SEI – Stockholm Environment Institute’s Post

Still feeling super grateful for this opportunity. To get more insight on the project and a hear a few words from my colleagues, check out this blog post: https://lnkd.in/gSHHetJ4

#Empowering Communities 🎑 : Advancing #Justice and #Equity in Climate-Water Research": Our contributions to NSS National Conference  ‘Innovation, Implementation, and Workforce Development for Sustainability’ #Seattle #USA 2024 University of Washington reflect on this point https://lnkd.in/gsXQkrVn https://lnkd.in/gwQhjv3Q The first talk : McMaster University Martha Cassidy-Neumiller, MA, PhD Candidate Gail Krantzberg Addressing the '#ComplexLoop': #HydroDiplomacy and Integrative Adaptations in the Lake Chad and Congo Basins and acknowledges how the region face complex interplay of water stress, migration, conflict, and climate change. Despite abundant natural resources, the regions, including #LakeVictoria transboundary region grapple with socio-political challenges exacerbated by the climate crisis, severely impacting indigenous and pastoral communities. Disasters intensify disruption of production systems, cause loss of livelihoods, trigger human migration and conflicts. Adaptation strategies that integrate regional agenda through cooperation-focused arrangements could be a win-win solution. Fostering an inclusive approach engaging all stakeholders, particularly vulnerable communities in #crossborder regions, can advance just and resilient outcomes in the face of escalating climate challenges. We will show two projects that have /are addressing these challenges United Nations University collaborates with Government of Canada funded initiatives to steer #resilience :https://lnkd.in/d2iF79Sc https://lnkd.in/g-fWMVXV The 🗺 second talk McMaster University @UniveritySãoPaulo (https://www5.usp.br/) Advancing Methodological #Justice and #Equity in #Climate and #Water 🚤 Research: Innovations and Pathways for Sustainable Futures 🏖 : For the past ten years, with collagues from other regions and geographies’ our research on methodological justice in the climate-water nexus has emphasized enhancing outcomes through data diversification and democratization. We pioneered four key innovation pathways: 🔈 climate justice (JEDI), 🔈 social-ecological systems (SES), 🔈 adaptive co-management of research (ACMR), and 🔈 co-creation of Indigenous Water Quality Tools (https://lnkd.in/g7bX-4Tg) to empower stakeholders by sharing power in design and methodology, fostering agency, and promoting equitable strategies collaborative networks like GlobalWaterFutures exemplify these efforts, integrating traditional knowledge with technology to address water security challenges and overcome conventional top-down research paradigms with inclusive practices and enhance relevance and impact of research for sustainable adaptation.

#news The European Heritage Label Bureau - EHL Bureau announces substantial funding for 10 collaborative projects across Europe's most significant heritage sites. Key Focus Areas: 🔸 Youth engagement initiatives 🔸 Digital transformation 🔸 Climate action & sustainability 🔸 European citizenship promotion 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dTBGumx7

In London working with partners to mobilise capital to implement the global goals, leave no-one behind and deliver health for all. London is the financial capital of the world 🌏🌍🌎 It’s important we highlight the challenges and OPPORTUNITIES for health and climate during London Climate Action Week The cost of achieving the ambitious sustainable development targets is estimated at between $5.4 and $6.4 trillion per year between now and 2030 ref: UN The global cost of climate change damage is estimated to be between $1.7 trillion and $3.1 trillion per year by 2050. This includes the cost of damage to infrastructure, property, agriculture, and human health. This cost is expected to increase over time as the impacts of climate change become more severe. Research shows that 3.6 billion people already live in areas highly susceptible to climate change. Ref: WHO 75% of the Infrastructure That Will Exist in 2050 Doesn’t Exist Today. From transportation to flood protection, much of the world’s infrastructure will be built or overhauled in the coming decades. Ref: ICLEI Up to 3.5 billion people – almost half the world's population lack basic access to healthcare. Small Island Developing States (SIDS) of the Pacific – individually experience significant challenges in gaining access to Climate related finance. Vanuatu alone has $1.3 Billion of fully costed climate mitigation and adaptation projects contained in its Nationally Determined Contributions document presented to the UN. Many of these are suitable for private investment Commonwealth Pacific Climate Fund World Health Service is offering a way to invest in creating a sustainable model of healthcare and deliver health for all, leaving no-one behind. The investment will help to build out the World Health Innovation Summit CIC model which is based on combining human, social, and structural capital by creating a knowledge transfer platform that exists to support the health economies around the world. #LondonClimateWeek #LCAW #HealthForAll #SDGs #WHIS

🚀 Introducing the #P2RClimateToolbox: your gateway to building resilience!  This platform developed under the Pathways2Resilience project provides stakeholders with the methodologies and resources needed to design and implement effective resilience strategies tailored to local challenges. Whether you’re tackling climate risks, urban resilience, or multi-hazard planning, the #P2RClimateToolbox offers practical, science-based solutions to drive sustainable impact. 👉 Explore the toolbox: https://lnkd.in/eQ-f_uqJ #Resilience #ClimateAction #Pathways2Resilience LGI Sustainable Innovation Climate-KIC ERRIN ICLEI Europe International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) IIED Europe Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre Regions4 PPMI | Part of the Verian Group Athens University of Economics and Business Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB) Paul Watkiss Associates TECNALIA Research & Innovation Deltares European Environment Agency

🌊🏝 How is UNSW building resilience against sea level rise in the Asia Pacific? Answer: By exchanging knowledge and potential solutions uncovered by our university with key partners, like the United Nations. UNSW recently hosted a side event at the United Nations Summit of the Future, co-convened with United Nations Global Pulse Asia Pacific, where Dr. Andrew Dansie and Ms. Angelique Pouponneau presented insights about rising sea levels from their innovative, data-based, and community-driven research. Read more about the event, as well as Project Halophyte and the Global Ocean Accounts Partnership (GOAP), in the article below. Many thanks to Tri Tharyat, Senivasa Waqairamasi, Jorge Moreira da Silva, Rebecca Bryant, Ayaka Suzuki, Aarti Holla-Maini, Andrew Dansie, Angelique Pouponneau, and Ahmed Khamis El Saeed for their contributions to the event and accompanying article. #OurCommonFuture #SummitOfTheFuture #ClimateAction #DataForGood #SeaLevelRise #NatureBasedSolutions #SustainableDevelopment

Processes that are serious about building #trust #empathy #respect #relationship and #partnerships over time are highly underestimated in professional worlds where we fight for funding, recognition, limelight and mostly highly transactional ways, rules, procedures and processes are the norm. This also pertains to the competition between quick wins/ short-term presentable outputs and long-term but rocky roads to true shifts and transformations. Let's not only go for the easy wins and the marketable shiny packaging! I am excited to be able to work with colleagues from International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, African Centre for Technology Studies and PlanAdapt to bring this to the forefront. Both, challenging the software and the hardware of collaboration and partnerships. Often we need to change the way 'how' we do things and not only the 'what'. Thanks for this journey together! Furthermore, I believe that entire organisations need to be coordinated, managed and structured differently. PlanAdapt is a guinea pig in that sense. Have a look how we try to make it the DNA instead of a sugarcoating of an organisation: https://lnkd.in/dvT9DF7n Please do get in touch if you share this view! Bruce Currie-Alder Heidi Braun Joel Onyango Manuela Di Mauro Prof. Tom Ogada Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar Alannah Hofemeier Carys Richards Tamara Nyirenda Catherine Fisher #climateaction #climateresilience #climaterisk #socialinnovation #socialentrepreneurship #CLimateAdaptationREsilience

Exciting news regarding one of the fields of the City Institute – the Green Deal! Another Eurointegration endeavor of the City Institute has been successfully funded under the Interreg Europe program. The REFOCUS project is designed within a consortium involving 10 partners from 6 EU countries and 1 candidate country for EU accession. It aims to exchange insights and experiences in sustainable urban mobility and climate neutrality. As part of this collaboration, we plan to work extensively on policies that will promote the resilience of the transportation system and road safety in the city. For more detailed information, please follow the link: https://lnkd.in/ginVAi72 In addition, this project synergizes with our ongoing initiatives, which include: - SPARCS (Horizon 2020 program) - DISTENDER (Horizon Europe program) - Support DHC (LIFE program) - U-CAN (Horizon Europe program) Furthermore, our team is in the process of finalizing a grant agreement for the Enable DHC project and eagerly awaits updates on funding for several other projects. Simultaneously, we are actively engaged in twinning programs such as SCALE-UP, REALLOCATE, and DivAirCity to explore innovative solutions and initiatives. There are many opportunities, but keeping up with everything can be challenging. Therefore, we invite organizations interested in developing innovative practices for cities within EU programs to collaborate with us.

Challenges around incorporating local perspectives in climate adaptation policy in vulnerable contexts continue to headline debates around human mobility in the context of climate change. To make empirical findings more accessible to a broader audience, I am delighted to share this output from my ongoing research in this co-authored policy brief published in the latest #CMARN's Insights Policy Briefs. Together with Lothar Smith 🟥, Jeroen Warner, and Arnoud Lagendijk, we examined governance responses to climate mobility in Africa’s vulnerable settings. Key insights: We argued for acknowledging locally led voices in developing the policy framework that addresses human mobility in Africa’s climate-sensitive settings. Rethinking the socio-processes results in top-down approaches to governing human mobility by facilitating multi-stakeholder partnerships that engage local communities in vulnerable contexts. The brief highlights the critical role of local knowledge in providing insights that improve national governments' strategic policies on climate mobility, such as NAPs.    Lastly, the brief draws attention to recognizing different social groups to provide context-specific insights that inform the development of inclusive policy that improves climate adaptation in at-risk communities. Find out more on our brief👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/dt9N4yWD I look forward to your thoughts on the brief and its findings. Feel free to get in touch if you find any aspect exciting or want to further the conversation. Follow this link to access all the #CMARN’s published briefs 👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/etdrFE-y Many thanks to Tamara Woods and Oluwatoyin Adejonwo, PhD for their contributions. #Locally-led Initiatives #ClimateMobility #Vulnerability #ClimateAdaptation Radboud University Nijmegen School of Management / Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen

One of our roles, as academics, is to engage with policymakers on insights emerging out of our research, also to help them reframe their orientation where necessary. Climate adaption and mobility responses in vulnerable situations is one such topic, and Joseph Inyama's ongoing PhD research is revealing some important considerations, including the need to take local voices seriously in developing policy frameworks. Please see Joseph's announcement below for more details and a link.