Resilience Frontiers responds to an action pledge
under the UNFCCC’s Nairobi Work Programme on
Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation. The action
pledge was spearheaded by the secretariat of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) in collaboration with Canada’s
International Development Research Centre
(IDRC), EIT-Climate-KIC, the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the
Global Water Partnership (GWP), the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United
Nations Environment Programme (UN
Environment), and the United Nations Office for
Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA).
The action pledge is a two-year collective
intelligence process. It aims to maximize resilience
to climate change beyond 2030, by addressing
opportunities and challenges in harnessing the
potential of paradigm-shifting frontier technologies
and emerging social trends towards sustainability.
It contributes to fostering innovation and
furthering the exploration of frontier issues
launched by the United Nations Chief Executives
Board for Coordination.
Resilience Frontiers strives to identify pathways
that would enable the implementation of
transformative approaches to climate-resilience
and contribute to regenerating the global
ecosystem. The design of pathways is supported
by the definition of policy-relevant roadmaps
for the next decade. This ‘roadmapping exercise’
will be spearheaded by intergovernmental
organizations and other relevant entities.
In parallel, a nexus of supporting experts,
organizations and initiatives has been set up.
The outcomes of the roadmapping exercise and
of parallel activities undertaken by the nexus
will feed into the work on enhancing ambition
and implementation in relation to adaptation to
climate change both within the UN system as well
as in other institutions engaged in resilience.
b. The action pledge
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With this approach
we are helping
participants to
play with different
scenarios of the
future, not just to
think outside of the
box but to imagine
there is no box.
Loes Damhof
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