As COP26 brings together national and international negotiators to progress their countries’ commitments on climate action, the non-state-actor community is stepping up to take action on resilience and adaptation. The COP Resilience Hub managing partners — the Global Resilience Partnership, the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the Atlantic Council…

We know that climate change is here now (IPCC) and resilience has been rising up the agenda as the world has tackled the impacts of the COVID pandemic and increasing weather-related events (WMO). The Resilience Shift CEO, Seth Schultz, calls critical infrastructure resilience “an insurance policy for humankind’s future”. The…

The Resilience Shift is delighted to be supporting the launch of the COP Resilience Hub that will put the focus on resilience and adaptation at COP26. …

A new awards programme and showcase, launched by Wood and The Resilience Shift, will share inspiring examples of resilient infrastructure and the pioneering teams behind them who chose to do things differently. All facets of society urgently need to build asset and infrastructure resilience to climate change and other uncertainties…

This blog is part of a series curated by The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) where World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) committee members provide a snapshot of climate change impacts and solutions in their part of the world. In this update Lylian Coelho Ferreira, a member of the WFEO…

This blog is part of a series curated by The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) where World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO) committee members provide a snapshot of climate change impacts and solutions in their part of the world. Here Darrel Danyluk, a previous chair of the WFEO Committee on…

The Resilience Shift talks to Dr Murali Chandrashekaran about why people do the things they do, and the need for a human-centred approach to resilience — along with solid data to support it. It’s rare that you meet some who is equally at home with engineering, statistics, social psychology, and…

Committee members of the World Federation of Engineering give an overview of how climate change is affecting their part of the world, what’s being done to reduce carbon emissions and how engineers can play a vital role. This blog is part of a series curated by The Institution of Civil…

Committee members of the World Federation of Engineering give an overview of how climate change is affecting their part of the world, what’s being done to reduce carbon emissions and how engineers can play a vital role. This blog, curated by The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is the first…