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The Challenge and Opportunity of Comprehensive Climate Resilience
Material prepared by Kresge Foundation partners for a convening centered on climate-resilience in low-income communities: The Challenge and Opportunity of Comprehensive Climate Resilience -- presentation by Lara Hansen, chief scientist and executive director, EcoAdapt [Link to attached PDF ‘Opening Plenary_Lara Hansen’]
The Challenge and Opportunity of Comprehensive Climate Resilience
- 1. The Challenge and Opportunity of Comprehensive Climate Resilience Lara Hansen, Ph.D. Chief Scien3st & Execu3ve Director
- 2. Resilience = Adapta3on + Mi3ga3on + Social Cohesion Adapta:on Ac3ons that reduce the adverse effects or harness the beneficial effects of climate change by planning for change Mi:ga:on Reducing GHG emissions that cause climate change Social Cohesion Willingness of members of a community to cooperate in order to achieve resilience Defini3ons
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- 5. The Climate Clock San Francisco Bay Area with a projected 55 inches of sea level rise
- 6. The Climate Clock Ocean Acidifica3on
- 7. Energy Use Air Quality Implica3ons of the clock Drought Flooding
- 8. How to not lose any progress we’ve made to the problem we’ve created? GeVng to Durability “The future ain’t what it used to be.” -‐Yogi Berra
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- 10. Five tenets of adapta3on
- 11. • Refugia • Gradients (La3tudinal/Eleva3onal) • Heterogeneity • Connec3vity • Linkage between systems Spa$al/Place-‐based Ac$ons Require Temporal Thinking 1) Protect adequate and appropriate space for a changing world
- 12. 2) Reduce non-‐climate stressors Disease & Pest Species Pollution & Habitat Degradation Agriculture & Habitat Fragmentation Unsustainable Harvest
- 13. © WWF/ EricMielbrecht 3) Manage for Uncertainty
- 14. Making decisions given an uncertain future Using the information we already have to inform what we already do! A word about Uncertainty
- 15. Should I take my umbrella?
- 16. 4) Reduce local and regional climate change MichaelS.Quinton,NationalGeographic
- 17. Resilience op3ons have limits, some systems are very limited 5) Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- 18. Making progress in resilience 4. Implementation 6. Integration 5. Evaluation 3. Planning 2. Assessment 7. Sharing 1. Awareness www.cakex.org
- 19. A conceptual interpreta3on What are your goals? Individual and collec3ve How does climate change affect your region and the services you support? How will changes in the region effect the effec3veness of your goals, plans and ac3vi3es? How likely are those changes to occur and how will they interact with other stressors? What can you do about it? What are you presently planning/doing in your work? Process
- 20. Are you considering climate change when you develop your goals, plans and ac3ons? Asking Climate Ques3on(s) Etc…..
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- 22. Is this skateboard company planning for climate change more than your community?
- 23. Climate Change’s Opportunity Climate change gives us the opportunity in evalua3ng what we can do to reduce our vulnerability to climate change to re-‐imagine our communi3es Changing them to reflect our collected values, Priori3ze the people that live in them, And make them more resilient for a shared future. We can correct past decisions that created inequitable zoning, growth rather than people, and the fossil energy economy that created the problems we fact today.