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Regenerate Costa Rica + Blue Marble Baseline = Learning by Doing
Regenerate Costa Rica is an initiative by the University for International Cooperation launched in 2018.
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Evaluation Criteria for Evaluating Transformation: Implications for the Coronavirus Pandemic and the Global Climate Emergency
Fundamental systems transformations are needed to address the global emergency brought on by climate change and related global trends, including the COVID-19 pandemic, which, together, pose existential threats to the future of humanity. Transformation has become the clarion call on the global stage. Evaluating transformation requires criteria. The revised Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development/Development Assistance Committee criteria are adequate for business as usual summative and accountability evaluations but are inadequate for addressing major systems transformations.
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Michael Quinn Patton
Year
2020
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Effects of transformations to climate-neutral societies on low- and middle-income countries
Sida-commissioned report demonstrates how good business intentions might “bite back” in low- and middle-income countries and offers insights into how to avoid it.
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Per Olsen
Year
2020
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Fostering an Intergenerational Approach to Transforming Evaluation
This webinar is now complete. Please watch the recording via YouTube or click here to watch the webinar on zoom.
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The Love in Deep Adaptation – A Philosophy for the Forum
In this blog, Jem Bendell and Katie Carr explore "deep Adaptation" - the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-induced collapse of our societies
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Jem Bendell and Katie Carr
Year
2019
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Evaluation and the Challenge of Our Time - AEA Panel Follow-up Conversation
This webinar will provide a space for panelists from a recent AEA session on the climate crisis to continue the conversation and answer questions
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Reflection on Curves: Pandemic curves, climate curves, social justice curves, and humanity’s learning curve
It seems like a long, long time ago when the clarion call for managing the coronavirus pandemic was flattening the curve, but it was only seven months ago. In this blog, Michael explores what Blue Marble Evaluation lessons can we extract from the impact of the curve?
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Evaluation in the Face of the Climate Emergency: Observations & Synthesis
Guest Blue Marble Evaluation blog from Scott C. Chaplowe, a dedicated evaluation professional with over 20 years’ experience working with civic, public and private organizations seeking sustainable solutions for social and environmental challenges.
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Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050
Safely achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement requires a worldwide transformation to carbon-neutral societies within the next 30 years. Accelerated technological progress and policy implementations are required to deliver emissions reductions at rates sufficiently fast to avoid crossing dangerous tipping points in the Earth’s climate system.
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Ilona M. Otto, Jonathan F. Donges, Roger Cremades, Avit Bhowmik, Richard J. Hewitt, Wolfgang Lucht, Johan Rockström, Franziska Allerberger, Mark McCaffrey, Sylvanus S. P. Doe, Alex Lenferna, Nerea Morán, Detlef P. van Vuuren and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Year
2020
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48 Years of Alaska's Glaciers
Time-lapse videos of Earth’s glaciers and ice sheets as seen from space – spanning nearly 50 years – are providing scientists with new insights into how the planet’s frozen regions are changing.
Year
2019
