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We build capacity in service to a just climate adaptation agenda. We experiment and learn our way forward, bringing together research, policy and practice.
The Challenge
We are facing a lack of connection between sectors, people and ideas which hampers our collective capacity to effectively adapt to climate change.
Our Response
We offer a relational bridge between theory and practice, seeking to nurture collaboration among researchers, policy makers and practitioners to help inform better policies, practices and decision making.
The Challenge
The urgent climate challenge we’re facing calls for coordinated and integrated approaches that recognise and address the structural drivers of vulnerability. This requires building adaptive capacity across all sectors and enabling policy makers, practitioners, community service organisations and funders to make effective decisions in the face of growing risk and uncertainty. While there is ample theory and research on climate change adaptation, it is not effectively being applied in practice.
Our Response
- We surface the interconnection of cross-sectoral issues to act strategically.
- We build capacity in service to a just adaptation agenda.
- We catalyse applied, transformational adaptation research.
What does it look like in practice?
Gatherings
We organise gatherings that bring together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners working on climate adaptation and justice. These spaces foster connection, allowing participants to share their work, exchange ideas, and learn from one another.
Workshops
We run workshops in practices and methods in adaptation and scenario planning, adaptation pathways and anticipatory policymaking, to build our capacity to navigate uncertainty. Although Greater Melbourne-based, we connect with both the Victorian and national policy landscapes and draw from international best-practice.
Applied research
We coordinate and amplify place-based climate adaptation research that showcases what it means to bridge the knowledge-action gap and progress just adaptation.
Express your interest
Do you want to help grow the shared understanding and practice of climate adaptation?
