Virtual Resilience Lab Part II – Retooling cooperation to effectively respond to future climate risks

Resilience Frontiers is a foresight-driven initiative and aims at harnessing the potential of paradigm-shifting frontier technologies and emerging social trends towards long-term global resilience. The initiative responds to the deep societal transformations and maximizes our collective resilience to complex challenges including climate change beyond 2030.

Resilience Frontiers convened the Virtual Resilience Lab series between July and September 2020, as a continuation of its effort to engage global thought leaders. The outputs from this series will feed into the road mapping phase of the initiative.

Part I of the Virtual Resilience Lab series took place on 29-30 July, where thought leaders from all over the world discussed positive values and opportunities to foster lifelong learning to ensure environmental stewardship. Following the successful launch of part I,  part II of the series, which took place on 2-3 September and focused on ‘Retooling global cooperation to effectively respond to future climate risks’ covered the following topics, which correspond to three pathways (among eight) of the Resilience Frontiers:

Pathway 3: Ensuring universal equitable coverage of and open access to, big data and information, and related benefits to human well-being
Pathway 4: Managing water and other natural resources in an equitable and participatory way
Pathway 5: Managing transboundary considerations equitably

Agenda

Time	Agenda item	Details/questions/ responsibilities
Wednesday, 2 September 2020
14:00–14:15	Welcome remarks Housekeeping Objectives and expectations (via Mentimeter)	Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC secretariat
14:15-14:45	An introduction to Futures Literacy	Loes Damhof, Hanze University
14:45–15:00	Scenarios of probable and desirable futures for each pathway Recap of part I of the Virtual Resilience Lab Series	Leads of Pathway 3, 4 and 5 Leads of Pathway 1 and 2
15:00-15:15	Keynote	Andrew Zolli, Planet Inc.
15:15-15:45	Facilitated plenary open discussion: Bright lights	Facilitator tbc
15:45	Introducing slack and how we are using the tool
Thursday, 3 September 2020
14:00-14:10	Aha moments from the first day – open discussion
14:10-14:15	Purpose of the next group discussion	Leads of Pathway 3, 4 and 5
14:15 – 14:45	Break out group discussion 1: Validating and refining the storylines	3 break out groups (one per pathway)
14:45-15:15	Break out group discussion 2: Proposed upstream actions	3 break out groups (one per pathway)
15:20-15:35	Highlights of the group discussion and reactions
15:35-15:45	Where do we go from here? How can you stay involved? Reminder of RF digital discussion forums (Slack, LinkedIn, Social media, RF website)
15:55–16:00	Information on part III of the Virtual Resilience Lab Series
15:45 – 15:50	Final words	Youssef Nassef, UNFCCC secretariat