Employing a data-led approach to resilience
Does practice make perfect? Do countries become more resilient to disasters the more they experience them? Or does their resilience break do...
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From pandemics to production supply chains: how do we make sense of the complex world we live in? Every month, we bring together the best thinkers and practitioners within resilience thinkin...
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Human use of the ocean: Limit- and lawless?
The seas are getting crowded. As commercial use of the ocean accelerates exponentially and climate change impacts worsen, marine ecosystems...
Facing a triple crisis: Food, climate and conflict
Food insecurity, climate change and conflict are placing considerable pressure on the global food system. Inequality, access to land, access...
Imagining a resilient climate future through video games
What if decision-makers could live through and feel the future consequences of climate change in action today? Would it influence their poli...
Water can make or break climate action
Droughts, storms or sea water rise – climate change takes its form almost always through a change in water. But water is more than just a de...
Succeeding with large-scale transformations
How can systemic transformations be achieved at the scale, speed, and quality that is needed? And what capacities are required to navigate t...
Who are the real experts of climate change adaptation?
The sixth IPCC report sent a clear message: we are one minute to midnight and the rate and scale of action that is required is immense. Howe...
What does a healthy ocean really look like?
No matter where in the world you live, your life is affected by the ocean. But many of our oceans are sick, and have been so for a while. So...
Carl Folke on resilience, the biosphere and the future of our planet
How did we get to where we are today and what will it take to move away from it? In this episode, Owen Gaffney talks to Carl Folke, a co-fou...
Communicating science in the age of the Anthropocene
The age of humans is messing things up in many different ways. Not only is human pressure on the environment changing the earth system in un...
Will the Ocean Science Decade help make our oceans healthy again?
The ocean has gone from infinite, wild and thriving to finite, fragile and full of garbage. It feeds us, generates most of the air we breath...
Communicating the complex science behind the planetary boundaries
In 2009, 28 internationally renowned scientists identified nine processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the entire planet. P...
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From pandemics to production supply chains: how do we make sense of the complex world we live in? Every month, we bring together the best th...
In the SDGs, where have biodiversity and ecosystem services gone?
Despite the world entering the last decade to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) biodiversity and ecosystem services remain chron...
Making change and transformation really happen
Within calls for transformation, there seems to be a hunger - a hunger to slow down, spend time healing, and to feel more connected; to ours...
The 2020 Human Development Report
Every year since 1990, the United Nations Development Programme has published the Human Development Report . The report has increasingly emp...
What it takes to make science and business connect
Science and industry have much to gain from working more closely together. But their methods and expectations can sometimes feel worlds apar...
After COVID-19: imagining a safe and just future for all
Right now, the very idea of imagining the future might feel strange when the world is changing in ways we barely even understand. In this ep...
Building business resilience: what has Covid-19 taught us?
Economies around the world have been shaken by the COVID-19 pandemic and revealed serious vulnerabilities and weaknesses. What can we learn...
Crisis and renewal: what COVID-19 says about our world
Covid-19 has brought the modern world to its knees. How did we get to this point? This episode of Rethink Talk takes a deep dive into what t...