{"title":"Jumpstart Resilience","authors":"A. Hill","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197549704.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197549704.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"For those communities that can manage to muster the political will to act in the absence of “no more” moments, this chapter identifies the easy wins for building resilience. One crucial step is requiring companies to disclose climate risk, giving them a deeper understanding of what they are up against and what they might need to do to prepare. Another is using scenario analysis to test operations against different imagined futures. More generally, all investments, policies, plans, and programs should be routinely screened for climate resilience. At a minimum, to avoid wasting precious resources, any investments in long-lived infrastructure should both implement the lessons from past disasters and account for future climate-worsened calamities. Ultimately, the choices we make now—especially with regard to infrastructure and land use—can help us thrive even as climate change unleashes unfamiliar weather extremes on the planet.","PeriodicalId":247448,"journal":{"name":"The Fight for Climate after COVID-19","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122689373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plan Across Borders","authors":"A. Hill","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197549704.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197549704.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at promising regional cooperation efforts to de-escalate tensions heightened by climate change. Tackling problems like pandemics or climate change within the framework of traditional jurisdictional boundaries means that policymakers continue to treat these challenges like matters of domestic or local concern, rather than the transboundary threats that they are. Breaking down these barriers requires deep focus on cross-border solutions. For example, the climate change problem of “too little and too much water” demands transboundary consideration of evolving conditions in river basins and ocean fisheries. Risk reduction efforts that stretch across regions also offer good avenues for building disaster preparedness, including stockpiling, creating insurance risk pools, setting up systems for regional climate forecasting and early warning, and re-energizing multilateralism. Likewise, the most urgent transborder challenge of all, climate-induced migration, calls for ever greater global cooperation—not less.","PeriodicalId":247448,"journal":{"name":"The Fight for Climate after COVID-19","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133372561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}