Location: International

C40 Knowledge Hub- Adapting to Climate Change Library

The C40 Knowledge Hub is a public online library and resource platform collating practical, tried-and-tested information and tools for climate action and adaptation. It provides resources like research, case studies, implementation guides, policy briefs, and data insights on various urban climate sectors, including climate adaptation planning. The C40 Knowledge Hub rounds up what cities should…
Global Center on Adaptation – Stories of Resilience

The Global Center on Adaptation’s report ‘Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice’ redefines true progress as a measure of the systems transformed over outputs delivered. The annual publication draws on global examples and lessons on inclusive funding, philanthropy, and justice, it underscores how aligning local priorities with national governance and finance can drive…
‘We can’t afford to wait’: a Cornish town faces climate threat head on

After seeing an image of the projected high tide in 2050, the people of Bude in Cornwall swung into action to adapt to climate change. If nothing is done by 2050, their landmarks like the surf life-saving club, Bude seawater swimming pool, and many cafes businesses and carparks, will all be gone. Bude, rather than…
Ministry of Imagination – Rob Hopkins

Since 2020, the fortnightly ‘From What If to What Next’ podcast has invited two guests to time travel into the 2030 that resulted from our doing absolutely everything we could possibly have done, and to describe that world to the listeners. In late March 2024, the podcast stopped at its 100th episode, but it remains…
99% Invisible – Not Built For This

This is a series about climate change and how we prepare for the extremely bumpy ride ahead of us. Because right now we’re all living in a world that was just Not Built for This. This podcast is a 6-part mini-series from 99% Invisible. Listen wherever you get your podcasts… and check it out here:https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UBKPmt3PnFnWP17rSG3jh?si=h_3ERNqmQFiCDVUyLDAXVg&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A37i9dQZF1FgnTBfUlzkeKt&nd=1&dlsi=0538f3448fdd440e
ClimateReady Podcast – BUA Knowledge Platform

The ClimateReady Podcast features interviews and segments on emerging trends in the intersection of climate and water. Experts in policy, engineering, finance, and other sectors provide cutting-edge perspectives and narratives on climate adaptation challenges and opportunities. Seasons 1–3 each contain ten episodes. A special mini-series focusing on UNFCCC COP26 was released from October through December…
America Adapts – the Climate Change Podcast

The America Adapts podcast explores the challenges presented by adapting to climate change, the global movement that has begun to drive change, and the approaches that are already working. America Adapts is dedicated to finding and elevating the voices of pioneers in adaptation who are already making a substantial impact on society and the environment.…
Resources for community-led disaster response and resilience initiatives – Shareable

This site collates all of Shareables resources on climate resilience – including its own how-tos, other resilience handbooks, disaster response guides, and resources on just recoveries and futures. Check it out here:https://www.shareable.net/resources-for-community-resilience-and-collective-disaster-response/
20 lessons from The Response: How communities are changed by disasters

What effect do natural and other disasters have on the underlying culture of a community? This was the driving question that led to the development of Shareable’s The Response project three years ago. Documenting stories from NYC, California, Mexico City, Puerto Rico, Japan, London and more, here are 20 lessons Shareable found in regards to…
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief – US

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a US network of eco-activists, social justice activists, global justice activists, street medics, herbalists, permaculturalists, mutual aid organisers, black liberation organisers, community organisers, and others who are actively organising around supporting disaster survivors in a spirit of mutual aid and solidarity. It is a decentralised network across the so called…
Resilience Strategies – Climate Resilience Project

This directory of resources has useful strategies for communities seeking greater adaptive capacity. Its categories include: collective care, community adaptation, cultural strategy, ecological restoration, economic regeneration, people power and relationship repair. Strategies include: energy efficiency, community resilience mapping, disaster collectivism, community composting, urban farming, urban cooling, story-based strategies, rights of nature, participatory budgeting, mutual aid,…
Regional Hubs – The Resilience Hub

The Resilience Hub hosts Regional Resilience Hubs to ensure that the best practices and perspectives of those most affected by the climate crisis are amplified and increasingly drive the agenda at COP. Regional Resilience Hubs play a central role in elucidating and communicating regional priorities, actions, solutions and challenges to be amplified at the global…
The Resilience Hub

The Resilience Hub connects and inspires people across business, civil society, academia and government to collaborate and scale up action that builds resilience to the impact of climate change and makes communities around the world safer, healthier and more just.With the urgency of the climate crisis, their mission remains the same: to accelerate ambition, action,…
Gender in climate action training pack: A resource for practitioners – CDKN

CDKN has developed a pack of presentations and exercises for facilitators to use in training settings, to help climate and development professionals to integrate gender perspectives into climate projects and programmes. Specifically, the training aims to help participants: Check the pack out here:https://cdkn.org/resource/resource-gender-in-climate-action-training-pack-a-resource-for-practitioners
Adaptation Scotland – Adaptation Resources

This site provides tools and resources for a climate resilient and healthy community, with a particular focus on Scotland, but applicable to all adaptation contexts. From academic research at the University of Glasgow, to creating a bespoke climate story at the Outer Hebrides, Scotland is developing its climate adaptative capacities. Check out the different case…
Resiliency Maps

This project aims to put local maps detailing potential hazards as well shelter zones in the hands of San Francisco residents. The maps are made with OpenStreetMap and available offline. The creators hope that these community-driven, open-source maps can be made for neighbourhoods across the city and beyond. They are generated through user contribution. Check…
5 Climate Tech Tools to Build Community Resilience – APA

This article is the first in the “Tech Tools” series. It explores a handful of recent climate change and resilience datasets and tools, curated by members of APA’s Technology Division. These include risk maps, adaptation databases, and geo hazard evaluation tools. Check them out here:https://www.planning.org/planning/2023/winter/5-climate-tech-tools-to-build-community-resilience/
CoastSnap – Community Beach Monitoring

CoastSnap is a global citizen science project to capture our changing coastlines. No matter where you are in the world, if you have a smartphone and an interest in the coast, they welcome you to participate!CoastSnap relies on repeat photos at the same location to track how the coast is changing over time due to…
Los Angeles Community Resilience Mapping Tool – Sahana Foundation

This is an initiative within the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) project whose aim is to engage community-based organisations in providing leadership and partnership to promote community resilience in the face of public health emergencies such as pandemics and disasters. The tool will help communities to collect their own data on vulnerability, hazards…
Participatory Asset Mapping – Community Research Lab

This toolbox presents research concepts, methods, and tools through topical guides and toolkits that enable communities to undertake Participatory Mapping – the process of creating a tangible display of the people, places and experiences that make up a community, through community members themselves identifying them on a map. This exercise is particularly important in developing…
Steps to Resilience – US Climate Resilience Toolkit

The Steps to Resilience framework encompasses the team building, data gathering, and decision-making it takes for a local climate champion and a team of engaged community members to enhance their resilience to climate-related impacts. The framework is aligned with, and inclusive of, other efforts to reduce risk through adaptation. Check it out here:https://toolkit.climate.gov/overview-steps
Play Illuminate, the Climate change simulation game

Illuminate is an educational simulation game where you learn about the impacts of climate change and explore ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and respond to climate risks. The Games Institute, in partnership with the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) at the University of Waterloo and an interdisciplinary team of students, staff and…
Climate Action Simulation – Climate Interactive

The Climate Action Simulation is a highly interactive, role-playing game for groups to explore the different stakeholders and solutions that need to come together to take action on climate change. It is framed by the En-ROADS simulator, which allows participants to rapidly assess the impacts of different solutions to climate change—like energy supply subsidies, energy…
SMHI – Climate Adaptation Game

In the Climate Adaptation Game, you make the city Weatherton more resilient to extreme weather. You learn more about how climate change affects our society and find solutions to deal with it. It gives you practice in grasping complex contexts, enhances your analytical skills and capability to solve problems. The game is available for free,…
Climate Board Games

This list, put together by Matthew Ballew, collates environmental and climate related board games that players can engage with to simulate climate disaster, and use as fun educational tools for kids. Check out the list here:https://matthewtballew.com/climategames/
Marae-opoly: supporting localised Māori climate adaptation decisions with serious games in Aotearoa New Zealand

Far from being passive and/or static victims of climate change, indigenous peoples are hybridizing knowledge systems, and challenging and negotiating new environmental and social realities to develop their own adaptation options within their own registers of what is place and culture appropriate. Our paper seeks to demonstrate how we, as guests on Māori land, were…
CDKN Climate and Society Game

How would you feel if you faced climate hazards – in someone else’s shoes? How would your age, your physical and mental abilities, your health, the way other people treat you affect how you could respond? What if different members of the community got together to tackle climate-related problems? What would your role be? How…
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) – Dean Spade

This book is THE guide to mutual aid, and it is available free online. It describes mutual aid, critically reflects upon it, and provides lots of useful insight into making mutual aid work for you. Check it out here:https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/dean-spade-mutual-aid
The Future We Choose – Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement’s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero…
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy – Nathan Schneider

Since the financial crash of 2008, the cooperative movement has been coming back with renewed vigor. Everything for Everyone chronicles this economic and social revolution—from taxi cooperatives that are keeping Uber and Lyft at bay, to an outspoken mayor transforming his city in the Deep South, to a fugitive building a fairer version of Bitcoin,…
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence – The Care Collective

The Care Manifesto demands that we must put care at the heart of the state and the economy. A caring government must promote collective joy, not the satisfaction of individual desire. This means the transformation of how we organise work through co-operatives, localism and nationalisation. It proposes the expansion of our understanding of kinship for…
At Risk: Natural hazards, people’s vulnerability and disasters – Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, and Ian Davis

The term ‘natural disaster’ is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase ‘natural disaster’ suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people…
Climate Resilience: How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change – Kylie Flanagan

In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see and act beyond status-quo solutions, Big Tech promises… and everything we’re usually told about how to save the planet. Centering the voices of Native Rights activists, queer liberation ecologists, youth climate-justice organizers, Latinx wilderness activists, and others on the front lines,…
One Small Town – Transforming Our Towns Into Places

One Small Town is a voluntary initiative where people can decide to work together, cooperate and collaborate to uplift their community. Every member contributes 3 hours a week towards the businesses involved, and the community projects initiated by the organisation. With lots of people doing so, this small cooperation turns into a powerful united contribution…
Doughnut Economics Action Lab

This site contains spotlights on Doughnut Economics Action Lab news, tools for taking Doughnut Economics from a radical idea into transformative action, inspiring success stories for Doughnut Economics from abroad, upcoming events, and a map of members from across the globe! Check it out here:https://doughnuteconomics.org/
Resilience Hubs

This website details what resilience hubs are and what they could look like. It provides details on core components, resources, partners, and an opportunity for those viewing to get involved with developing their own hub. Intended to shift power to neighbourhoods and residents, provide opportunities to address root causes of disproportionate exposure and sensitivity to…
Local Futures – Economics of Happiness

Local Futures is a pioneer of the worldwide localisation movement. This site contains a wealth of resources, including films, books, podcasts, blogs, toolkits, webinars and conferences that are helping to build an international movement for systemic change to localisation and more secure futures. Check them out here:https://www.localfutures.org/
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief – Workshop Facilitation Guide

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief provides a guide on how to facilitate workshops in your community surrounding mutual aid and disaster relief. It contains a wide range of exercises and walkthroughs to use. Check it out here:https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MADR-WORKSHOP-FACILITATION-GUIDE-rough-1.pdf
Urban stream in Seoul

This article details the transformation of the Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul, South Korea, which was once covered by a highway. Originally a vital waterway for over 600 years, it had deteriorated into a polluted open sewer by the 1930s. In the 1960s, an elevated highway was built over it, symbolizing modernization but later contributing to…
How China is designing flood-resistant cities

To combat rising sea levels and increased flooding, cities in China are deploying and experimenting with “spongey” infrastructure as a potential solution. The design philosophy is: remove existing pipes and drains to manage rain and stormwater, and implement natural infrastructure like rain gardens and vegetation to absorb water instead. The result? Lush, green, rainforests against…
Resource Hub – Climate and Development Knowledge Network

This resource hub, provided by the Climate & Development Knowledge Network, contains a huge amount of resources on international progress towards climate adaptation. Users can filter by themes including water, food security, and forests, and by country, to see a wealth of ways climate change is being tackled on the world stage. Check out the…
Pigeonpea in the mix as search begins for more heat tolerant crops

This article details research that has begun with the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) and ANU into the development of heat-tolerant crop genetics, and identifying what it is that makes crops able to survive, grow and continue to produce under high-temperature conditions. Pigeonpea is a potential crop that may be added to the mix…
US – Climate Resilience Project – Urban Cooling

A toolkit of design, planning, and community care strategies designed to ameliorate the effects of the urban heat island effect and keep city residents cool and safe through extreme heat events. This site collates US based initiatives helping create urban cooling, so users can navigate the diversity of initiatives seeking to help neighbourhoods better withstand…
GUIDE: Heat action plans – Scaling up India’s ambition to protect the climate-vulnerable

This CDKN Guide presents the story of how an action research initiative in a single city in India has evolved into contagious policy action in 17 cities and 11 states, with interest from national leadership. By starting small and learning by doing, heat-wave planning and response has become increasingly ambitious in Ahmedabad, the capital of…
Heat Action Plans and Case Studies

The Global Heat Health Information Network provides a directory of all the Heat Action Plans and related case studies in existence, from Australia, to the Pacific, to Europe! Check out the wealth of knowledge available here:https://ghhin.org/heat-action-plans-and-case-studies/
Waterwheels

Waterwheels are making a comeback but instead of driving the mechanical processes of milling or hammering, they are being used to generate renewable energy and help decarbonise energy systems from the Himalayas and Nepal to Northern Ireland. Instructions to build waterwheels for renewable energy production are even freely available online. Read more about it here:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/17/how-climate-friendly-waterwheels-are-coming-around-again
Shareable – Emergency Battery Network Toolkit

Shareable partnered with People Power Battery Collective to create the Emergency Battery Toolkit to help organisers build strong and effective backup power supplies owned by local communities. This toolkit is based on the work being done by People Power Battery Collective (a project of People Power Solar Cooperative), a self-organised mutual-aid collective in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose purpose…
Neighbourhood Accelerator

This website and service helps communities build connection using a 10-week program. Participants receive personalised guidance on hands-on support throughout the program, mentorship, access to the global network of neighbourhood builders, funding opportunities, and accountability. The site features a map where you can find like-minded individuals nearby, looking to create community! Get in contact and…
Mutual Aid Learning Series Book Recommendations

This list of book recommendations provided by Shareable is a useful tool for those looking to find books on mutual aid how-to, solidarity, and overcoming adversity as a collective. Check out the list here:https://bookshop.org/lists/mutual-aid-learning-series-book-recommendations
Mutual Aid course with Shareable

This series shares skills, tips and advice on building and sustaining mutual aid projects, the basics of their legal, financial and security characteristics, and what mutual aid can look like in action.
How to start a mutual aid network – Shareable

This article by Aaron Fernando shares ideas and steps to establishing your own mutual aid network in your own neighbourhood. It links to https://mutualaidnetwork.org/, a directory of resources regarding creating mutual aid networks. Check the resource out here:https://www.shareable.net/how-to-start-a-mutual-aid-network/
Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network

FAC Net invests in people and in place-based efforts to change relationships with fire. Together, they support leaders and strategic action, develop tools, and create and share approaches to increase wildfire resilience. Improving fire management requires changing our culture, and FAC Net members are leading that change. Get in contact and check it out here:https://fireadaptednetwork.org/
Bushfire Resilience Inc – Resource Hub

At this link, you can find a wealth of resources provided by the BRI, including webinars that provide explainers on bushfire, storm or flood insurance, best practices for housing and bushfire risk reduction, and explainers for handling bushfire weather. Check it out here:https://bushfireresilience.org.au/resource-hub/
Developing Community Connections with Asset Mapping

This explainer resource teaches communities how to do Asset Mapping with Connectors – Step 2 in an Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) process that helps people connect their strengths to create new opportunities for living well where periodic wildland fires are expected. Check it out here:https://fireadaptednetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ABCD-2-AssetMappingWithConnectors.pdf
Emergency Leaders for Climate Action – Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan

The Australian Bushfire and Climate Plan is the culmination of the 2020 National Bushfire and Climate Summit, which brought together hundreds of participants from across the country, and the world, to share their experiences, and to formulate recommendations to address the worsening risk of devastating bushfires fuelled by climate change. It details Response, Readiness and…