Laureline Simon

Founder

Laureline has worked on climate change mitigation and adaptation at the international level since 2006. At the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, she supported the setting up of the Local Communities and Indigenous People’s platform, a task force on population displacements related to climate change, and coordinated Resilience Frontiers, a pioneering collective intelligence process bringing together thought leaders in the fields of digital technology and sustainability. She started her career with the INGO SEWA in India, where women taught her a lot about resilience. She draws inspiration from nature and her two children, who help her daily to take better care of the Earth.

Our 2022 Annual Report

Check out our latest annual report! We present the impacts of all the arts, culture, and education projects we launched to help (young) people grow climate resilience and foster societal transformation through regeneration.

Becoming Climate Artivists

A creative learning journey for Europe-based youth to develop the knowledge and the skills you need to engage in transformative climate work and foster resilience. Learn how you can access the educational material and learning community created from January to April 2024.

Facing the Climate/Colonialism Nexus at the United Nations

With theatre artists Komi Mizrajim Togbonou and Alois Reinhardt, as well as environmental expert Marion Atieno Osieyo, we co-designed a transformative workshop to dive deep into the climate/colonalism nexus with 50 young climate advocates from around the world, prior to the international climate negotiations of June 2023.

Nature’s making, un-making and loss

In collaboration with the Agan Khan Centre Gallery, One Resilient Earth orgnized a nature’s emotions cirle and took part in an interactive panel discussion with artists and scientists involved in the ‘Seeds, Trees and Mountains’ exhibition in London (UK).

Restorying Landscapes in a Changing Climate

‘Restorying Landscapes in a Changing Climate’ explores how artists and culture bearers can support communities in building long-term climate resilience and regenerating their ecosystems, both in the UK and the Philippines. This project is a collaboation between the Living Story Landscapes Project, the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking, and One Resilient Earth, with the support of the British Council.

Facilitating the First Wadden Sea Youth Conference

How can young people care for all living beings in the land and sea that they love? We facilitated the first youth conference for the preservation of the Wadden Sea Natural Heritage site across Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, in collaboration with the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (Germany).

Expressing Climate emotions at COP 26 and 27

In collaboration with the with Potsdam Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, One Resilient Earth facilitated hybrid climate emotions circles during the international climate negotiations held in Glasgow and Sharm el Sheikh. The circles offered the opportunity to bring together climate negotiators and climate advocates in expressing their fears, hopes and dreams.

Cooking as Love and Life

Cooking for me became a way to connect to happiness and to life – my first conscious exercise. You have to eat to be alive, and if you cook, you can give yourself the things you and other people love. Being very connected to the core of life is what cooking and eating means for me.

Festival Sustainability Lab

A collaborative EU-funded project to accelerate the evolution of the cultural and creative sectors, making them more resilient and future-fit. If you work with festivals in Europe, come and learn how to build regeneration and resilience to the climate crisis through arts, culture and community-making.

Flourish! A Youth Learning Journey of Climate Resilience and Regeneration

A youth learning journey to foster climate resilience and regeneration through inspiring stories, powerful artworks, impactful tools and an online community. Interactive workshops targeted Europe-based youth but remained open to all students, activists and young professionals around the world. A short-video series with key messages of the learning journey is online!

Launching ‘Re-story-ing Landscapes in a Changing Climate’

Join the virtual launch of ‘Restorying Landscapes in a Changing Climate’, on Friday 29 July at 1pm CET, and discover our new creative project in collaboration with the Living Story Landscapes Project (Philippines), and the Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking (United Kingdom).

Exploring caring and climate-resilient futures at the United Nations

Through collaborations with artists and a future literacy expert, we explored climate emotions, as well as caring and climate-resilient futures with 35 young climate advocates from aroung the world at the United Nations Climate Change secretariat.

Listening to Nemonte Nenquimo in Bonn

Come and listen to Nemonte Nenquimo, Indigenous Waorani leader, winner of the United Nations’ Champions of the Earth Award, on Tuesday 7 June, from 5 to 6 pm CET, at the Alanus University in Bonn/Alfter. The public talk will be in Spanish with German translation.

Taking part in Ecotopia in Berlin

Visit Ecotopia, an immersive and interactive exhibition about our eco-future, led by a Berlin-based artists collective, in Berlin from 15 May to 3 July 2022. The One Resilient Earth team will host ‘Earth Lovers Circles’ during the New European Bauhaus Festival on 11-12 June.

Feeling climate emotions at the Wellbeing Summit

Take part in the Wellbeing Summit in Bilbao-Biscay on 31 May – 3 June, and join our session to feel and reflect on climate emotions, as well as on the role of the arts and deep listening to restore emotional and mental health.