Planetary Skin : A global platform for a new Era of Collaboration
Complexity and uncertainty are hallmarks of the early 21st Century – as recent developments in the global financial markets demonstrate all too vividly. Responses to the financial crisis have prominently featured demands for global co–ordination. But, without diminishing the scale of the challenges posed by the financial markets, the rising threat levels from climate change, environmental degradation — and their attendant miseries such as pandemics and poverty — unarguably dwarf those problems. Global co–ordination and collaboration on an unprecedented scale are the only way to address them.
Climate change has become one of top three priorities for most global public sector leaders around the world (certainly in the United States, China, and the European Union), and increasingly for a number of CEOs of large corporations. This is reinforced by the fact that out of US$2.8 trillion earmarked in stimulus programs around the world to date, a full US$450 billion is targeted at developing infrastructures to address mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
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Planetary Skin Video
Planetary Skin proposes a unifying approach to monitoring, measuring, and managing rural environments, rural to urban interconnects, and urban environments. View fullsize
Planetary Skin Point of View
To move to a low carbon economy and adapt to the large-scale risks associated with climate change (and the implied changes to production and consumption), a whole range of actors - – including governments, corporations, research institutions, NGOs and communities – must take a large number (billions) of small and large decisions, one at a time. But they are forced to make these with only very partial information and knowledge about the options, the benefits, costs and the risks of their decisions in the context of increasing complexity and uncertainty. They are, in essence, flying blind without the right decision support environments.
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