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For a Glocal World
For a Glocal World
In collaboration with the Manitoba Chambers of Commerce, the Manitoba Environmental Industries Association (MEIA), and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), we are pleased to offer several free virtual and in-person training opportunities for businesses to learn new approaches and share what they are doing to assess climate risk & enhance resilience, reduce carbon emissions via the circular economy, and use nature-based solutions.
The Manitoba Chambers of Commerce 2023 Climate Action Training Series is designed to help build awareness & capacity and share experiences among Manitoba’s small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
In-person and virtual training sessions are being offered from April through June 2023 across Manitoba in collaboration with local Chambers of Commerce and Sector Associations.
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Addressing commingled social, economic and environmental issues in the twenty-first century require that we respect history and think creatively about the future. Novel Futures uses foresight, scenario planning, and systems thinking to help United Nations agencies, international organizations, governments, businesses and communities envision and achieve sustainability and resilience, globally and locally.
The twenty-first century world is complex, ever-changing and full of surprise. Novel Futures assists United Nations agencies, international organizations, governments, businesses and communities with adaptive planning, creating adaptive policies, risk reduction and building resilience. Novel Futures Director, Darren Swanson, co-edited and co-wrote the book 'Creating Adaptive Policies' and is a certified Infrastructure Resilience Professional (IRP) with training and experience in climate science, risk assessment, asset management, and climate law and policy.
All countries of the United Nations have adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 global sustainable development (SDGs). Since the SDGs were adopted in 2015, Novel Futures Director, Darren Swanson, has provided strategy, facilitation and training support to several United Nations agencies for SDG implementation. Building on this expertise and together with Darren's experience in corporate strategy and reporting, Novel Futures also supports financial institutions, international organizations, businesses and communities in their collective efforts toward social responsibility, sustainability and achieving the SDGs, locally and globally.
Darren founded Novel Futures to fuse his compassion for sustainable, resilient and peaceful societies with his passion for respecting history, understanding the present and exploring the future...to bring sustainable development to the heart of decision-making in the 21st century, be it in the government office, the corporate boardroom or the household kitchen.
Darren works closely with United Nations agencies, governments, businesses, international NGOs, and community organizations around the world to facilitate strategic planning exercises and multi-stakeholder meetings, and to provide consulting services and public speaking for sustainable development.
As a strategic management expert and professional engineer, Darren draws from a diverse policy-science knowledge base, with masters degrees in public administration and international development from the Harvard Kennedy School and geo-environmental engineering from the University of Saskatchewan.
As a member of the Rotary Club of Downtown Winnipeg - the club that made Rotary International - Novel Futures Director Darren Swanson served as past chairperson of the organizing committee of the Winnipeg Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA). For over 60 years now, high school students from across Canada and the United States meet in Winnipeg, or virtually online, to debate and strive for consensus on real-world issues.
Darren Swanson is a past Co-Chair of the Honouring Indigenous Peoples (HIP) Committee of the Rotary Club of Winnipeg. HIP is a national effort of Rotary Club's in Canada with the mission to promote awareness of Indigenous knowledge systems, culture, history and inherent rights in Canada and to invest time and resources in support of Indigenous education initiatives.
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Novel Futures Corporation acknowledges that it meets, creates and innovates on Traditional Land of the First Nations, Treaty One Territory and the Homeland of the Metis. Novel Futures recognizes that the clean water we drink in our Winnipeg headquarters is sourced from the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.