The Adaptation Imperative
Tue, 12 Mar
|Singapore Sustainability Academy
An evening to focus on adaptation and change: Discover the Adaptation to Climate Change Workshop & the Fresk of Conscious Evolution
Time & Location
12 Mar 2024, 6:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Singapore Sustainability Academy, 180 Kitchener Rd, #06-10, Singapore 208539
About the event
Mitigation is essential, but unfortunately no longer sufficient: adaptation to climate change is essential. Ultimately, the two are intertwined and require us to understand the evolution of our consciousness in order to make the necessary choices to accelerate climate solutions while avoiding maladaptation.
Join us for an evening to explore the implications of adaptation and choose one of the 2 proposed educational workshops to be better equipped to make the right choices for adaptation:
The Adaptation workshop
The Adaptation to Climate Change Workshop is based on the IPCC Working Group 2 findings on risks and impacts of Climate Change. This workshop gives a methodology aiming at making the right choices regarding the integration of Climate Risks to the operations within the framework of a case study.
Thus, the workshop equips you to take future-proof decisions and reduce climate change-induced risks in order to get ready for the unavoidable impacts to come.
The Adaptation to Climate Change Workshop relies on collective intelligence: participants work together to identify adaptation options, assess them and make decisions combining impact and compromise.
The workshop flow will be:
- Introduction & Key concepts of Adaptation
- Climate Risk methodology
- Case studies about Singapore (discover what Sea level rise in Tuas, River Flooding in JB or heatwaves in Queenstown could mean and how to adapt to protect our businesses).
The Fresk of Conscious Evolution
The Conscious Evolution Fresk is a collaborative and creative game designed to help you understand and address the complex sustainability challenges of the 21st century. Through this workshop based on New World Together transdisciplinary research findings, you will access breakthrough knowledge and innovative ways of thinking, that can empower and enlighten you.
During the game, you will work as a team with different sets of cards containing key information about the global sustainability challenges, their hidden root causes, and their solutions. Your mission is to use your individual and collective intelligence to connect the dots and organize the cards to have a clear picture that allows you to:
- Adopt a systemic approach: Break the silos to grasp the interrelated challenges of sustainability as a whole together with their fundamental causes.
- Deepen your understanding: Recognize unsustainable behavior patterns, their past origins, their root causes, and how they are perpetuated below our level of awareness.
- Find a pathway: Discover what we need to nurture and change in order to find a pathway toward the “better world our hearts know is possible”.
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AGENDA
6:00pm – 6:15pm Registration
6:15pm – 9:15pm Join one of the workshops proposed (choose your workshop during the registration process).
9:15pm –9:30pm Wrap up & Networking session
Please note that, due to the length of the workshops (3h), the event will begin at 6:15pm sharp.
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Please choose the workshop you wish to attend during the registration process.
Every participant should register under his/her own name. We do not accept group reservation under one name.
Thank you for your understanding.
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In the spirit of our sustainability-focused events, we kindly ask that you make the following eco-conscious choices:
- Carpooling or taking public transport to reduce our collective carbon footprint (Farrer Park (NE8))
- Bringing a reusable water bottle to reduce single-use plastic waste
- Exchanging digital business cards and contacts instead of printed name cards
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We might take photos during our evenings for our social media, please let us know if you do not wish to appear on the photos.