Reshaping a resilient future in response to COVID-19
Organizer: Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), World Resources Institute (WRI), International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Complex Systems in Transition (CST) *this session is part of the Development & Climate Days
| The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerability of our global society to systemic risks. Learning from this crisis is crucial, since it is a harbinger of a new global risk landscape where events such as pandemics, financial crashes and synchronized food shocks spread more quickly and widely than ever before. Critically, this new risk landscape is having disproportionate impacts on vulnerable and marginalized groups. Clearly, we cannot “recover” back to business as usual from the COVID-19 shock. We need to build a resilient future that ensures the capacity to sustain, or improve, human well-being in an equitable manner and in the face of systemic uncertainty, shocks and change. Resilience science and practice has provided rich insights on the attributes and types of interventions that underpin truly resilient, long-term development. This is the moment to start translating this progress into broader-scale action that builds resilient economies, societies and communities in a post-COVID-19 world. |
Speakers:
Albert Norström, Head of Knowledge and Evidence, Global Resilience Partnership (GRP)
Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Co-Director, SARChI Chair, Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST)
Nisha Krishnan, Senior Finance Action Track Associate, Global Commission on Adaptation
Saleemul Huq, Director of the International Centre for Climate Change & Development (ICCCAD)