2 Degrees Later: Resilience in a Changing World

As the world strives to limit global warming to 1.5C, we need to prepare for significant changes to communities, economies and the places we live and care about. To do this we must embrace a new approach to conservation built around managing, adapting to, and transforming with change: Climate resilience.
The 2016 Fuller Symposium held on November 15, 2016 brought together a diverse array of experts to discuss how resilience can be a useful framework to rethink sustainability and conservation in the age of climate change. We looked at how people and ecosystems respond to the rapid and often irreversible change facing our planet, and how we need to manage and approach the tough choices, such as where we should best invest our scarce resources for the future. Finally, we explored some of the innovative thinking on resilience that will inevitably change the way we practice conservation.
Agenda
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Speakers will introduce the concept of resilience and explore how it can help us rethink conservation and sustainability in the age of climate change.
Bouncing Back, Bouncing Forward: Toward A More Resilient Future
Andrew Zolli, Author and Innovator
View VideohModerated Discussion + 5 minutes by Rebecca Shaw, Chief Scientist, WWF-US
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Speakers will discuss the rapid and often irreversible change facing our planet and how people and ecosystems are responding.
Living with Changing Climate, Forests & Wildfires: Lessons from the past
Thomas Swetnam, University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
View VideohCommunities on the Front Lines
Flower Ezekiel Msuya, University of Dar es Salaam’s Institute of Marine Sciences
View VideohUnstoppable: Choice, Hope and Transformation
Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research & Consulting
View VideohModerated Discussion by Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
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Speakers will share examples of the trade-offs facing conservation and development when building resilience in a changing climate.
Trade-offs and triage to sustain resilient reefs
Ken Anthony, Australian Institute of Marine Sciences
View VideohWhen push comes to shove: conservation and development in a changing climate
View VideohManaging wetlands amidst the uncertainty
Deb Nias, Murray Darling Wetlands Working Group
View VideohModerated Discussion by Jenny Frankel-Reed, USAID
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Speakers will explore innovations that are changing the way we do our work in the age of climate change.
Assisted Evolution - Can “Super Corals” Help Save Reefs?
Ruth Gates, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology Gates Coral Lab
View VideohRehearsing the Future: Scenario Planning in the National Park Service
Leigh Welling, National Park Service
View VideohInsuring Relevance and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
Nikhil da Victoria Lobo, Swiss RE Management (US) Corporation
View VideohModerated Discussion by Per Olsson, Stockholm Resilience Centre
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