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Resilience—the capacity to absorb stress and maintain function
Resilience insights What exactly is resilience Rebuilding with resilience Conceptualizing Resilience
Resource guide to resilience Vol 1 Vol 2 Domains of resilience for complex interconnected systems
Building resilience to natural disasters and major economic crises
Resilience investment 'opportunity' for private sector Can resilience go digital?
To build resilience, listen to people's needs Applying resilience thinking in BRACED
Guidance to the resilience dividend model How do we start putting a price on resilience?
Resilience - the big picture: top themes and trends How civil institutions build resilience
How businesses use data to outsmart Nature's wrath Boosting relience to modern day threats
Adapting and reacting to measure an extreme event: a...
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Mission
The fledgling iCREST education initiative is dedicated to building an Earth resilience literacy among high schoolers worldwide. The goal is to enable students to examine sustainability and resilience choices using data and models, and then, empowered with narrative and storytelling skills, become effective advocates for sensible solutions. iCREST is the initiative of the International Centre for Earth Simulation, a Swiss foundation embracing resilience, sustainability, ecology, and holistic modeling. The iCREST Education Advisory Board (EAB - see below) brings a wide range of expertise to the enterprise. Through its multipronged focus, iCREST aims to enable its youthful participants to contribute to community wellbeing and grow to be wise, civically engaged adults.
Overview
iCREST is aiming to provide a web-based system that allows students to do research to answer the question "What do data and model...
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This work explores the implications of a potential international climate agreement on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.1 Governments are due to negotiate a climate agreement at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP21) in Paris, France at the end of 2015. The impact of the climate agreement on global development by 2030 will be significant and, although it is unlikely to significantly impact global warming or the frequency and severity of weather-related disasters in the period up to 2030, it will play a major role thereafter.
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The world cannot afford to perpetuate disconnect between disaster risk reduction, sustainable development and climate change. Disaster risk and climate change are felt differently by different countries and communities.
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Titled Accelerating Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Development, the Africa Climate Business Plan will be presented at COP21, the global climate talks in Paris, on November 30. It lays out measures to boost the resilience of the continent’s assets – its people, land, water, and cities - as well as other moves including boosting renewable energy and strengthening early warning systems.
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The UN climate talks in Paris have ended with an agreement between 195 countries to tackle global warming. The climate deal is at once both historic, important – and inadequate. From whether it is enough to avoid dangerous climate change to unexpected wins for vulnerable nations, here are five things to help understand what was just agreed at COP21.
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