What We Do
HOW WE TRANSITION
Sustainable energy can meet the demands of development and growth today, without endangering our development tomorrow. We undertake research on the political economy of energy transitions and sustainable development at national and local levels, including through advancing cross-cutting climate and energy policy analysis and development. Our work explores how the deployment of renewable technologies and advancing energy efficiency can support a greener economy, local empowerment and resilience, gender equality, social justice, and other sustainable development objectives.
HOW WE THINK ABOUT CHANGING SYTEMS
How We Adapt is embedded in international networks of complexity, systems, and resilience thinkers and doers. We facilitate bespoke learning, planning, and engagement processes, drawing on a range of frameworks and methodologies, including systems and stakeholder mapping, theory of change, political economy analysis, and social design thinking.
HOW WE SUPPORT GREEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
A green economy is an inclusive, sustainable economy that supports the health and well-being of social and ecological systems. We engage in research, policy development, strategy, and program design to support the development of local economies that provide business and livelihood opportunities through natural resource efficiency, conservation, and restoration. The transition to a green economy holds the potential to simultaneously address environmental challenges and social issues of access, equity, and justice through bottom-up and top-down transformational strategies.
HOW WE FOSTER RESILIENCE & DECENTRALISED DEVELOPMENT
Resilience is the capacity to continuously adapt to and develop in a dynamic context. It is the ability to respond to destructive natural or social disasters, ​ more fundamental, longer-term shifts like a warming climate, with flexibility and growth. We advocate for and develop locally embedded resilience strategies. While top-down policies and investments remain critical in responding to macro challenges, we believe that decentralized and distributed, people-driven, bottom-up actions are critical to building the capacity for resilient development at all levels.