ICSI has been featured on a recent episode of The Climate Daily, a short podcast that covers a daily round-up of climate-related news, hosted by Maude Madison and Jeffrey James. […]
September 2021
Speeding up the pace, and the joy of being social again
Seth Schultz shares news from Race to Resilience at New York Climate Week, along with our new film series, Resilience Engineered, that can help you to build the business case for resilience in your organisation, and plans for the COP Resilience Hub.
The golden thread of resilience guidance, tools and standards (and metrics)
Guidance, tools and standards play a key role in the development of sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Savina Carluccio looks back, there is a golden thread that runs through several pieces of work and leads to our work on climate resilient Infrastructure Pathways and resilience indicators which will be launching later this year for COP26.
ICSI joins UNFCCC Race to Resilience campaign as Partner Initiative
The International Coalition of Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI) has been accepted as a Partner Initiative for the UNFCCC Race to Resilience global campaign, the sibling campaign of Race to Zero. […]
Webinar: Accelerating adoption of Guidance, Tools and Standards for sustainable and resilient infrastructure
On Thursday 9 Sept, ICSI hosted a virtual discussion on accelerating the adoption of guidance, tools and standards for sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Stakeholders across the infrastructure lifecycle use guidance, […]
New film series kicks off by exploring uncertainty and resilience
A premiere screening of Resilience Engineered Episode 1: ‘Preparing for an uncertain future’ is taking place on Wednesday 22 September 2021 17.00-18.00 BST at New York Climate Week.
#BuildingToCOP26 Coalition accelerates climate action
The Resilience Shift is part of the Building to COP26 Coalition which has released this week its plans for #BuildingToCOP26 – ahead of Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26.
Resilience insights from two crises involving power failure
Lessons learned from two different crises – severe winter storm, and wildfires – both involving many impacts and major power outages, show strong parallels.
Civil engineers need to ‘understand the social implications’ of what they do
The latest ICE Brunel lecture in South Asia, with Seth Schultz, argued that the cost of ‘inaction’ was greater than the cost of action, when it comes to the climate crisis.
40 organizations already supporting new COP Resilience Hub
The Resilience Shift is delighted to be supporting the launch of the COP Resilience Hub that will put the focus on resilience and adaptation at COP26.
Register to play EARTH EX, the global resilience scenario exercise
The world’s largest cross-sector resilience exercise is now open to play through to 31 October 2021, and is a great opportunity to test your preparedness. Register now.
Need for resilience strengthened as weather-related disasters increase over past 50 years
A new Atlas published today by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) shows that a disaster related to a weather, climate or water hazard occurred every day on average over the past 50 years – killing 115 people and causing US$ 202 million in losses daily.