Climate change is transforming the world around us, radically altering disaster risk, disrupting food production and supply chains, influencing migration and conflict, and threatening the viability of many of the systems and practices on which we depend. Tipping points in the climate system threaten to reshape our physical environment via shifts in ocean currents and atmospheric circulation, the collapse of ecosystems such as the Amazon, the loss of large ice sheets, and the amplification of warming resulting from the release of large quantities of greenhouse gases embedded in natural systems. Locations that are home to many millions of people may become physically or functionally uninhabitable due to unsurvivable combinations of heat and humidity, permanent inundation, or the collapse of agricultural productivity. Where climate related risks are less directly existential, populations will need to contend with escalating risks from droughts, floods, storms, landslides, extreme heat, extreme rainfall and wildfires, food and water insecurity, and increasingly variable and unpredictable weather. These risks threaten to undermine human development, erode or reverse economic growth, and adversely affect human wellbeing in a multitude of ways, many of which are difficult to predict.

As we hurtle past the 1.5*C guardrail and rapidly approach a warming of 2°C by the middle of century, adapting to rapid and severe climate change is now unavoidable.

It is therefore absolutely vital that public policy, planning, and long-term investment decisions by both government and the private sector are informed by a knowledge of climate change. For human societies to flourish, decision-makers need to consider the impacts of their actions on the global climate (mitigation), and the implications of climate change for the sustainability and viability of their policies, plans and investments (adaptation). At the local scale, communities, businesses and organisations need to identify adaptation actions to respond to specific climate change risks and impacts, and build their general resilience to climate and other shocks and stresses. At the same time, we need to ensure that adaptation transitions are just and inclusive, and do not exacerbate poverty, inequality and marginalisation.

Developing the knowledge and capacity to build adaptation and resilience into our activities and operations at all scales therefore needs to be a priority for governments, businesses, non-profits, and other organisations, and communities. Developing this knowledge and capacity to support just, effective and sustainable adaptation that builds general resilience and addresses specific climate related risks and impacts is the goal of our training.

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