john matthews
@johoma
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optimistically anxious post-conservation ecologist, resilience practitioner and scientist, husband & papa, goat whisperer. tweets my own
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Joined February 2009
Can we justify “natural” security when national security is at stake? The UK will invest in more submarines and tanks even if that means smaller budgets for foreign aid and domestic social welfare. Can these agendas align? https://t.co/BvOm4rwKiu
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So proud to be one of the drivers behind developing and implementing CRIDA!
The #climaterisk system CRIDA used in >30 countries led by @unescoWATER, @deltares, and AGWA, has been raised to a UNESCO Flagship Initiative! CRIDA has been implemented by thought leaders such as Cal DWR, @USArmyCorps
@WorldBankWater @WadeCrowfoot
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Is climate resilience a market failure? Climate risk challenges economics; attributing risk to climate change is difficult to model, so economics undervalues resilience. #wr4er
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@paulkrugman @GRI_LSE @nytclimate
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Is our ongoing exposure to climate risk a market failure? How well do we price shifts in future availability and quality of natural…
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Will We Even Remember Brazil’s 2024 Disaster? https://t.co/qqV8Sf91a0
@WorldBankWater @WaterWired @_A4WS @ByIanJames
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My great grandparents lived on a small island in 1900. Weather forecasting was still new — they had telegraph lines then but no radio, and…
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Very impressed with California's #water #resilience plan - progressive thinking to prepare the state for impacts to come. @MeikeVanGin: "water is the engine of adaptation" @FeliciaMarcus @WaterWired @egies @WadeCrowfoot
@Alliance4Water
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Has #ESG been reduced to carbon emissions? Can we align investment and #resilience? New research highlighted by @Freakonomics made me think hard about how we should rebalance investment for sustainability https://t.co/olxIXqzH2w
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An interview I did with @Fadilium just dropped on the Smart #Water pod - great discussion about how #resilience is the new #watertech we should be adopted, and that tech needs to get in our head - quickly @WaterWired @upmanu @resilience @GCAdaptation
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Podcast Episode · Smart Water Solutions · 01/18/2024 · 1h 18m
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Excited to be attending @_A4WS's meeting in June, representing @Alliance4Water
#climateresilience is a growing concern for the private sector, well represented the past few years at this meeting the question for #climate and #water is not where/when but HOW @AlexSteffen
General registration for the 2024 AWS Global Water Stewardship Forum is now open! #A4WS2024 Join us on 5-6 June 2024 in Edinburgh to learn from others in the water stewardship community and join dialogues to help forge the future of #WaterStewardship 👉 https://t.co/LRkUSBEwJ9
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I've been really enjoying Susan Murphy's meditation on how koans can help us cope, revitalize, refocus around #climatechange -- a necessary part of my practice as a climate professional. I'm grateful for her thoughts @ZenOpenCircle
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What's the role of #water and #climate across borders? A great new white paper from @GenevaWaterHub untangles clarity from presumption @WaterWired @upmanu @AndersJagerskog @ihedelft @UNECE_Water
#peace
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Most of us have our views of the #ClimateCrisis shaped through the media. Are they getting the story wrong? Why aren't they provisioning #resilience and #climatehope over #fear? => The Two Climate Stories Journalists Track (and the Two They Ignore) https://t.co/QcjectnkFz
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Deep knowledge comes from familiarity with the richness and complexity of an issue, something I have learned personally from working on…
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Effective #climateadaptation is about rebalancing our tradeoffs. I'm the editor on a new paper: Fernando Miralles @GMU_COS on the economic basis for balancing #conservation, #resiliency, #agriculture - connected via #water
@IUCN_Water @grp_resilience
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This paper presents a synthesis of evidence and implementation gaps in the application of nature-based solutions (NbS) in agricultural landscapes that contri...
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Is #climateresilience a form of operational #futurism? This is the basis of my connection to @byronreese, as well known futurist and #ai specialist. Excited to be able to engage with communities beyond my #water and #climatechange homies. @egies @WaterWired @circleofblue
In this episode of #TheAgoraPodcast, we delve into the inspiring journey of John Matthews (@johoma), Executive Director of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (@Alliance4Water). John recounts his transformation from a publishing professional to a pivotal figure in
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AGWA is incredibly proud to be a part of this initiative around water resilience with the United Kingdom, with @MarkFletcher789 @DeltaresNL @DMSmifffy @MeikeVanGin
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My friend @JaneMadgwick with @globalcommonshq at #COP28: Economic resilience needs water, and we need to go to scale through landscapes that manage water and ecosystems through #resilience
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At #COP28 + want to: 🤝 Expand your network? 💡 Exchange ideas? 💧 Transform adaptation action? Don't miss our speed networking event: 🗓️ 10 Dec 📍 Capacity Building Hub ➡️ https://t.co/GSOYADxvek
@IWMI_ @Arup @wateraid @deltares @water_witness @ResilientWater @Declaration_FWF
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