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.
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 certain serious future impact of climate change, we have been much slower to...
Friction free collaboration in remote working organisations
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...
Local Authorities declare a climate emergency. Now what?
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...
Warmest seasons greetings and a Happy New Year from all of us at Resilience Brokers
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...
Organisational evolution and team structure update
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...
Portable Zoom meeting / webinar kit
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...
Making City-Region Resilience Affordable and Practical
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...
Triggering a “great mobilisation” to deliver the Global Goals
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...
New Urban Agenda Implementation: Coordinating science to support the move from knowledge to systems health action
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. . . ....