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By Roland Kupers

The ever tighter linking of our meals, water, and effort structures within the context of a altering weather is resulting in expanding turbulence on the planet. thus, it turns into ever extra an important to boost towns, areas, and economies with resilience in brain. as a result of multinational companies’ worldwide succeed in, large assets, and information-driven management buildings, those entities can play a big, optimistic function in bettering our figuring out and layout of resilient systems.
 
This quantity is the manufactured from the Resilience motion Initiative, a collaboration between Dow, DuPont, IBM, McKinsey, Shell, Siemens, Swiss Re, Unilever, and Yara designed to discover attainable company contributions to international resilience, specifically on the nexus of water, nutrients, and effort. Aggressively forward-thinking and in line with an enlightened self-interest, the information thought of right here signify a company point of view at the wide collaborations required for a extra resilient world.

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