Lightning Talk by Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA at the RSA Scaling for impact event 1 February 2016. https://www.thersa.org/events/fellowship-events/2016/2/rsa-engage-scaling-for-impact----1-feb/ My journey to provide and scale support to city regions to meet Global Goals by 2030 In 2008 I was working in Arup, heading up their global planning business with a world class team of transport, environmental, urban and policy and economics experts. Before that I had worked in infrastructure design and delivery, particularly Public Private Partnerships, around the World and I was also an adviser to the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone on his Sustainable Development Commission and so I was very aware of the challenges of achieving improved city resilience. My team at Arup was working at the cutting edge of low carbon sustainable city planning worldwide, particularly in China. It was there I got very inspired by their vision of an ecological civilisation, living in harmony with nature, as the next phase of development after the industrial model. However getting the plans built everywhere we worked was very difficult because success still revolved around GDP growth and that was the metric decision making. We knew that this was damaging the health of land and ocean ecology, and human well-being was not necessarily improving as a result, but everyone thought that this was the “price of progress”. Development was becoming less inclusive in many more developed countries as well. I was given the opportunity to develop and articulate a roadmap towards a more resilient Ecological Age in the 2008-9 Brunel Lecture sponsored by Institution of Civil Engineers in London. I gave this presentation all over the world in 45 cities in 2008-9, and the feedback was very positive, but many were skeptical that a more resilient Ecological Age could be delivered. The financial crash did not help the mood. It was very clear that the disconnect between investment decision making and the community social/ecological system impact at global and local scales was a huge problem. We did not have the tools and understanding of how human and ecology systems and resource flows interact and how this affects investment and health-productivity risks. It was clear to most people that city regions would be critical in determining a successful outcome for humanity by 2050, because of the projected urbanisation and the resulting investment drawn into those locations. The analysis showed that we had to embrace a factor 4 reduction in pollution and resource consumption, including greenhouse gas emissions, by 2050 both in retrofitting existing city regions and in the model for new urbanisation, if a successful outcome was to be achieved... http://resilience.io/about/rsa-scaling-for-impact/

1. Urban-rural systems
Living in harmony with Nature
Cultural Planning
Factor 4 reduction in pollution
and resource consumption
Integrated systems planning
Performance based procurement
Setting sustainable development
goals
2008-9
45 cities
Peter Head
OBE FREng FRSA

2. 6th November 2010
15.25 4th Nov 2010
Hong Kong

3. Shaping the wave
Designing the
surfboard for
everyone to use
Building capacity to
use it
Connecting capital
to resilience and
well-being
Shaping the wave
Designing the
surfboard for
everyone
Building capacity to
use it
Scaling it for
everyone
April 2011 Trust created
London

4. Integrating Planetary Health with the Sustainable Development Goals
TG 09
Goal 11
Make cities and
human
settlements
inclusive, safe,
resilient and
Sustainable
Sendai Disaster Risk Reduction-Mitigation/Adaptation
11.30 25th Sept 2015
New York
February 2015
Sendai
2015
Bellagio/NYC

5. March 2015
Bellagio

6. Open source platform, web access
Free to users

7. www.icesfoundation.org

8. Radical Hope
Finsbury, London
New Science
Split, Croatia
Deliberation
Conservatoire national des arts et métier, Paris
Collaborative
Intelligence
Bellagio Italy
Communitarian Solutions
RSA, London
Consilience
Xiamen, China

9. Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, (GAMA) Ghana

10. Urban Design
Water
Community
Education
Energy
Ecology
Transport Climate
adaptation
Policy and
economics

11. Please help building, testing and scaling,
particularly in Dorset as an EU demo
Delivering the Global Goals requires:
70,000 communities with 70,000 people each= 5 billion 2030
Investment in each through an Urban Fund (UDIF) 8% GDP per year
Commercial fund (RIIF) 1% of UDIF for capacity building, data gathering,
research and knowledge sharing
Total investment $5 trillion per year, which is available!
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