This week's perspectives (2nd Dec 2022)....
Covering the events, reports and news that we think you need to know about
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One recent Daily Perspective looked at an excellent report from the RMI, discussing the need for resiliency hubs.
The UN estimates that climate adaptation spending, just in developing countries, could reach US$300bn by 2030. This is on top of the tens of billions being spent by national and regional governments in developed countries. This covers a range of investment themes, including construction of flood defenses, building resilience into our essential services, and enhancing disaster responses.
Steven Bowen writes "this is where resilience hubs can literally be a lifeline. They can create spaces where people can come to get information, access the internet, charge their phones (and even their cars), get essential food and water, stay warm, and get medical assistance. And they can also serve a wider role during non-disaster periods, being a hub for the local residents, based around meeting spaces, community gardens and education services. One obvious approach is to make these hubs modular - allowing construction costs to be minimised, and build times to be shortened."
Here are some other recent 'Daily Perspectives':
👁️🗨️ Electrifying industry with heat pumps
👁️🗨️ Maggots as an alternative antibiotic?
👁️🗨️ An underground solution to drought?
👁️🗨️ Defining what is a sustainability linked bond
👁️🗨️ Green hydrogen - is Germany going for broke?
👁️🗨️ Agriculture & indirect migrant labour exploitation
👁️🗨️ France car parks and PV
👁️🗨️ Pesticides and PFAs
👁️🗨️Yes we are using lots of coal, but for how long?
Examples of our longer blogs (read here) include:
🔎 Double Materiality: the 'on' and 'of' switch (Transitions and Sustainability)
🔎 The green hydrogen investor dilemma (Greener Energy Applications)
🔎 Feed the world: changes to feed and Total Resource Productivity (Agriculture and Natural Capital)
🔎 AMR: a primer (Health and Well-being)
🔎 Risk of actual / perceived provenance issues (Transitions and Sustainability)
🔎 China is going big in offshore wind (Electricity Systems)
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