GLOBAL NERVE SYSTEMS: How World Wide Disasters are Interconnected (EN)

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What does the elephant migration in southern China have to do with the famine in Madagascar? How are the forest fires in Europe connected with the floods in Lagos?

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ZITA SEBESVARI, a climate researcher based in Bonn, describes how, as a result of climate change, one catastrophe triggers another – and which screws need to be turned to alleviate them. ZITA is lead author of the annual „Interconnected Disaster Risks“ report of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn (UNU-EHS). The report is being picked up by media around the world, not least of all because of its unusual design by the London-based agency TEMPLO. Read the report: https://interconnectedrisks.org

Together with ZITA, TEMPLO’s Creative Director PALI PALAVATHANAN explains how the challenges of climate change can be presented in a way that makes solutions visible.

ZITA and PALI share their global view with the artist GRACE NDIRITU, who incorporates diverse Indigenous economies and knowledge systems into her work. ‘Museums are dying’, argues GRACE, who seeks to heal the relationship with the planet through shamanistic performances.

‘How World Wide Disasters Are Interconnected’ is the start of the new STUDIO BONN series ‘GLOBAL NERVE SYSTEMS’. Here, scientists, artists, and public officials discuss which senses we need to sharpen and which new narratives and world views are necessary in order to face coming disasters. THE GUESTS The renowned environmental researcher ZITA SEBESVARI is Deputy Director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn and one of the three main authors of the ‘Interconnected Disaster Risks’ report. https://ehs.unu.edu/experts/researchexperts/sebesvari-zita.html#profile

PALI PALAVATHANAN co-founded TEMPLO together with Anoushka Rodda in 2013. The London-based branding and digital agency is committed to their ethos ‘Creativity for Change’. In addition to the United Nations, TEMPLO’s clients include Greenpeace, Migrant Help, and Amnesty International. https://ehs.unu.edu/experts/researchexperts/sebesvari-zita.html#profile

The work of Grace Ndiritu is represented in numerous collections. Her second book, ‘Being Together: A Manual for Living’, was published in September 2022: https://ehs.unu.edu/experts/researchexperts/sebesvari-zita.html#profile

For more on this topic, hear also the EXCHANGE VALUES: "Contracts for Earth" on the crisis of climate diplomacy and the benefits of Indigenous technologies.

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