[ Tim Helweg-Larsen and Jo Abbess hold their first task management meeting at the offices of COIN the Climate Outreach Information Network in Oxford. On the list of outputs is a spellchecked version of the mission and aims of the Animated Resources organisation. See below... ] Animated Resources is an Oxford based think-tank providing analysis and communications on key global issues. Our products are "e-briefings" – computer animated policy documents that present complex systems analysis in a format that can rapidly be understood. Central to our approach is identifying key global issues and the systems that they represent and interact with. Animated Resources is currently working on an e-briefing on "Peak Oil". Over the next two years we will be producing a series of briefings on :- * Oil These topics are hugely interrelated, however Animated Resources will produce a separate e-briefing for each of them. These will not only work in concert but will stand alone as comprehensive briefings for anyone who wishes to understand the underlying systems that give rise to our world today and our options for the future. Animated Resources' next project will be the Climate Change e-briefing. Tim Helweg-Larsen and Jo Abbess have been working intensively in this field for many years and the Cimate e-briefing will draw on their collective research and contacts and extensive experience in communicating the issue. This includes animations presented to the UK Environmental Audit Committee, the World Bank and the UNFCCC. At the heart of the communication is a recognition firstly that solutions cannot be adequately mobilised without a stark understanding of the seriousness and urgency of the problem. And secondly that the problem is debilitation without effective solutions. Climate change in Britain has at least entered the public consciousness. What has yet to be understood intellectually, let alone internalised emotionally, is the accelerating nature of the problem, the fact that there is a point of no return, beyond which our best efforts are null and void, and that the consequences of failure are that the majority of the world’s population will not live out their natural lives. Positive feedback mechanisms are the elements of climate science that are simultaneously least understood and most profound in the dangerous dynamics that threaten our future. Work is being done around the world to better understand these mechanisms. This work is essential both to science and the world at large and will underpin the first half of the "Climate e-briefing". Alongside the problem we will be revealing the solutions. Individual action that can empower the self in the face of these issues, and global systems-based solutions that are commensurate with the scale of the problem. Here the work of the Global Commons Institute and the policy proposal of Contraction and Convergence will play a central role in mapping a survivable path into the future. The Climate e-briefing has the potential to act as a key communication as we understand and respond to humanity’s greatest challenge. |
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