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Linking Resilience and Climate: Resources from ResilienceLinks and Climatelinks

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04 Dec, 2023

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Linking Resilience and Climate: Resources from ResilienceLinks and Climatelinks
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Fri, 12/01/2023 – 15:41

Today’s program at COP28 includes a focus on relief and recovery, themes closely tied to resilience. Resilience is the ability of people, households, communities, countries, and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a way that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth. Climate resilience refers to the capacity of a system to maintain function in the face of stresses imposed by climate change and adapt to be better prepared for future climate impacts.

As part of USAID’s 2022-2030 Climate Strategy, the Agency is committed to supporting and scaling actions that build the climate resilience of people, places, ecosystems, and livelihoods vulnerable to climate change. One of its six high-level targets is to enable the improved climate resilience of 500 million people.

Given the importance of climate resilience to climate adaptation, ResilienceLinks and Climatelinks are highlighting some resources that explore the issue in depth. ResilienceLinks is a learning space guided by USAID’s Center for Resilience and managed by the USAID Feed the Future initiative that empowers humanitarian and development professionals with the tools to build a world where communities can withstand crises and thrive.

Here are some climate-related resources on ResilienceLinks to help humanitarian and development practitioners understand how their resilience work intersects with climate change programming. 

How to Increase Financing for Urban Climate Adaptation and Resilience: 7 Key Actions for National Governments to Take

National governments can play a key role in enabling and scaling financing for urban adaptation. This policy brief presents key actions for national policymakers around the world to increase the amount of available finance for cities to respond to climate risks. 

Resilience Evidence Forum 2023 Synthesis Report

In a world grappling with escalating crises, including climate change, resilience has never been more critical. The Resilience Evidence Forum 2023 Synthesis Report serves as a guide to resilience-building methodologies and evidence and offers actionable insights to inform investment, policy, and decision making. 

Climate Related Game Changers Research: Enhancing Adaptation Program Impact to Address Climate Change 

With communities already feeling the impacts of climate change, the Climate Related Game Changers report identifies three key areas of knowledge gaps that are inhibiting climate-related development programming and suggests innovative ways forward based on current research. 

ResilienceLinks Newsletter: How Do Climate Finance & Migration Relate to Climate Adaptation Programming?

Climate adaptation programming is an important part of broader efforts to build overall resilience in countries and communities. This newsletter focuses on two important aspects of climate adaptation: climate finance and migration.

Visit ResilienceLinks for more insights and resources.

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ABB receives EPD status for gearless mill drive ring motor

ABB has gained Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) status for its Gearless Mill Drive (GMD) ring motor — technology used to drive large grinding mills in the mining industry.

An EPD is a standardised document that provides detailed information about the environmental impact of a product throughout its life cycle. Based on a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study, the EPD highlights ABB’s commitment to transparency, environmental responsibility and supporting customers in making informed decisions on sustainability in their supply chains.

ABB analysed the environmental impact of a ring motor across its entire life cycle from supply chain and production to usage and end-of-life disposal. The study was conducted for a ring motor of a semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill with an installed power of 24 MW and was based on a reference service life of 25 years.

“Sustainability is at the core of our purpose at ABB, influencing how we operate and innovate for customers,” said Andrea Quinta, Sustainability Specialist at ABB. “By earning the Environmental Product Declaration for our ring motor, we emphasise our environmental stewardship and industry leadership for this technology. We adhered to the highest standards throughout this process, as we do in the ABB Ring Motor factory every day. This recognition highlights to the mining industry what they are bringing into their own operations when they work with ABB.”

The comprehensive LCA was conducted at ABB’s factory in Bilbao, Spain, and was externally verified and published in accordance with international standards ISO 14025 and ISO 14040/14044. It will remain valid for five years.

The ring motor, a key component of the GMD, is a drive system without any gears where the transmission of the torque between the motor and the mill is done through the magnetic field in the air gap between the motor stator and the motor rotor. It optimises grinding applications in the minerals and mining industries by enabling variable-speed operation, leading to energy and cost savings.

The full EPD for the ABB GMD Ring Motor can be viewed on EPD International.

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