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The ORA Community is Growing: A Second year of resilience fellowships announced

The ORA Community is Growing: A Second year of resilience fellowships announced

Dec 21, 2023 | Omega Resilience Awards

The Omega Resilience Awards’ global partners have begun their search for applicants for the second year of the ORA Fellowship. ORA anchor parters in India, Africa, and Latin America are currently seeking applications for the 2024 fellowship year.

‘Nanoplastics’ could be worse than ,microplastics and we know almost nothing about them

Dec 17, 2023 | Environment

by Mirjam Guesgen in Vice….”From the public point of view, this could be the next asbestos.”

500+ pages, 200+ researchers: Global Tipping Points Report delivers comprehensive assessment of tipping point risks and societal opportunities

Dec 17, 2023 | Environment

by T.M. Lenton, et al in Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research…Tipping points pose some of the biggest risks to our planet’s life-support systems and the stability of our societies. In an unprecedented effort by the scientific community, researchers have now published a comprehensive report on Earth system tipping points and their potential impacts and opportunities for societal change. More than 200 scientists from around the world contributed to the ‘Global Tipping Points Report’. The report with more than 500 pages provides an authoritative guide to the state of knowledge on tipping points, explores opportunities for accelerating much needed transformations, and outlines options for a new governance of tipping point risks and opportunities.

Is it too late to keep global warming below 1.5 °C? The challenge in 7 charts

Dec 17, 2023 | Environment

by Jeff Tollefson in Nature…Chances are rapidly disappearing to limit Earth’s temperature rise to the globally agreed mark, but researchers say there are some positive signs of progress.

As water becomes a weapon of war, we must focus on cooperation and peace

Dec 17, 2023 | Economy

by Peter Gleick in The Guardian…Record increase in water-related violence shows how urgently we need to reduce these tensions between countries

Russia and Israel lead global surge in attacks on civilian water supplies

Dec 17, 2023 | Economy

by Nina Lakhani in The Guardian…Water-related violence surged to an all-time high in 2022 – driven in large part by Russia’s war in Ukraine and Israeli attacks against Palestinian water resources in the West Bank.

Donella Meadows recommendations for how to dance with and intervene in systems

Dec 17, 2023 | Resilience

Wahl writes……Donella makes the crucially important point that the most transformative and effective leverage points are addressed by acting at the level of paradigm-change, by addressing the culture change that would shift the dominant believes about the system. Even more effective, according to Meadows, is the ability to transcend paradigms and acknowledge the wisdom that diverse, possibly even conflicting perspectives can bring to a situation in full recognition that each paradigm also brings with it, its own limitations and blind spots.

Multisolving: making systems whole, healthy, and sustainable

Dec 17, 2023 | Environment

by Elizabeth R. Sawin, et al, in Stanford Social Innovation Review…Crossing system boundaries to build partnerships and solve shared problems will strengthen communities and build resilience.

A global resilience index: supporting climate adaptation of global infrastructure systems

Dec 17, 2023 | Resilience

by Prof Jim Hall of Oxford University….A new Global Resilience Index, developed by researchers at the Environmental Change Institute, is helping policy makers understand climate risks to global infrastructure systems and plan appropriate investments and interventions.

The ‘flickering’ of Earth systems is warning us: act now, or see our already degraded paradise lost

Dec 17, 2023 | Environment

by George Monbiot in The Guardian…Every hour is now an “if only” moment: offering a better chance of avoiding collapse than the hour that follows. Grim as our time on Earth is, future generations will look back on it as a golden age. A golden age of wildlife, of mild weather, stability, prosperity, of opportunities to act. Our living world is a grey shadow of what it once was, but a vibrant paradise in comparison with what it will be. Unless, unless.

Advancing the conversation around building a resilient future

Dec 17, 2023 | Resilience

Answer from Nathanial in the interview…..Innovation, knowledge and policy are key interlinked areas for GRP to ensure that we advance and strengthen resilience. Embracing resilience encourages innovation in finding new and flexible solutions that can adapt to changing circumstances. This fosters a culture of experimentation and learning, which is essential for addressing complex challenges effectively. A strong scientifically-backed understanding of resilience, including measuring and testing resilience is also fundamental. This includes ensuring that resilience encompasses more than just “bouncing back” to the status quo, but that it also encompasses adaptive and transformative capacities and allows systems to continue to evolve in spite of shocks and stresses.

2023 Executive Summary

Dec 17, 2023 | Environment

from the Executive Summary UNEHS…Today, we are moving perilously close to the brink of multiple risk tipping points. Human actions are behind this rapid and fundamental change to the planet. We are introducing new risks and amplifying existing ones by indiscriminately extracting our water resources, damaging nature and biodiversity, polluting both Earth and space, and destroying our tools and options to deal with disaster risk.

Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?

Dec 16, 2023 | Environment

by Kate Yoder in Grist…Of course, there’s no guarantee that a better system will replace the vulnerable, unequal one after a collapse. “You still have to do the work of putting in the reforms, and having the support of those in power, to be able to actually set and reinforce these kinds of revisions,” Hoyer said. “So I would argue, if that’s the case, let’s just do that without the violence to begin with.”

Rehabilitating Lahaina

Dec 16, 2023 | Environment

by Travis Hartman, et al. in Reuters…After Hawaii’s worst wildfire killed scores of people in August, local and federal agencies are reckoning with the toxic chemicals created when a built environment burns

The world’s top industrial countries are in treacherous waters

Dec 16, 2023 | Environment

by Richard Heinberg in Resilience.org…Whatever is coming will be as historically unique as our present circumstances. The ever-louder rumblings from just over the horizon suggest that, whatever it is, it’s not far off.

Drought in Brazil’s Amazon reveals ancient engravings

Dec 16, 2023 | Environment

in Phys.org…”Unhappily it is now reappearing with the worsening of the drought,” Carneiro said. “Having our rivers back (flooded) and keeping the engravings submerged will help preserve them, even more than our work.”

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