THE ECOLOGICAL SEQUESTRATION TRUST
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Mission Statement
The Ecological Sequestration Trust is a UK Charity formed in 2011, to speed up and scale up transformative urban development towards a resilient, low carbon, resource efficient way of living. We have brought together world-leading modellers and sector experts to design and create resilience.io, a decision support tool. This platform aims to bring together the public, private, community and knowledge sectors to enable them to make wiser, collaborative decisions on policies that lead to improved resilience and attract increasing private sector investments. An operating company Resilience Brokers has been formed, wholly owned by the Charity, to bring new ways of thinking and co-creating driven by the power of collaboration and the networked strengths of an outstanding group of individuals and organisations, working towards the rapid transition to resilient development paths in all regions of the world, to set them on track to achieving the Global Goals and `Paris Agreement targets. Resilience Brokers will provide communities with the tools and support they need to become resilient and able to withstand all emerging global challenges, and a chance to look forward to a better future: a future built on equality, justice, dignity, respect and shared prosperity for all.
About This Cause
The Team We are a small team based in UK, USA, Netherlands and Spain that works with city-region stakeholders to demonstrate how they can use systems approach in design, planning, implementation and operations to unlock value and drive sustainable performance. We are funded mainly through philanthropy, project work funds and the gift of volunteer time, enabling them to work on some of the most challenging problems that the world faces. Global Action The Ecological Sequestration Trust convened a trilogy of workshops, kindly hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation, to support the world's cities to move more quickly towards the SDGs, Paris Agreement and to use the Sendai Framework. The first event, in March 2015, brought together world-leading experts to brainstorm innovative ways to effectively mobilise long-term investment in city regions. The resulting report was very well received at the UN Third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa. In the run up to Habitat III, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN) raised the need for a roadmap to support the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. To this effect, in March 2016, the Trust convened a second high-level meeting to co-create Roadmap 2030: Financing and Implementing the Global Goals in Human Settlements and City Regions. Roadmap 2030 is the consolidation of leading-edge research and practice from city experts, renowned scholars and world-leading specialists including Eugenie Birch, Aromar Revi and Jeffrey Sachs among many others. Roadmap 2030 was the first fully integrated action plan presented at Habitat III, capable of supporting the implementation of the New Urban Agenda. It continues to be very well received and widely adopted by leading organisations and is now more relevant than ever in responding to the COViD 19 Pandemic. Following the introduction of Roadmap 2030 at Habitat III, a number of key actors stressed the urgent need to take things forward. In response to this call, the Trust assembled the Resilience Brokers in 2017, and convened a high-level meeting to identify the critical concepts and opportunities for collaborative and transformative action within Roadmap 2030. The three-day workshop brought together delivery partners and key supporters–including Jeff Sachs and John Elkington–who co-created a detailed delivery plan for the Resilience Brokers Programme. Our work with city regions Acting as “brokers”, we facilitate cross-sector partnerships, access to effective tools and a thriving environment for collaboration that will enable cities to deliver the best solutions to their region-specific challenges. Our phased and adaptable offering allows city regions to gradually apply, test, revise and embed this approach.Our offering is designed to help cities: 1.Increase infrastructure productivity and reduce investment costs by up to 40%. 2.Improve management of resources and multi-hazard risk – including the adverse impacts of climate change. 3. Put citizens’ wellbeing at the centre of planning and investment decisions. 4. Scale solutions to support the delivery of local, regional and global sustainability targets We have worked with regions in Accra-Ghana, Hunter-Australia, Medellin-Colombia, Stirling-UK, Sichuan-China, Anaklia-Georgia. Responding to COViD crisis We responded to the COViD 19 crisis by convening Pivot Projects. This is an eight month project in which over 100 multidisciplinary experts, supported by a volunteer team, are using existing models, data and analyses using a systems approach to explore how stimulus funding to support recovery from the COVID 19 pandemic can be targeted at enabling countries to work together to pivot away from today’s high-risk path. The new direction revealed will be an affordable way to reduce and mitigate future pandemic and climate risks while delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The following countries will be studied with their selected demonstration regions: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom, and the United States. The project will look at the origin of COVID 19, how it spreads and what factors drove it in hotspots of high infections and death rates, its impact there and response, and what this did to socio-economic and ecological systems. Next, it will look at how countries can reduce and mitigate future pandemic and climate risk while creating jobs and alleviating poverty and how this might change the approach to delivering the Paris Agreement, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the Global Goals. Examples will be given of approaches in demonstration regions in the 15 target countries. What is unique about this approach is that the work will apply global systems thinking and modelling to explore how communities can deal with multiple risks like climate change and future pandemics, to find a way to learn from what has happened and to enable them to unlock value and drive resilient, sustainable performance in their city regions. This can be, for example, through policies, lifestyle choice changes, new business models, technical innovations, new land use and mobility systems and ecological regeneration. The project is deploying a holistic approach to systems change that can learn from the COVID-19 impact and response. It focuses on improving human, ecological, and resource systems health as a key part of reducing the future risks of pandemics and climate change. This is a regenerative, resilient development model in which human and ecological systems health are central to resource consumption, land use, and investment decisions and underpin new lifestyle choices. The project will harness global data and scientific evidence to underpin recommendations and use integrated modelling of social and natural systems and their interlinkages to understand cascading risks and how they can be reduced. We are uniquely mobilising previously disengaged groups through the faiths, education, communities, and arts and culture initiatives, which are designed to engage, educate and allow ‘bottom-up’ behaviour change that benefits long term resilience. Here in particular, we seek to change how we think about the natural environment that sustains human life and to recognise the mutuality in that relationship. Digital online approach The study will be carried out online on an innovative digital platform created by Resilience Brokers (RBL). Work will be focussed in 15 countries which have been initially selected as being those chosen in the Deep Decarbonisation project of the SDSN, that represent 70% of global GDP and that have data and systems models available for climate mitigation analysis. These system models and the supporting data will be supported and integrated by a large-scale AI platform that also incorporates large amounts of open data from the Web to create a searchable whole Earth data cloud of major human and ecological systems. Around 50 volunteers are now starting to build the AI systems model, alongside the 100 experts. We are very keen to have additional volunteers and funding so that we can support this really critical work.