Negotiation & Dispute Resolution Trailblazer | Systems Thinker & Catalyst for Action | Leading Voice in Diplomacy & Regeneration Economics | Strategist, Advisor & Facilitator | Driving Innovative Polycrisis Responses
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary engagement. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined NatureFinance’s session at the Building Bridges Action Days. Your presence and engagement sparked the meaningful, bold conversations we need as we plan for a world beyond 1.5°C. We extend our deepest gratitude to our distinguished speakers, messengers and moderator Carlos Alvarez Pereira Rupert Read Josie Lianna Kaye PhD Paul Polman Mille Bojer, whose insights made this event truly special. Together, we explored amongst other the urgent themes of resilience, systems transformation, political maladaptive responses, transformative adaptation, conflict, and the critical role of nature finance in shaping a sustainable, equitable future. At the core of the event was a profound message: we must move from “what is necessary is impossible” to “what is impossible is necessary.” What we face today is more than a polycrisis of climate, nature, and biodiversity. The greatest crisis is a human crisis — a maladaptive and profoundly inadequate response to the challenges we know all too well. This is perhaps the mother of all challenges, and it compels us to urgently look within ourselves and question what it truly means to be human — to act with purpose, compassion, and agency at this critical juncture in history. This moment demands that we transform inertia into exponential, transformative adaptation, regeneration, and polyopportunity — for both planet and people. Our newly launched Food Report, “Future-Proofing Food for a Rapidly Warming Planet,” highlights this urgency. By scaling regenerative agriculture and investing in Resilient and Adaptive Food Technologies (RAFT), we can build food systems that nourish humanity while restoring our natural world — no matter how unpredictable the storms ahead. More than ever, we need to engage with extraordinary urgency, creativity, and collaboration. To all our participants, speakers, and partners: thank you for your contributions and for embracing this call to action! For those who missed it, the full Report is available here: https://lnkd.in/eg6tc-4B #NatureFinance #BuildingBridges #FutureProofingFood #SystemChange #Regeneration NatureFinance Building Bridges #SSF SFG - Sustainable Finance Geneva Geneva Graduate Institute Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment Geneva Centre for Security Policy Enterprise for Society Center (E4S) EPFL ETH Zürich Julie McCarthy Simon Zadek Susan Brown André Hoffmann Marie-Laure Schaufelberger, CFA Frederic Hoffmann Satya S. Tripathi Andrew Staines Marianne Haahr Dorothy Maseke ,CFIRM Gerrit Sindermann Marie Laure SALLES Arthur Keller Elise Buckle Matthew Kilgarriff Alvaro Cedeno Molinari Jessica Smith Diana Denke Nicolas Siorak Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz Audrey Selian Fredrik Galtung Arthur Wood Beris Gwynne Dawid Bastiat-Jarosz, PhD Andrew Crosby
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Dear Nicholas, you are working on some of the most pressing issues of our time, yet the message often fails to reach the average citizen. Most people, aside from those working directly on these topics, don’t have the time to watch 2-hour recordings or read lengthy reports. The message gets lost. And oversimplified narratives (even if false) keep shaping public opinion. I hope to see more breakdowns of key issues into posts and short-form videos. This is how information is consumed today.
Appreciate your ongoing focus building bridges, Nicholas C. Niggli - straddling complex challenges, perspectives + interests across multiple stakeholder constituencies, countries + disciplines at all layers of society - with variable global + local considerations. The entangled challenges + escalating risks observed with warming climate, biodiversity loss, food insecurity + more - call upon our capacity + potential to exercise collective agency, working together at all “scales,” finding common[s] ground toward “reasonably balancing” interdependent needs + interests. Building those bridges + making "meaningful progress" towards the unimpossible, means radically rethinking + reconfiguring business, philanthropy, governing frameworks + the financial flows required to “right scale” - supporting wellbeing economies in service to all life. The biggest challenges + opportunities of our time are human system related - overcoming dysfunctional polarization, navigating social + planetary tipping points + adopting alternative ways of working that break with degenerative patterns that fail to serve people + the living planet we all call home. Becoming more comfortable, being uncomfortable, [un]learning and adapting - together. 🙏🏼💙
Thank you for this most pertinent work you are leading. I have come to the realization that there will not be peace with nature before we are in peace within ourselves. This is no easy task but it is certainly indispensable to walk the path of empathy, harmony and creativity as a choice to resolve our innermost incompatibilities. That will lead us to walk the path of peace with Other, eventually leading us to peace with and for the biosphere. The pressing question is how can this happen at scale to reach critical masses around the world. Optimism derives from noticing how much and how many are already shifting.
Nicholas C. Niggli : well said. And well done for having the vision to make this happen. It felt to me - and feedback since has indicated - that we succeeded in ‘going there’, in a manner that is unusual. And that we were beginning successful the >debate< about what should be done about it. But only beginning: let there be more.
Thank you Nicholas C. Niggli and team! This was a great collaboration experience and I look forward to continuing! NB: The event recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/eaUVHOga_fU Tagging a few people who may be interested: Anne Weber Carlsen Helene Bie Lilleør Rupesh Madlani Kirsten Dunlop Indy Johar Jayne Engle Yiannis Chrysostomidis FRSAMahmood Sonday Colleen Magner Rebecca Freeth PhD Joe McCarron Akanimo Andrew Akpan, PhD Karen Goldberg Ravenna Nuaimy-Barker David Winter Michelle Parlevliet, PhD Sarita Sehgal, PhD Ralph Hamann Hal Hamilton Robin Hodess Adam Kahane Gary Belkin Reos Partners Rebecca Collyer Erica Hope Yannick Wassmer Jesse DeMaria-Kinney
So glad the event went well - and the report is great! I particularly appreciated the points made around tech dependency. Concepts like democratising R&D, reciprocal R&D and technological solidarity seem to be particularly critical when it comes to ensuring food security in the face of climate crisis. Thanks for sharing, and congrats to you and the team!
Cher Nicholas C. Niggli , connais tu le Pr. Claude A. Garcia qui travail sur ces sujets avec les jeux des sciences des systèmes ? Il est d’une inspiration sans faille.
What an inspiring call to reimagine what’s possible! Moving from inertia to transformative action is not just a challenge—it’s an opportunity to redefine our collective future. This urgent moment asks us to align purpose with action, proving that even in the face of a polycrisis, humanity’s potential for regeneration and resilience knows no bounds.
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2dA brilliant comment on a brilliant event: "At the core of the event was a profound message: we must move from “what is necessary is impossible” to “what is impossible is necessary.” What we face today is more than a polycrisis of climate, nature, and biodiversity. The greatest crisis is a human crisis — a maladaptive and profoundly inadequate response to the challenges we know all too well."