Today, several of the world’s leading climate change scientists came together with city and business leaders, global NGOs and national governments to announce a new initiative, the Summary for Urban Policymakers (SUP) that will present the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments in accessible and targeted summaries that can help inform action at the city scale.
Caroline Field leads The Resilience Shift’s work on resilient energy systems and writes here on energy policy for climate resilience and on varying levels of country preparedness as suggested by The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s Climate Resilience Policy Indicator.
Our strategic partner, Resilience First, the world’s largest resilience business network, is hosting a webinar, in partnership with the Fire Protection Association, to explore the lessons learned for the built environment from the Grenfell Tower Fire.
We are delighted to have collaborated with the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission to host an international round-table on national infrastructure policy. Director of Policy, Giles Stevens said, “Resilience has probably never been more topical.”
The Resilience Shift, with partners Arup and Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) is highlighting urban water resilience and the City Water Resilience Approach at COP 25 through policy briefings and events
Partnering with the Stockholm International Water Institute has delivered significant progress on water resilience and for the wider 2030 agenda.
Resilience Shift Ambassador Fred Boltz has been instrumental in putting water resilience at the heart of global policy in partnership with SIWI and other collaborators.
This report explores the impact of a legislative policy instrument used in the state of Victoria, Australia, and relating to the resilience of critical infrastructure.
A policy symposium was held in Melbourne to explore opportunities and challenges for policy in driving critical infrastructure resilience.
PPPs create the potential for resilience value to be understood and realised by all those involved. This guidance note shares industry insights on the role that infrastructure PPPs play in driving best practice for resilience.
AGWA’s John Matthews talks about influencing global policy, the challenges of water resilience, and the benefits of being fluent in both policy and technical language.
Today’s policy symposium in Melbourne, Australia, is now concluded, with a wealth of valuable discussion about how to incentivise resilience and the role of different policy instruments in enhancing critical infrastructure resilience.
Join us in Melbourne in mid-May to explore the key drivers of best practice for critical infrastructure resilience and the learning from our work on policy and standards.
This report is concerned with the role that public policy instruments, like regulation and standards, can play in embedding resilience in critical infrastructure systems. It provides clarity in the use of key terms including ‘public policy’ and ‘policy instruments’ and highlights early innovations in critical infrastructure resilience policy.
We have appointed two new grantees to our project on incentivising resilience through government policy. This work aims to understand how policy can mainstream best practice in critical infrastructure resilience.
