Why climate resilience solutions are context- and culture-specific
The examples of Japan and Peru show why climate solutions like early warning systems are only successful if they are developed with local communities.
Dr Chitresh Saraswat builds the architecture to translate scientific insights into action. As a Fellow at the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University, his research advances science diplomacy, anticipatory governance, emerging technology policy, and sustainability transformations across the Global South. He focuses on how emerging technologies (Quantum & AI) and foresight thinking can reshape sustainability agendas, and how gamification and anticipatory tools can make scientific insights tangible for diverse stakeholders. As an André Hoffmann Fellow (alumni) at the World Economic Forum, he co-authored the industry white paper “Catalysing Business Engagement in Early Warning Systems” with WMO, launched at Davos 2025, focused on advancing early warning science into actionable multilateral policy architecture. His decade of science diplomacy practice spans embedding scientific foresight into multilateral processes at the UN agencies, the technology industry, think tanks, and academia. He is a founder of a quantum-AI urban water venture that is connecting research to market innovation. He has over 2,050 scholarly citations and is the author of a book on "Sustainable Solutions for Urban Water Security".
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chitresh-saraswat-96605225/