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04 March 2025

Innovate, experiment, fail better, transform: governing climate futures

Historically, climate governance has been characterised by fixed rules, slow-moving institutions and incremental progress. But what if success depends not on targets and rules, but on intensive collaboration and bold experimentation? What if we need to take more risks, build policy and governance frameworks that can learn and adapt in real time and thrive in uncertain environments?
04 March 2025

Closing the loop: feedbacking in community-engaged research

Emily Nabong, a PhD candidate in the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, recently travelled to Kiribati to engage in a final round of collaborative feedback before submitting her thesis. Emily designed an interactive session where her research partners could explore her system dynamics model together, drawing their own insights into the cascading impacts of climate change.