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This World Engineering Day, we at the Engineering Leadership Group (ELG) are delighted to launch the ELG Manifesto. The ELG seeks to close the critical gap between the engineering and built environment community and those setting global policy on infrastructure resilience and sustainability. By bringing together organizations with a commitment to offering expertise to inform policy …

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01 March 2023 – Resilience Rising is delighted to announce the appointment of Tom Lewis, PE, JD to the Board of Directors.  Tom Lewis is a national and international consultant and business leader who advises global organizations promoting sustainable and resilient infrastructure and technologies, environmental stewardship, emergency management, disaster preparedness and recovery, and climate adaptation …

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Over the course of two weeks at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the Resilience Rising Consortium, including the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI) and Resilience First, worked alongside key partners and changemakers in the climate and resilience space to drive the resilience agenda at COP. Learn more about the sessions we led and participated …

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 Launch of New Series of Scientific Reports to Inform & Increase Urban Climate Action  The Summary for Urban Policymakers is a three-volume companion series to the IPCC AR6 reports to catalyze cross-sectoral city-scale action  Sharm El-Sheikh (November 11, 2022) – Today, the Summary for Urban Policymakers (SUP) launched a three-volume series of scientific reports to …

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The Maritime Resilience Breakthroughs Lab: Resilience4Ports is the first Innovation Lab launched by Resilience Rising, tapping into its global, multi-sector consortium of policymakers, engineers, businesses, financiers, and infrastructure owners and operators. The Resilience4Ports Lab will reinforce ports as a leading global example of a just and equitable, net-zero transition that prioritizes and effectively implements resilience. At COP27 …

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3 October 2022 – Resilience Rising and Lloyd’s Register Foundation are collaborating on a new cornerstone programme that will harness the World Risk Poll’s data and insights collected from over 125,000 people in 121 countries to improve the global understanding of risk, resilience, and decision-making. The world faces unprecedented levels of uncertainty and risk. How …

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By Seth Schultz, CEO of Resilience Rising Next week, world leaders and experts will come together at Climate Week NYC to raise ambition and drive urgent climate action. The climate crisis is vast, multi-faceted and progressing rapidly, but there is one thing that must underpin all climate solutions – resilience.   As the Official Resilience Partner …

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PRESS RELEASE originally posted on Business Wire. 12 September 2022 – Resilience First is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Global Executive Director, Martyn Link, who takes up the leadership of the world’s largest network connecting businesses and communities in pursuit of resilience. Effective 1 September 2022, Martyn will help ensure the delivery …

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PRESS RELEASE Resilience Rising signs multiyear, multi-million dollar strategic partnership agreement with global sustainable development consultancy, Arup LONDON, UK (18 JULY 2022) Resilience Rising, a global nonprofit consortium working together to accelerate a safe and resilient future for all, has entered into a three-year, multi-million dollar strategic partnership agreement with global sustainable development consultancy, Arup. …

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For five years The Resilience Shift has been a go-to source for high quality and influential advice on all matters related to the resilience of infrastructure systems. The Resilience Shift’s ‘Five Year Review – A celebration’ publication outlines the impact this work has had on infrastructure, engineering and climate change adaptation.  Many of the insights and initiatives showcased in the report …

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We are delighted to have launched the Infrastructure Pathways initiative at COP26 this week alongside the International Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure and Arup. Infrastructure Pathways aims to develop a clear and consistent framework of existing guidance that practitioners can use to embed climate resilience within infrastructure.