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Foresight

Emergency Planning

It shows up failure to avoid provocation between states, failure to predict and mitigate conflict, failure to make sufficient progress in the transition away from dependency on fossil fuels, and failure to resolve disputes in the global arena. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a cascading disaster with global ramifications.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). Globally, about a thousand times as much is spent on hydrocarbon exploration and extraction than on the mitigation of the climate change that results from burning fossil fuels (Mechler et al. Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

I am sure the emergency planners of Kensington and Chelsea had a compliant emergency plan, but when it was used in the response to the Grenfell fire, it failed. For me, the examples demonstrated that Adaptive BC is not very different to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2013, which many of us work to.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

I am sure the emergency planners of Kensington and Chelsea had a compliant emergency plan, but when it was used in the response to the Grenfell fire, it failed. For me, the examples demonstrated that Adaptive BC is not very different to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2013, which many of us work to.