The Resilience Decade

Is your ➲ community resilient to climate changes?

We have worked with dozens of clients in the nonprofit, public, academic government and private sector.

The Resilience Decade

Is your ➲ community resilient to climate changes?

We have worked with dozens of clients in the nonprofit, public, academic government and private sector.

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We work with clients to adapt to climate change, enabling resilience in markets and communities.

As a social enterprise, we provide insight to prevent the avoidable and manage the unpreventable in the era of climate change. We have been pioneers in the climate resilience field for over two decades. Our tools allow leaders to make resilient choices during our engagement and beyond, increasing social equity while mitigating risks.

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Protect

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Nature

  • Our strategy work focuses on equitable resilience success through transformative policy change, infrastructure improvements, and vibrant partnerships. Over a decade ago, we created one of the world’s first resilience strategies and we lead advisory groups, offer training, and perform research for strategy success.

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  • To move from plans to action, communities need funding. We wrote the book on resilient infrastructure finance and work among stakeholders to address funding issues through targeting activities, policy development, resource allocation, and relationship-building.


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  • Sustainability tactics such as waste, water and carbon reduction fail to measure climate resilience on their own. We created the world’s first holistic measure of resilience, and our tools measure resilience, evaluate progress, and prepare for future scenarios with a special emphasis on justice.

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Our Focus is on Three Aspects

We work with you to prioritize your resources, enhance your investments, and build resilient institutions.

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Our Approch

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Chicago in 2018

Apply Recent Research

Bridging science and decisions for practical solutions, led by Joyce Coffee.

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Shape Consensus for Future Success

We deliver benefits now while reducing future risks effectively.

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Emphasize Social Equity

We focus on social equity in climate resilience for vulnerable communities.

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New Ideas for Sustainability

Innovative climate solutions, fostering resilience through collaboration and sustainability.

Global

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Problem

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Climate Resilience is required to curb the growing costs and human toll of climate change. Losses due to weather-related events have increased nearly ten-fold over the last 40 years, from a ten-year global average of USD 12 billion in 1980 to USD 119 billion today. And lower-resourced communities face the greatest threats.

You can save lives, enhance livelihoods, and save money in the face of climate disruption by measuring how climate change will affect you, strategizing how to adapt, and financing your initiatives, all while ensuring that social equity is fundamental to climate resilience