The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2023 defines it as “a set of interrelated global risks whose cumulative effects make the overall impact greater than the sum of the parts.” The report describes the cost of living crisis as the most immediate global risk, and the climate crisis as the greatest future threat facing the world.
Designing for Resiliency can help to reduce the damages caused by extreme climate-related disasters and can speed up the recovery processs. Many suvivors of climate emergencies are forced to wait for years to put their lives back together.
Canadians are facing larger disasters on a more frequent basis. There is no doubt that some of these recent and future events are the result of an increasingly unstable climate.