World Ocean Summit: we need a blue revolution.
22 March 2024 / WORDS BY ANNICK PARADIS
read articleIt was fantastic to join the conversation at the World Ocean Summit in Lisbon last week and see governments, finance, corporations, NGOs, and academia come together to discuss the scaling of a sustainable blue economy. The conversation focused on how we can unlock the ocean’s potential to tackle the climate biodiversity crises by scaling investment while also building stakeholder trust.
Building the base for nature positive across the built environment
19 March 2024 / WORDS BY Guy Williams and Sophie St John
read articleThe built environment, and associated infrastructure sector, is very well placed to pursue ambitious nature targets.
When it comes to nature risk and opportunity, there’s a fallacy we sometimes see amongst corporates that it’s a new space, impossibly complex, and must be completely understood before it can be addressed. Those who put nature in the ‘too hard’ basket are failing to recognise the opportunities it presents, and the scale of relevant work and data they have often already accumulated. Few companies would be approaching nature from a standing start if they were to start planning more deliberately and explicitly for it today. The reality is we already know an awful lot about nature, what is needed and what impacts we are having – and this is particularly true in the built environment sector.