Increasing investment in resilience-building projects to protect vulnerable Australian communities and allow them to thrive in an uncertain future.
The Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable is a space for leaders and practitioners from private, public, research and not-for-profit organisations to come together to share knowledge, experience and expertise to improve the way decisions are made about resilience investment.
Increasing investment in resilience-building projects to protect vulnerable Australian communities and allow them to thrive in an uncertain future.
Learning from practical experience to develop skills and knowledge for good resilience investment decision-making.
Providing a forum to share knowledge and work together on the shared challenge of investing in resilience and climate change adaptation.
Identifying, sharing and developing the knowledge and tools needed to make better resilience investment decisions.
The Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable aims to increase proactive investment in physical and community resilience measures to protect vulnerable communities from the impacts of disasters and climate change. To achieve this, decision-makers need reliable and accessible approaches to balance different priorities and values in a way that acknowledges the economic, social and environmental benefits that resilience investments can generate for communities.
Members are developing practice cases and guidance materials to support systemic, risk-informed investment decision-making that enhances resilience to climate and disaster hazards.
Investing in resilience can generate significant benefits for communities, such as:
There is a growing urgency to adapt and build resilience to climate change. Communities around Australia are already experiencing a new normal of more frequent and severe disasters, and this will continue over the coming decades even with decisive global action to reduce emissions.
Efforts made to build resilience are opportunities to innovate, spur economic growth, protect and strengthen ecosystem health and biodiversity and build stronger, more connected and healthier communities.
Despite this growing urgency, there is a shortfall in resilience investments compared to what is realistically needed to manage disaster and climate risk.
The Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable is addressing this gap by collaboratively creating resources developed from practical experience to improve decisions around when, where and how to invest in resilience.
The Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable aims to increase proactive investment in physical and community resilience measures to protect vulnerable communities from the impacts of disasters and climate change. To achieve this, decision-makers need reliable and accessible approaches to balance different priorities and values in a way that acknowledges the economic, social and environmental benefits that resilience investments can generate for communities.
Members are developing practice cases and guidance materials to support systemic, risk-informed investment decision-making that enhances resilience to climate and disaster hazards.
Investing in resilience can generate significant benefits for communities, such as:
The Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable is exploring valuation approaches that allow for a robust analysis of the costs and benefits of resilience, and recognise the systemic and cascading nature of climate and disaster risk.
Members are learning by doing, working in real time to share experiences and improve the way that decisions are made about when, where and how to invest in resilience.
Climate-KIC Australia is providing secretariat and program support the Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable, as well as playing a lead role in the design and delivery of pilot projects and guidance materials.
The Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable is exploring valuation approaches that allow for a robust analysis of the costs and benefits of resilience, and recognise the systemic and cascading nature of climate and disaster risk.
Members are learning by doing, working in real time to share experiences and improve the way that decisions are made about when, where and how to invest in resilience.
Melinda brings her experience working on climate partnerships and projects in the Pacific and the UK to lead adaptation and resilience projects. She draws on her legal and policy background and experience in knowledge brokering, facilitation and strategy to support cross-sectoral stakeholders working collaboratively to build resilience and adapt to climate change.
The Resilient Futures Investment Roundtable is seeking new members to bring expertise and organisational resources to support the development, testing and piloting of methodologies to value the costs and benefits of resilience.
We create value for member organisations by supporting them to make informed, future-proofed decisions to manage climate risk and invest now in a resilient, climate-adapted future.
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