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Paths to Progress Facing Enduring Deep Uncertainty
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Paths to Progress Facing Enduring Deep Uncertainty

Original Air Date: November 11, 2020, but more relevant than ever!

Too often, politicians and the rest of us choose to wait for clarity before tackling tough, consequential, challenges. News media cover disastrous events far better than underlying drivers of risk - or resilience.

To seek solutions, watch or listen to this Sustain What brainstorm with participants in the 2020 conference of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty – a community focused on making the most out of inconveniently murky reality.

We examined how to assess and communicate effective policies and practices in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, today’s turbulent political landscape, development economics and climate change.

The discussion features David G. Groves of the Rand Corporation; Alejandro Poiré, dean of the School of Government and Public Transformation at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico City and a former secretary of governance in the administration of former Mexican President Felipe Calderón; Julie Rozenberg, an economist with the World Bank Sustainable Development Group.

Your Sustain What host is Andy Revkin, a journalist with 35 years on the climate and calamity beat.

Learn more about the the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty.

Follow our guests on X/Twitter: David G. Groves, Alejandro Poiré, Julia Rozenberg.

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Discussion about this podcast

Sustain What
Sustain What?
Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier.
This program contains audio highlights from hundreds of video webcasts hosted by Andy Revkin, founder of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative for Communication and Sustainability.
Dale Willman is the associate director of the initiative.
Revkin and Willman believe sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom?