Helping you to use systems thinking
to improve the climate resilience of places

Living Lab Playbook

Collaboratively accelerate your climate resilience innovation

Projects & Initiatives

Living Lab Playbook

Living Lab Playbook

Collaboratively accelerate your climate resilience innovation

Data-driven finance for a sustainable Kenya

Data-driven finance for a sustainable Kenya

Data-driven integrated planning tools for sustainable investment in Kisumu, Kenya

Pathway for a Sustainable Covid Recovery in Yucatán – Camino para una Recuperación Sostenible post-Covid en Yucatán

Pathway for a Sustainable Covid Recovery in Yucatán – Camino para una Recuperación Sostenible post-Covid en Yucatán

How Yucatán can best utilise data skills in a sustainable recovery from Covid-19

Net-Zero Waste Champions

Net-Zero Waste Champions

Enable local groups to help businesses in Norfolk to create net-zero waste plans

The Healthy City

The Healthy City

A futuristic reimagining of the urban economy and built environment

Open Data Infrastructure for City Resilience Navigator

Open Data Infrastructure for City Resilience Navigator

Tool for cities to access guidance on open data for resilience

Exeter Living Lab

Exeter Living Lab

The Living Lab brings cross-sector stakeholders together for local solutions

Ebbsfleet Central

Ebbsfleet Central

Collaboratively defining a sustainability vision and decision tool for a garden city

City Finance lab – Northern Gateway

City Finance lab – Northern Gateway

Advising green infrastructure investment for the Northern Gateway

Pivot Projects

Pivot Projects

Investigating the opportunities of creating a green recovery

ACT on NBS

ACT on NBS

Support uptake & scale up of Nature-Based Solutions

Nexus Resilience

Nexus Resilience

Integrating town planning, public health, climate, biophilia & neuroscience expertise

Bristol Water

Bristol Water

Review of an action plan to enhance the approach to Ofwat’s Resilience in the Round

Anaklia

Anaklia

Evidencing the commercial vision to deliver a commercially attractive, climate-resilient city

Meridian Water

Meridian Water

Strategic advice in support of sustainability visioning and data integration

City Finance lab – Norway

City Finance lab – Norway

Technical expertise to develop finance solutions for green urban projects

Hunter Water

Hunter Water

Using agent-based modelling to analyse the potential for waste-to-energy from water

Silver Access – Capstone project

Silver Access – Capstone project

Data and place based access for & co-created with, local at risk groups

URGED for Scottish Canals

URGED for Scottish Canals

Decision-support tool for managing flood risk to infrastructure using satellite data

Future Cities Africa

Future Cities Africa

Using agent-based modelling to plan for water supply and waste water infrastructure

The healthy city: a futuristic reimagining of the urban economy and built environment

Our new report for Key Cities co-authored with our partners WPI Economics and Nexus Planning, builds an evidence base with clear practical policy and action steps as well as a compelling vision for the future of our cities.

Why we work the way we work

Holding space using the natural learning cycle

Systems solutions to systemic challenges

A phased approach to working with places to improve prosperity, health and wellbeing and climate resilience. We love working alongside partners to co-create bold and practical steps to shape a better future for all.

An inclusive approach that supports positive impact at scale

We champion an open model that is built on multidisciplinary, cross-sector collaborations.

This approach encourages the co-creation and exponential growth of “collaborative advantage”, which translates into growing access to networks, expertise, resources, and learnings. All of which, are key to the successful co-design, implementation and rapid scale-up of systemic solutions.

The exponential challenges we face to deliver the SDGs demand exponential solutions. Incremental approaches, while important, are no longer sufficient.

This is why it is more important than ever before to get behind breakthrough innovators like the Resilience Brokers and support positive impact at scale, driven by new ways of thinking, disruptive technologies and relevant business models.

John Elkington

Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Pollinator, Volans

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