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How can we actually DO it? This new three-part video series created by the Legacy Project as part of Bioregional Earth, takes a candid, pragmatic, in-depth look at the theory and practice of funding regenerative work in bioregions. It starts with a look at the big picture, and then zooms into two case studies – one in the GTB (Greater Tkaronto Bioregion, Canada) and the other in Barichara, Colombia. View all three videos to understand the interplay and the on-the-ground realities. https://lnkd.in/gdmvmtkf

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This update from the team at Climate Interactive is just another example of why the #EnROADS climate simulator is such a powerful tool to help improve anyone’s climate literacy. This blog post will get you to experience the simulator in a small way. It’s a great read and experience! More broadly the En-ROADS workshops and games are literally in a league of their own when it comes to experiential learning. I have never once used this simulator in a workshop without attendees commenting on how it helped them understand the challenges we face and the solutions we ALREADY have at our disposal. Every business should be using this tool to improve climate literacy in their organisations. There are two ways to do this, get a team member trained up on how to use it or get a En-ROADS Climate Embassdor to host a workshop/game for you. (See https://lnkd.in/dthH7U5k) #CliamteLiteracy #Leadership

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The Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund is open for round 4 discovery projects and yours truly is looking for collaborators! I do business model innovation work for smart and local energy systems. I am looking for partners and #DNO #DSO #smartenergy projects that: 1) Use solar, storage, evs and flexibility to solve network problems while involving local communities. 2) Want to explore impacts on scale up finance and partnerships outside the energy industry, involving new players 3) Need a research work package to bring together diverse interests and values, from commercial decision making to community engagement and policy/regulatory #innovation. DMs open, [email protected] https://lnkd.in/eA7cgSDz

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The Peace-Led Climate Friendly Sustainable Development Forum The Climate-Gender-Conflict Nexus Amplifying women's contributions at the grassroots https://lnkd.in/gUwDpCtC

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As we head towards year’s end in the face of much negative news on climate and sustainability, three very recent publications remind us what is at stake and how we can still deliver the transformation we need to secure a sustainable future.  Yesterday's publication of a review by Johan Rockström and colleagues marks the fifteenth anniversary of the #PlanetaryBoundaries (PB) telling the story of this groundbreaking framework. It traces its history, ongoing development and impact since 2009, and explores future applications of PB science. It crucially provides a context for sustainable development and informs strategies to deliver global sustainability. Press Release: https://lnkd.in/eaTXiKe6 Paper: https://lnkd.in/ezwwvQg8 The recent first Planetary Health Check (PHC) from Planetary Boundaries Science sets out where we stand on each of the PBs in 2024, providing a comprehensive assessment and setting a benchmark for future annual PHCs. While confirming that six of the nine planetary boundaries have been breached, with a seventh perilously close, it also highlights the role of government, business and civil society in returning earth systems to the Safe Operating Space. Report: https://lnkd.in/e-twa2u9 Website: https://lnkd.in/eAkeRiQW Meanwhile, this week’s paper by Bjoern Soergel and colleagues explores three potential sustainable development pathways (SDPs) to achieving global climate and sustainable development goals. It’s the first research to systematically compare these varied pathways, providing a “global multi-scenario and multi-modal analysis” that shows substantial progress is still possible. Press Release: https://lnkd.in/eNq6r9PE Paper: https://lnkd.in/eiJmRgPA Interactive Visualisation and Scenario Data: https://lnkd.in/eTsJ5kcP As with any journey, we need to know where we are today, where we want to get to and how we can get there. Together they offer a profoundly powerful shared language for visualising and planning for a sustainable future, defining the scope and scale of the challenge we face but also offer a clear, viable set of paths. Each of these paths has profound implications, and enormous opportunities, in terms of innovation and change for businesses, governments and broader civil society. So let’s pick ourselves up, dust ourselves down and get to it. #sustainability #planetaryboundaries #climate #changemanagement #innovation

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🌍 Accelerate High Quality Outcomes-based Projects 🌟 📅 Deadline: August 26, 2024 The Outcomes Accelerator is inviting applications for high-quality Outcomes-Based Funding (OBF) projects. This program offers flexible funding, targeted expertise, and networking support to help test, launch, and scale innovative initiatives aimed at making a significant impact across various sectors. The Outcomes Accelerator is a catalytic platform to accelerate more effective testing, scaling and the eventual mainstreaming of outcomes-based financing (OBF) approaches into the delivery of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) impact. The Outcomes Accelerator works with stakeholders across the outcomes-based financing ecosystem – including governments, development agencies, investors, services providers, intermediaries, and knowledge partners – to address the key barriers facing the market and unlock funding for high-quality outcomes-based financing projects. 🔗 For more information, visit https://lnkd.in/dSuTB427 #CommunityDevelopment #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateAction #Innovation

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Introducing Culture Hack Labs latest Issue, Beyond the Carbon Fixation: Pathways to Regenerative Futures, in collaboration with Ma Earth. This research sets out with the intention of finding pathways to liberate land, waters, ecosystems, and communities from the enclosures of capitalism and colonialism. Beyond the carbon-centered approaches to the climate crisis limited by reductionist metrics and market-driven solutions are alternate pathways already embodied by living examples. These pathways —rooted in justice, solidarity, community stewardship, regenerative economies, and shifts towards more ecological consciousness—when interwoven, can serve as a navigational tool for systems change. 📜 Check out the Issue here: https://bit.ly/3Vpwmaa 📅 Join a webinar this Friday, Dec 6 at 11am PST: https://bit.ly/3CYr3I5 #beyondcarbon #pathwaystoregenerativefutures #regenerationpathways #possibilitymodels #systemschange #islandsofcoherence

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A big day for Regenerative Futures Fund today! We now have £4.75m committed from a group of funders - which is absolutely mind blowing. This is new money committed by funders who want to take a system change approach to tackling the roots of poverty, racism and the climate emergency in Edinburgh. The most incredible amount of work has gone into this achievement by so many including my colleagues in each funding org. Lots more about this soon - about what it takes to get to this stage. This is part of the overall £15m 10-year pooled fund. The funding committed by the founding funders is contingent on a contribution (of money plus their time and a commitment to change) by the local authority - City of Edinburgh Council. After an in-principle decision to support this over the long-term was made by Policy & Sustainability Committee in August (plus three papers Jan, May and Aug - and a number of briefings between January and now) today City of Edinburgh Councillors will make a decision on their contribution. Here is the paper - https://t.co/VHJD4c7jWk The webcast will be live from 10.05 today and our item should be discussed around 11am - https://t.co/NKjrZgL8P4

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Some really important new research from UNEP-WCMC, showing just how valuable investing in nature can be - for the UK, it's suggested that for every £1 invested in closing the natural capital gap, £34 will be returned in benefits. This benefit-cost ratio is well above the average for the 40 countries considered.     The total potential net benefit for the United Kingdom is about £1 trillion over the period 2021 to 2030.    The potential benefits are huge, not least as these figures are likely to be underestimates. They show how much of an opportunity there is for investing in nature and the scale of rewards to us all, as we tangibly see nature's recovery over time and for generations to come. This report follows recent research from Green Finance Institute that shared nature loss could lead to an estimated 6-12% loss of GDP in the coming years, greater than that in the global financial and Covid-19 crises.  Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eGRReRPy  #Economy #NatureBasedSolutions #Investment

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We have just "two years to save the world"! SWISP lab has just been rewatching Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, Simon Stiell, laying out what needs to be done by #COP30, and its long-term significance. We think that we need to think creatively about incorporating the Anthropocene into our curricula and to advocate for comprehensive interdisciplinary relational climate education and creative climate pedagogies as activism. The Anthropocene event is a literacy that we must all be fluent in. #climateedcuation #climatepedagogy #hacktheAnthropocene https://lnkd.in/gxA2ySKj

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How do we hack the global financial system and bring vital monetary flows into regenerative efforts all over the world? Here is a good place to start.

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The "energy system sciences" indicate that focusing on #diversity, #flow and intricate structures in human and socio-ecological #networks can be a foundation for long-term and equitable thriving. In many ways, this is about extending the lessons from "fire-adapted communities," grounded in "Indigenous knowing," regarding what it means to tend to the holistic #health of the forested landscape – the importance of considering and conserving biodiversity, #care-fully choosing interventions and disturbances that encourage #resilience and new growth, and suppoting those who know local landscapes the best to act ... https://lnkd.in/esVquHy

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 Climate change and biodiversity policies have largely evolved in isolation, even though the two crises are deeply intertwined. They have their own UN summits, with the same name and numbering system: the UN biodiversity summit Cop16 just concluded in Colombia, while the climate summit Cop29 also concluded in Azerbaijan. Confusingly, there’s also a summit on desertification in Saudi Arabia in December 2024, also called Cop16. The three summits in quick succession make this is an important opportunity to align these agendas. Healthy ecosystems are crucial for climate resilience, while a stable climate is essential to protecting biodiversity. One recent study https://lnkd.in/eYdTD8yd revealed that global net zero commitments may demand around 990 million hectares of land for carbon removal by 2060. That’s an area nearly the size of the US and equivalent to two-thirds of the world’s cropland. This poses serious risks to biodiversity and food security, especially in regions where land is scarce and competition is fierce. The projected impacts are troubling: lower-income nations, particularly in Africa, have pledged disproportionately large land areas for carbon removal, often benefiting high-emitting industrialized nations or oil-producing states. This raises concerns about land appropriation and food insecurity. In some cases, pledged areas even exceed a country’s total land area, underscoring unrealistic and overestimated goals. The scientific consensus is clear: we cannot address climate change by industrialising the biosphere. Effective climate solutions must protect ecosystem integrity and support biodiversity, not compromise them for carbon gains. This requires not only stronger coordination between the UN’s climate, biodiversity and desertification conventions, but more inclusive governance structures that amplify the leadership of Indigenous peoples, whose lands are home to large swathes of the world’s biodiversity and carbon.

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In the middle of a heatwave, I am representing Rabin Martin at the London Climate Action Week's Climate Action | Innovation Forum 2024. How ironic… Today, we are discussing the importance of private sector investment in addressing climate change and the need for policy accountability, support, and stability. There needs to be a urgent focus on sustainable energy solutions to overcome barriers like low ROI in renewables and reliance on harmful emissions. Investment in infrastructure crucial for successful transition. Key action items: 1. 70% of the world's population will live in cities by 2050, we must address the role of cities and climate action, including building sustainable and appropriate infrastructure to meet demand. 2. Data is the key to unlocking issues and directing investment – around data use to identify issues, challenges, IPO moratoriums, and infrastructure barriers. 3. Scaling of innovative solutions that can improve energy access and standards, particularly addressing health equity issues such as gender. 4. Sector-specific implementation pathways to support countries' climate commitments. 5. Address barriers to private investment like risk perception, cost of capital, and lack of local presence for investors in Africa. 6. Health systems need financing to adapt to the impact of climate change, and education is needed for healthcare companies to support meaningful ESG commitments. We must continue to share experiences on overcoming challenges to accelerate climate action, but discussion must be complemented with commitment from all stakeholders including private sector and governments. #climateactionweek #climatechange #healthequity

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Very excited to share my latest piece in Forbes - "Adaptation and resilience in corporate climate agendas" If any of the below resonates, esp. with those working on adaptation + resilience and/or corporate climate + sustainability - our team at Riffle Ventures would love to hear from you! Main idea - climate adaptation and resilience can be an innovation driver for companies and we need to accelerate this agenda. 🏭 Most discussions around corporations and their climate agendas focus on if, how, and how quickly, big businesses are reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as decreasing their own negative externalities on the natural environment. 💰 However, in parallel climate change is creating growing financial, infrastructure, health and other risks that could disrupt large companies, some of which is already happening. While the tools and strategies for decarbonization are fairly well-covered, we are only scratching the surface when it comes to building resilience and adapting to a warming planet. 🈺 Of course, emissions and corporate sustainability targets need urgent attention and commitment, but in parallel we need to make sure companies writ large are adapting to and building resilience against climate risks - e.g. droughts, floods, fires, grid instability and weakening infrastructure - are all a growing reality on a warming planet. 🆘 Corporations, regardless of industry and geography will require support across the board in navigating climate change's most pressing threats. The risk of not doing so could have near-term, material impacts on protecting critical infrastructure as well as access to necessary products and services - food and medicine - and could also negatively impact human's themselves - heat stress, job loss, etc. 🤖 There is a growing technology solution set focusing on climate adaptation and resilience, and we need to bridge the gap between between these climate tech startups and the corporate sector. In turn, corporations can have an enormous impact in helping to scale climate innovations and bolster the surrounding ecosystem. Many thanks to Jackie Roberts for providing time and insight for the article, Dhruv Jesrani for being the design wizard and to Suma Reddy Connie Bowen Abrar Chaudhury Alhan Fakhr Laith Kawar Madeleine Futterman Emmanuelle Palikuca Omar Saif Andrew Chang Hope Petraro Tom K. Deepa Lounsbury for their guidance along the way while we did the research for this, and for Dahna Goldstein for being the connection to Jackie! #ClimateAction #SustainableBusiness #CorporateResponsibility #SustainabilityGoals #ClimateLeadership #CorporateSustainability #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateInnovation #ClimateChangeAdaptation #ResilienceStrategies #SustainableSolutions #ClimateResilience #BuildingResilience #ClimateChangeResponse #AdaptationStrategies

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👍 It's encouraging to see a report of this nature published by a global consulting firm like EY (*see comments). By collecting and analysing the wealth of existing thinking on regenerative, circular and wellbeing economy by leading thinkers like Kate Raworth, John Fullerton, Tyson Yunkaporta, Katherine Trebeck and others, it's an important signal that regenerative economic thinking is gaining traction, and now is the time for mainstream business leaders and policy makers to lean in and explore the opportunities of this transition. 👏 There's a lot to like in this report. https://lnkd.in/gPEcyPCm 💡 TL:DR - Here's a couple of useful quotes for those of us seeking to support the growth of the regenerative enterprise and finance sector: "An economy that serves human and planetary flourishing requires a system that puts sustainability first, valuing the systemic foundations of a good life for all (e.g., ecological health, individual purpose, social relationships) above financial and material abundance. This does not mean doing away with financial measures entirely. Rather it means reframing them as a means to an end, and integrating financial, social and environmental impact returns into a unified, multidimensional story of value. As an illustrative example, it is a profound misconception to assume that impact enterprises, whose primary purpose is to unleash new social value, are not concerned with profit. On the contrary, profit is still hugely important for an organization to become self-sustaining, but it’s understood very differently. By and large, it’s seen as a measure of financial sustainability and the means to scale (and what flows from scaling) equitable access to their products and services."

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🧬 "Decentralised Science (DeSci) and Its Transformative Impact on Skills, Education, and Work" - Delving into the transformative impact of decentralised science on skills, education, and the workforce. 🚀 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gJf88CFv #DeSci #Education #Innovation

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