{"id":34899,"date":"2025-05-07T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/?p=34899"},"modified":"2025-05-05T06:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:01:42","slug":"from-insights-to-impact-shaping-science-based-action-on-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureearth.org\/2025\/05\/07\/from-insights-to-impact-shaping-science-based-action-on-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"From Insights to Impact: Shaping Science-Based Action on Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the face of a warming climate, rising inequality, and increasing geopolitical instability, the concept of resilience has never been more critical – or more complex.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, global leaders gathered in Washington, DC, last week with a clear goal: to make resilience science practical and accessible. But doing so is no simple task.<\/p>\n

\u201cResilience is a nice word,\u201d noted Jorge Gastelumendi, the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center and a participant at the workshop, \u201cbut when you start to break it down it gets complicated. This is an opportunity to have a conversation about this framework and for us to learn from it.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”34900″ add_caption=”yes”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1746446446891{padding-top: px !important;}”]That spirit of mutual learning and co-creation shaped \u201cFrom Insights to Impact\u201d, a high-level workshop where more than 50 experts from science, policy, and finance came together to stress-test a new tool: the Resilience Science Must-Knows<\/a>\u2014a set of distilled, evidence-based insights meant to drive more effective, coordinated action in the face of accelerating climate disruption.<\/p>\n

The workshop was co-organized by Future Earth, the Global Resilience Partnership, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, the Atlantic Council\u2019s Climate Resilience Centre, and the Resilience Hub. The half-day event marked a pivotal moment in the development of the Resilience Science Must-Knows, a forthcoming science report co-produced by Future Earth. Additional workshops<\/a> for participants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia are planned in May.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1746446130575{padding-top: px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Turning Knowledge into Action<\/h4>\n

Similar to the 10 New Insights in Climate Science report<\/a>, the Must-Knows aim to distill complex academic research into key messages that are clear, relevant, and ready to use. But its ambition goes further. The Must-Knows are intended to lay the foundation for an additional policy report, the Road to Action, that will support decision-making across sectors and serve as a tool for transformation, not just adaptation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat makes this initiative truly distinctive is not only the quality of science, but that science is being applied,\u201d Nigar Arpadarai, the UN\u2019s High-Level Champion for COP29, said during the event. \u201cLeaders like you are testing, translating, and contextualising these insights\u2026 ensuring that science becomes practical, usable, and aligned with the real-world decisions that shape our future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Participants were first introduced to a long list of 13 draft Must-Knows that were organized into four categories: what resilience is, why it matters, what fosters it, and what needs to be considered. Through an interactive ranking process, six of the Must-Knows were prioritized for deeper exploration. These covered everything from the importance of anticipatory capacity to the role of inclusive finance.<\/p>\n

Participants flagged missing perspectives, confusing terminology, and challenges in applying certain concepts across sectors. But they also shared rich insights from their work, spanning locally led adaptation, nature-based solutions, foresight and scenario planning, and climate finance, that helped connect the Must-Knows to real-world practice.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”34904″ css=”.vc_custom_1746445434706{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

What\u2019s Next?<\/h4>\n

The feedback gathered at the workshop will go directly to the editorial board, who will integrate it into their ongoing work of revising the Resilience Science Must-Knows,\u00a0followed by further engagements throughout the year, including during London Climate Action Week, at UNFCCC\u2019s Africa Regional Climate Week, Climate Week NYC, and at COP30 in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil.<\/p>\n

By embedding science in the lived experience of practitioners, financiers, and policymakers, this initiative aims to help reframe resilience not as a buzzword, but as a practical, informed pathway to a more secure and sustainable future.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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