Feb 17 2015
Perspective
I'm often asked what we at The Rockefeller Foundation mean when we talk about the intersection of resilience and innovation. One way to understand that relationship might be to imagine …
Feb 09 2015
Getting from here to there in the United States today can feel a lot closer to an episode of The Flintstones than The Jetsons. Every day we deal with problems …
Climate
Feb 02 2015
Perspective
Tonight, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx is sitting down with Google's Eric Schmidt for a fireside chat, livestreamed on YouTube, to discuss DOT's "Beyond Traffic," which looks at the …
Jan 13 2015
Perspective
As we are gearing up for another year of building resilience and advancing inclusive economies around the globe, we asked our Twitter community (a wonderfully opinionated bunch if ever there …
Jan 01 2015
The Rockefeller Foundation initiated a nine-year Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) in ten initial cities and four countries1 in 2008. ACCCRN seeks to strengthen the capabilities of cities …
Climate
Dec 29 2014
In August and September 2014, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) queried 248 executives at companies around the world about the role of business in building urban climate resilience. Slightly more than half are …
Climate
Dec 29 2014
Perspective
An executive survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit finds that 90 percent of business leaders believe that they have a role in building resilience and preparing cities for the …
Dec 25 2014
In 2013, Martin Rees, former president of the UK’s Royal Society, a prestigious fellowship of scientists from every field across science, engineering and medicine, wrote in Science magazine, “The main …
Climate
Dec 19 2014
Press Releases
WASHINGTON—The Rockefeller Foundation and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, are launching a project development facility aimed at unlocking private sector investment for infrastructure that helps build resilience …
Dec 18 2014
I n 2013, in the city of Tacloban in the Philippines, business owners started shutting shop after desperate survivors of Typhoon Haiyan turned to looting. As the storm’s aftermath illustrates, …
Climate