Many inspiring talks took place during ECCA | European Climate Change Adaptation conference in Dublin, Ireland. Among them the “Enabling innovation and the role of financial flows” plenary session panel featuring Kirsten Dunlop from EIT Climate KIC and Lorenzo Pezzati representing the Council of Europe Development Bank.

Innovation as usual extracts value from nature and generates waste.  It severely degrades our life support system. As a consequence the costs of addressing both mitigation and adaptation are extremely high. Reinventing the way we innovate and looking to nature to upgrade the way we organise our value systems is needed.

Anna Sacio-Szymańska of 4CF The Futures Literacy Company and Alexandra Lima Revez, MaREI, UCCClimate, Media Factory used poetry to reframe assumptions in a 30-minute exercise titled ‘Discovering, reframing, and transforming through poetry’. Participants shared complex ideas and feelings about the future, found new insights and meanings, and probed pathways for addressing challenges arising from climate change.

Also, University College Cork research team provided reflections on reframing knowledge across the art-science-engagement nexus and shared insights about how creative tools can help reframe our visions of change, the future and sustainability by drawing on insights from the Creative Climate Action Programme in Ireland.

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