Use-It or Lose-It Moment for Infrastructure Financing
Resilience Shift’s Executive Director Seth Schultz joined transatlantic infrastructure finance roundtable to discuss how to utilise this once-in-a-lifetime moment for infrastructure spending.
Category: News
The Resilience Shift publishes news of its activities including project news and outputs, events, features, as well as blogs from partners and grantees.
The Resilience Shift launches global resilient ports initiative
Our work to date shows an urgent need to build the whole-system resilience of ports and global supply chains to withstand multiple drivers of disruption. We are inviting industry, practitioners and policy makers to work with us to deliver on this ambition.
New report on The Economic Case for Greening the Global Recovery through Cities
Following its launch, we are delighted to support this valuable work by the Coalition for Urban Transitions, that sets out investment priorities for national governments post Covid to boost their economies today and progress toward long-term resilience and prosperity tomorrow.
The case for value chain resilience
How can combining resilience thinking with value chain analysis increase competitive advantage protect against shocks and longer-term stresses? A paper authored by Dr Igor Linkov and other experts including some of the Resilience Shift team, argues the case for ‘value chain resilience’.
The Itaipú Dam: how natural ecosystems support this modern technological wonder
The largest renewable energy generator on Earth, Itaipú Dam’s hydropower plant supplies 90% of Paraguay’s energy and 15% of Brazil’s. Restoring forests along the river plus different approaches to land management have played a significant role in this success, turning the idea that ecosystem conservation is at odds with economic development on its head.
Fostering Resilience-oriented thinking in Engineering Practice
The results of roundtable discussions convened by Resilience Shift to discuss the resilience of critical infrastructure systems have been published in a paper in the Engineering Sustainability Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineering
Considering the importance of upstream actions for resilience
Dr Juliet Mian was a speaker and panellist on Emerging Stronger: Upstream Actions for Environmental, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Transport Infrastructure, at this this year’s Asia-Pacific Transport Forum, taking place as a Virtual Meeting from 24-28 August 2020.
A living lab to tackle decarbonisation and resilience
Global technology company Siemens is using retrofitting to create a microgrid test site at their research and development facility in Princeton, New Jersey
