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I attended the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions last week and addressed a number of sessions on how we scale up and accelerate private sector action to stop nature loss and secure a nature positive world by 2030. Some insights from the discussions: 📈 We need to tackle the nature and climate crises as inter-related issues, and to address the shared root causes: the unintended consequences of current approaches to economic activity and growth. This means bringing climate and nature into discussions on growth, productivity and innovation, not treating them as parallel tracks. 💡 We need innovation at scale to develop clean, green solutions. But innovation alone is not enough. If we are going to rapidly transition/phase out damaging activities, we need to not only focus on the 'carrots' of win-wins and opportunities, we also need hard discussions about 'sticks' and what we will stop doing.  💵 We need market-based solutions, but markets aren't currently driving enough progress - in fact they all too often punish companies that disrupt short term commerciality. We need policy action and governance to tilt markets so they value/reward business action to build long term value and resilience, to ensure that money moves as a result of assessments and disclosures. ⌛ At a time in which we are seeing devastating losses of human life caused by extreme heatwaves, there is still too little sense of urgency. We are not yet collectively rolling up our sleeves to get serious about the change that is needed.  👉 We need leadership, and that starts with all of us. As one speaker at the forum said, we are focusing all of our time perfecting the vision of the metaphorical car we want to build in future, and paying insufficient attention to the driver who has to step on the pedal.  Many thanks to World Economic Forum (WEF) for hosting me and CISL colleague, Jie Zhou, and to my fellow attendees for the rich conversations, including Naoko Ishi, Director, Center for Global Commons, University of Tokyo; Jingdong Hua, Vice-Chair, International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB); Gim Neo , Managing Director of the Centre for Nature and Climate, WEF; Magdalena Skipper, World Economic Forum; André Hoffmann, Author, The New Nature of Business.    #AMNC24 #WEF

On March 6-7th, 2024 I will participate to the GoNaturePositive! (#GoNP) Kick-off Event in Dublin, IE, as a member of the Impact Board, looking particularly at the strategic, governance and ethical issues. In line with the European Green Deal priorities, in particular the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 and the revised climate targets, GoNP - a collaborative Research and Innovation Action supported by the European Commission in the context of the #horizoneurope programme - will contribute to the development of policies and market conditions to scale up and accelerate the implementation of nature positive economic activities with particular focus on Nature-based Solutions (#NBS). It will promote mainstreaming of #biodiversity, #ecosystemservices and natural capital valuation in the society and economy. I strongly recommend to my network members to register to this event, which will debate clarity of concepts around nature positive economy (e.g., #circulareconomy, #sustainablebioeconomy), spur new knowledge and expertise of relevant stakeholders in both public and private sectors (incl. economic and financial decision-makers), promote EU global leadership in nature based enterprises, design new enabling policy, regulations, support, tools, and capacity building measures towards better integration of innovative nature-based entrepreneurship and nature-based solutions in the current economic and financial system, and of course support the implementation of the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 and the related European Green Deal priorities. https://lnkd.in/eYPZNjSm

On Pambianconews we discussed our innovative journey, emphasizing the integral role of research and our unwavering commitment to the values that have shaped us. Read the full article, here: https://lnkd.in/dU5NTK-k

Last week, we had our Climate-KIC All Staff gathering in Berlin, it's always a highlight of my year. I'm reminded time and time again of the caliber, expertise and drive that my colleagues have, and how ambitious we are to make real change. My personal takeaways - EU priorities are changing, we all need to do our part to ensure climate change continues to be a top priority for the decades to come. I strongly recommend you read this: https://lnkd.in/eu4u9hRH and if you can, vote in the upcoming EU elections! - Learning is a priority for Climate-KIC: They say "innovation and learning are two sides of the same coin". We are improving our internal reflection, but we can do more to improve cross-cluster exchange, knowledge management and trust. Building on the opportunity I co-led a workshop on how to build a culture of trust in remote/distributed organizations - emphasizing that trustworthiness is built from reliability, honesty and capability. Shout out to Brian Lally Evgenija Damcevska Lea Hanzelová for their support! - EIT Climate KIC's role in championing and driving the "Systemic Climate Collaborative" is hugely ambitious and an attempt to turn competition into collaboration around common impact goals. We need to stop competing for funding and instead join forces with the many excellent partners in the field. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eVyZ_X9D - Climate-KIC's work is increasingly global, we operate across Sub-Saharan and West Africa, in Central and South America and we even have an office in Australia! - We have some incredibly talented leaders in the organisation. For me personally, I'd like to give a special shout out to Solla Zophoniasdottir Saskia Visser for their continual support and guidance! I've also witnessed a lot of leadership emerging from colleagues that step up and champion important initiatives internally. Big shout out to everyone that supported, designed, and organised this event!! Elena Trutnau Inna Chilik Karolina Iwa

We had a great workshop with like-minded scholars, talking about how we can incorporate systems thinking and systems theories into our research and projects. Hopefully more to come soon! #systems #systemsthinking

Excited to be on stage in Reykjavik tomorrow with the World Future Studies Federation to talk about how values impact tomorrow’s democracies! In light of the recent global tragedies, we need more than ever to care, trust and unite. We need to see the purpose of democracies. The paradox is that the opposite seems to be the trend, resulting in more autocratic leaders coming into power. Together in the conference we will explore which values that will be more important to strengthen in democracies for the future. Any suggestions? Leif Edvinsson Hank Kune Yngvar Ugland Anders Hvide Karl Friðriksson

🤔 How can strong coalitions lead to achieving the SDGs? Welcome to the Caux Inner Development Goals Forum! Our five-day event started in Geneva, leveraging the Inner Development Goals Framework and Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation's methodologies honed over 75 years. 🌍 Diverse Participation: With 200 participants from 45 countries, the kick-off event featured distinguished speakers, including Tatiana Valovaya(Director General of the United Nations Office in Geneva), Ambassador Christian Guillermet (Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the UN Office) and Prof. Rajmohan Gandhi (historian & grandson of Mahatma Gandhi). 💬 Key Learnings: - Tatiana Valovaya: We live in a time of transformative change. With only 17% of SDG indicators met, it's time for all of us to participate actively. - Christian Guillermet Fernández: The Inner Development Goals can guide governments, communities, and businesses towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. - Louise Le Gat: We need to upgrade the operating system of our planet rapidly. The unknown and unstable are our new normal. - Jan Artem Henriksson: We must lean on wisdom traditions and scientific practices, making inner change a collective habit. - Rajmohan: We are all connected through a shared heritage. I am a rich man because I embrace the richness of our shared human heritage. 🔍 Key Question for Reflection from Asmaa Sleem: Do you have the courage to learn from your mistakes? 🌟 Stay Tuned: This is only the start of an inspiring journey. More updates and insights to come this week! #CauxIDG #InnerDevelopmentGoals Rafaela Rolim Monica Barroso, PhD Pontus Holmgren Ignacio Packer Jacqueline Coté Sarah Noble

In 2023, the world faced extraordinary challenges that required a level of resolve and resourcefulness that could not have been achieved in isolation. Drawing from over seven decades of learnings, we partnered with local leaders, governments, civil society and the private sector to meet urgent needs and lay the groundwork for lasting, community-driven development. Our Impact Recap 2023 Annual Report highlights what we were able to accomplish together, across five continents and in nearly 30 countries. Explore encouraging numbers, testimonials and brief summaries from our extraordinary global program teams to learn more about how we helped to create meaningful and measurable change last year: https://lnkd.in/g6QpyTSE

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My talk at the IUCN Leaders Forum, Geneva tomorrow: ‘Driving Global Economies and Smart Political Decision-Making’  Every single field observation, data point and published science paper helps to drive global economies and influence smart political decision-making. Understanding global issues, and our response to them, is based on field work. It’s where the numbers come from! See you there. I look forward to your insights and difficult questions! 😅 IUCN Impact https://lnkd.in/e-M7a2x3