented direct and indirect costs (one estimate projects potential GDP losses of $82.4 trillion over 5 years.) Decision-making…