Collected Works climate resilience

UrbanShift supports local projects in 20+ cities across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, enabling city leaders to adopt integrated approaches to sustainable development.

The group is also building a global platform of knowledge and expertise on sustainable, inclusive, low-carbon urban solutions.

Learn more about UrbanShift projects and their impact on transforming cities below.

Land on Water will provide a climate-resilient and adaptable solution for the construction of new floating buildings worldwide.

MAST has envisioned a new system of simple flat-packed modules made from recycled reinforced plastic, that can be easily transported around the globe and assembled into countless configurations, providing a secure floating foundation.

Nature-inclusive and climate-adaptive.

Nearly all materials in The Natural Pavilion are biobased and renewable. In addition to the Dutch wood of the construction and the wooden (CLT) floors and stairs, all inner walls are made of (residual) materials from agri-culture and horticulture such as straw, flax, bell pepper stems and spinach seed. 

The glass was reused from a government building in The Hague.

Architizer spoke with LANDPROCESS founder Kotchakorn Voraakhom about the climate-adaptive Thammasat Urban Rooftop Farm, TURF.

The project unites the principles of modern landscape design with traditional agriculture of rice terraces, to transform wasted space into a productive organic rooftop farm – Asia’s largest.

Global Center on Adaptation created the Adaptation Knowledge Portal to make information on adaptation accessible and actionable – as a comprehensive online source connecting adaptation science, policy, and practice.

In addition, see GCA State and Trends in Adaptation Reports 2020, 2021, and 2022.

MIKOKO PAMOJA is a small-scale carbon offset facility that uses mangroves as the domain. The project seeks to provide long-term incentives for mangrove restoration and protection through community engagement and participation.

Mikoko Pamoja is an excellent example of a ‘triple win’ project for climate, community, and biodiversity conservation.

Opportunities to help restore our climate are growing worldwide. Designers can engage individually, collectively, and with clients who see such efforts as a tangible way to fulfill their climate pledges and ESG strategies.

Participate with respected organizations to help restore coastal mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal salt marshes across global communities. Discover more below.

The African Union’s Great Green Wall initiative’s ambition is to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land; sequester 250 million tons of carbon and create 10 million green jobs by 2030, in a region where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth.

Opportunities to help restore our climate are growing worldwide. Designers can engage individually, collectively, and with clients who see such efforts as a tangible way to fulfill their climate pledges and ESG strategies.

Participate with respected organizations to help restore forests in cites and local or global communities. Discover more below.

NOTPLA is committed to making plastic disappear by producing packaging with seaweed –– abundant, carbon sequestering, rapidly renewable, biodegradable, and home compostable –– one of our greatest natural weapons against climate change.

See Oceans 2050, www.oceans2050.com, an organization leading the global effort to quantify seaweed carbon sequestration.