by Peter Head | Apr 27, 2020 | News
COViD-19 and Climate Change – A systems problem requiring a systems solution I am writing this from home in the middle of the COViD 19 crisis. A lot of the world’s normal, day-to-day activity has rightly shut down to protect vulnerable populations, and yet, facing the... 
by Peter Head | May 16, 2019 | News
New evidence, best practice and recommendations to help city regions implement resilience strategies and move toward the global goals in a practical, smart and efficient way that attracts private capital. Background Resilience Brokers has been working with city... 
by Peter Head | Mar 21, 2018 | News
At the recent World Urban Forum 9, I attended a great session on urban science networks chaired by Genie Birch. During the session, a very important point was raised by Axel Baeumler–Senior Infrastructure Economist working at the World Bank. Axel brought up the issue... 
by Peter Head | Feb 6, 2018 | News
This blog post describes our Programme’s Implementation workstream and it is part of a series of four published by our team as we present our work at the World Urban Forum (WUF9). The other pieces cover the Intelligence, Investment and Integration workstreams. The... 
by Peter Head | Oct 31, 2017 | News
The Global Goals, Cities and Human Settlements The 2015 and 2016 agreements establishing the Global Goals, Sendai Framework and Paris Agreement commitments to tackle climate change, mark a historic moment and opportunity for transformational change. There is wide... 
by Peter Head | Oct 17, 2017 | News
In August this year 50 million people, that is 1 in 150 of people on the planet, were seriously affected and displaced by flooding across the Caribbean, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and right across Asia. Most of these people were already living in conditions of... 
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