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  • C40 Knowledge Hub- Adapting to Climate Change Library

    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

    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

    ‘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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 – 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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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 – 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

    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

    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…