Leading for Resilience | Episode 4: Dr. Debra Roberts on ticking clocks and connecting the dots
Dr Debra Roberts issues a passionate call for knowledge brokers to help bring climate scientists closer to decision-makers in business and government.
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Your Daily COPpuccino – Episode 10: Dr Juliet Mian
Addis Ababa Water Resilience Profile (CWRA)
The Addis Ababa Water Resilience Profile represents an opportunity to continue regional efforts to build resilience capacity and explore strategies, through multiple lenses, to improve the water security of the region.
Your Daily COPpuccino: Episode 7
In the seventh episode, Peter talks to Dr Debra Roberts, Head of Sustainable and Resilient Initiatives at eThekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa & Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group 2.
Your Daily COPpuccino – Episode 7: Debra Roberts
Your Daily COPpuccino – Episode 4: Wanjira Mathai
Your Daily COPpuccino: Episode 4
In the fourth episode, Peter talks to Wanjira Mathai, Africa Director at the World Resources Institute.
Africa Climate Week: Learning from Cape Town Day Zero – discussion on urban water resilience
Africa Climate Week kicked off with a Sunday conversation about urban water resilience with Peter Willis and Martin Shouler, behind two major initiatives connected by the City of Cape Town’s Day Zero water crisis.
Africa Climate Week: Learning from Cape Town Day Zero – urban water resilience insights for cities
Seizing South Africa’s Urban Opportunity
Savina Carluccio, Head of Guidance, Tools and Standards at The Resilience Shift, moderated a discussion on urban opportunities for South Africa as part of Africa Cities and Built Environment Day.
Africa Cities and Built Environment Day
On 28 July, ICLEI Africa, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Coalition for Urban Transitions (CUT) came together for Africa Cities and Built Environment Day. Held under the banner of Race to Resilience, the day included three sessions that showcased groundbreaking action aimed at building resilience and fostering adaptation in Africa. The Resilience Shift was pleased to take part in the day’s events and contribute to this important discussion.
Massive collaboration needed to fill African engineering skills gap
The latest leg of the 13th Brunel Lecture series discusses the urgent need to train and retain engineers, particularly to deal with the climate emergency.
Brunel International Lecture tour focuses on Africa
Join Resilience Shift CEO Seth Schultz for the next lecture in the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Brunel International Lecture series where the focus will be on Africa
City Characterisation Report: Addis Ababa
This report is part of the African Urban Water Resilience Initiative and supports pathways towards urban water resilience in post COVID-19 recovery.
WFEO climate stories: Kenya
Kenya has experienced an increase in droughts and floods in the last few years due to the effects of climate change. WFEO Engineering and the Environment committee member Christine Adongo Ogut looks at how climate change is affecting Kenya, and what is being done to reduce carbon emissions in the latest WFEO climate stories blog curated by ICE.
Changing your water usage at home can help build urban water resilience
Building water resilience involves everyone in the community. Martin Shouler introduces us to the 50L Home Coalition tackling urban water resilience through reducing demand for domestic water, and inspired by Cape Town Day Zero’s demand reduction.
Seizing the Urban Opportunity – report launched
The new report, Seizing the Urban Opportunity, supported by The Resilience Shift, demonstrates through the lens of six of the world’s largest economies – China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa – how national governments have a central role to play in unlocking the enormous potential of cities.
Engineers called to drive Middle East’s move to net-zero carbon at Region’s Brunel lecture
ICE’s Brunel Lecture series highlighted the Middle East region’s move towards net zero infrastructure. Dr Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, cabinet member and minister of climate change and environment of the United Arab Emirates, said that the shift to green building was very much needed in the region, and it was up to engineers to drive it.
Addis Ababa workshops kick off focus on urban water resilience for Africa
The next steps for the adoption of the City Water Resilience Approach (CWRA) start as 40 participants join workshops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to engage city stakeholders in assessing the water resilience risks the City faces.