Mapping the impact of COVID-19 to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is highlighting opportunities for change and areas for action. Jasper Hilkhuijsen and Tammy Tse to give us their perspective from East Asia and informed by their work in sustainability for the built environment.
Early career water professionals came together across borders to compare resilient water challenges for their own cities, using the City Water Resilience Approach and Cape Town’s reflections on Day Zero.
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
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.
Kara Brussen, an engineer in Arup’s Environment team, reflects on her time at November’s Global Engineering Congress. Stating that the engineering and infrastructure communities should now focus on turning words into action to ensure we deliver the SDGs.
We’re delighted to be attending the Global Engineering Congress’ five days of lively debate, but also contributing to the event that, this year, has the UN SDGs at its core.
Guest blogger Fred Boltz shares the global water and development community’s joint position statement to the UN – a positive step towards driving global policy adoption of resilience across the water agenda as a vehicle for achieving the 2030 Agenda.
