In early autumn, Resilience Brokers organized a Lightning Lab knowledge-sharing session as part of the ACT on NBS project of EIT Climate-KIC with Philippe Chagnon, town director general of administration and coordinator of Agenda 2030 for Longvic in France. Philippe...
In this post I would like to explore the existence of climate denialist groups and why they may appear to be at loggerheads with science. Recognising the ‘Community Empowerment’ theme at COP26, it is important to remind ourselves that such a voice cannot be ignored or...
Dear Friends, We hope this finds you in good health. It is a pleasure to share our latest newsletter with topics that we think will be of interest to you. The Resilience Brokers team are excited about working collaboratively towards fairer, healthier, more...
Organisations; Leadership; Systems work. It’s been the challenge and one of the rewards of my life to lead the Resilience Brokers over the last two and a half years. But let’s face it, we’ve each, in one way or another faced major changes that have affected our...
Many local governments in the UK and globally have declared a climate emergency, and some are exploring ways for engaging citizens on just how these policies and measures should be implemented. In this blog, Deliana Renou takes us through a brief history of The Right...
Dear Friends, We hope this finds you in good health. It is a pleasure to share our latest newsletter with topics that we think will be of interest to you. The Resilience Brokers team are excited about working collaboratively towards fairer, healthier, more...
It is a pleasure to share with you the first of our Resilience Brokers newsletters reflecting on some of our accomplishments and happenings we think will be of interest to you.
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 certain serious future impact of climate change, we have been much slower to...
An introduction to a surprisingly friendly world of little apps, bots and zaps Resilience Brokers grew out of the Ecological Sequestration Trust (The Trust), set up as a dispersed organisation. We were born remote. As a charity, this enabled us to keep our overheads...
As we move into the 2020s, more than two thirds of Councils in the UK have now declared climate emergencies1. It is clear, from that famous photo of mayors on stairs2 at the signing of the Paris agreement in 2015, that if national governments and businesses continue...
A year in the life of the Resilience Brokers is never dull. Again, we have experienced the highs and lows of working towards transformational change in regions around the world. In an extraordinary year of climate impacts and records and with a growing resolve to...
Resilience Brokers is a young organisation. We aim to stay young in the sense that we will continue to learn and question our assumptions. We grew out of the Ecological Sequestration Trust and share its vision. We are in the process of renewing our focus. With the aim...
Detailing our new approach to facilitating remote meetings on the move We have a big mission, to help the world’s cities (all of them) achieve the Global Goals for Sustainable Development (all of them). We can’t do it by ourselves, so as brokers we convene the world’s...
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...
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...
This blog post describes our Programme’s Intelligence 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 Integration, Implementation and Investment workstreams. . . ....
This blog post describes our Programme’s Investment 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, Implementation and Integration workstreams. . . ....
This blog post describes our Programme’s Integration 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, Implementation and Investment workstreams. . . ....
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...
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...