Issue 10: Are Existing Climate Adaptation Standards Fit For Purpose or Just Performance Art
Exploring the uncomfortable truth about climate adaptation standards. Five years into ISO 14090, organisations can demonstrate full compliance without proving they're any more resilient. As the effectiveness of adaptation projects drops sharply beyond 1.5°C warming, the stakes for getting measurement right have never been higher.
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Roundup in Resilience: September 19, 2025
The World Economic Forum quantified the climate's economic toll, business leaders made the case for revolutionising private adaptation finance, the UN warned of an increasingly erratic global water cycle, Brazil confronts a surge in mosquito-borne disease, and military spending starves climate adaptation funding.
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