Pollination Group | Climate Change Advisory & Investment Firm http://pollidev.local Pollination Group | Climate Change Advisory & Investment Firm Wed, 02 Feb 2022 06:10:13 +0000 en-US 1.2 http://pollidev.local http://pollidev.local 7 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.3 <![CDATA[International Savanna Fire Management Initiative: A living example of systems change at work.]]> http://pollidev.local/case_studies/international-savanna-fire-management-initiative-a-living-example-of-systems-change-at-work/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 02:52:07 +0000 http://pollination.4.efront.digital/?post_type=case_studies&p=223 223 0 2 0 You were smarter I’d be in school” – so said a recent sign by a striking child anxious about climate change. It is a potent rebuke, not least because so many of the solutions are not rocket science. The implications of worsening climate change are also clear: while the world will not end, it will as we know it and with mounting evidence not for the better. Yet this sobering, irreversible prospect continues to divide rather than unite us in response. Between landing the Paris Agreement in 2015 and it beginning to operate next year we have seen the five hottest years on record. Climate change is our defining challenge. In nearly four years as Ambassador for the Environment for Australia, there was of course political point-scoring that makes this issue seem to forever go round in circles. But there were also trends that make me optimistic we will come closer together to infuse our children’s eyes with hope, not anger. I observed care for the environment does not belong to any one political party. Conservation is conservative bedrock, protection a core progressive instinct. Successive Australian governments of either description have nurtured Australia’s world class environment, which was a privilege to represent. Consensus on the science of climate change grows ever stronger: that the world is heating and we are largely responsible, and therefore can do something about it. Reinforcing this, communities around the world are feeling the negative impacts of change such as rising seas, stronger droughts, floods and cyclones. They want solutions, which will be a political driver.
It is not a choice between reducing emissions and economic growth and jobs. The standout is the UK which has reduced its emissions by over 40% since 1990 while growing the economy over 70%. Many other countries are also proving this point.
There is global recognition, bar one, that no one country can solve the challenge. It must be through common cause, by nations choosing – not being forced by the UN – to come together. Each has committed to doing more under the escalating cycles of ambition of the historic Paris Agreement. We all have made a start, with much already being done – including by key developing countries like China and India – which is itself a platform for more.]]>  

The International Savanna Fire Management Initiative (ISFMI) shows what is possible through our work. ISFMI is a standalone entity supported by Pollination Foundation to adapt and scale technology developed in northern Australia to savanna landscapes around the world.

www.isfmi.org  
We have to find new ways to make this land healthy … Being the boss of fire was always the way. Not fires being the boss of us. That is the lesson from the old people.
— Dean Yibarbuk, ISFMI Advisory Committee Member, West Arnhem Land, northern Australia
  The attention of the global community continues to focus on the devastating impact of wildfire: California in 2018, Brazil in 2019 and Australia in 2020. These catalytic wildfire events are a part of a global trend fuelled by climate change. So often, headlines alert us to the destruction and displacement caused by out-of-control wildfires. But Indigenous custodians deeply understand that fire has a very different - and essential – function. So much so that without it, nature suffers devastating imbalance – new plants critical to biodiversity and feedstock cannot germinate, overgrowth creates dangerous fuel loads - and then uncontrolled wildfire outbreaks once again, wreak havoc, adding further to our emissions overload.]]> International Savanna Fire Management Initiative: A living example of systems change at work.]]> Image credits © ISFMI]]> Despite the fact that we were living a nomadic life … we were using the veldt fires to keep wildlife in one place because when the veldt is burned fresh grass, tubers and plants grow … As the San we were conservers not poachers.
— Xontae Xhao, Tsodilo Hills Community Botswana
  From 2013 to 2015, the Australian Government provided an initial grant to explore the global potential of traditional fire management. The project drew on the fire knowledge and practices of traditional owners across northern Australia who, in partnership with scientists, had developed a carbon method to measure reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from reintroduction of traditional fire practices. The study established initial indications that methodologies developed in northern Australia could be successfully replicated in other savanna landscapes and deliver carbon emissions reductions as well as a suite of community and environmental benefits. Further community based pilot sites in Botswana, again supported by the Australian Government from 2018 – 2021, provided technical proof that this is indeed the case. Building on this success, new projects in Zambia, Mozambique, Angola and Central America (Belize and Guatemala) are expected to commence shortly. Today, the International Savanna Fire Management Initiative (ISFMI) works to support Indigenous and local communities globally, developing carbon methodologies that measure and verify emissions reductions achieved through these practices. In the future this will allow Indigenous and local communities and the biodiversity that supports them, to benefit from the emissions reductions they generate, through reinstating early dry season traditional fire management, through the sale of carbon offsets, and other corporate and philanthropic partnerships, as has been successfully achieved in northern Australia. As Indigenous communities globally are supported to revitalise their traditional fire knowledge, restore the environment and reduce the emissions driving climate change, biodiversity and humanity at large are also reaping the benefits.]]> Image credits © Kimberley Land Council © ISFMI]]> Traditional ecological knowledge is just as important as western knowledge, and if we can bring those two together in the work we are all trying to do in climate change, it is a win win for everybody.
— Cissy Gore Birch, ISFMI Advisory Committee Member, East Kimberley region northern Australia
  The ISFMI showcases what is possible when community-based solutions are elevated, resources to scale nature-based solutions are unlocked, and practitioners are connected to share expertise. The scale and multifaceted success of emissions reductions from traditional fire management makes it one of the most promising and significant nature-based solutions on offer.]]> <![CDATA[Mobilising finance to restore health to landscapes and communities.]]> http://pollidev.local/case_studies/mobilising-finance-to-restore-health-to-landscapes-and-communities/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 02:56:49 +0000 http://pollination.4.efront.digital/?post_type=case_studies&p=225 225 0 3 0 You were smarter I’d be in school” – so said a recent sign by a striking child anxious about climate change. It is a potent rebuke, not least because so many of the solutions are not rocket science. The implications of worsening climate change are also clear: while the world will not end, it will as we know it and with mounting evidence not for the better. Yet this sobering, irreversible prospect continues to divide rather than unite us in response. Between landing the Paris Agreement in 2015 and it beginning to operate next year we have seen the five hottest years on record. Climate change is our defining challenge. In nearly four years as Ambassador for the Environment for Australia, there was of course political point-scoring that makes this issue seem to forever go round in circles. But there were also trends that make me optimistic we will come closer together to infuse our children’s eyes with hope, not anger. I observed care for the environment does not belong to any one political party. Conservation is conservative bedrock, protection a core progressive instinct. Successive Australian governments of either description have nurtured Australia’s world class environment, which was a privilege to represent. Consensus on the science of climate change grows ever stronger: that the world is heating and we are largely responsible, and therefore can do something about it. Reinforcing this, communities around the world are feeling the negative impacts of change such as rising seas, stronger droughts, floods and cyclones. They want solutions, which will be a political driver.
It is not a choice between reducing emissions and economic growth and jobs. The standout is the UK which has reduced its emissions by over 40% since 1990 while growing the economy over 70%. Many other countries are also proving this point.
There is global recognition, bar one, that no one country can solve the challenge. It must be through common cause, by nations choosing – not being forced by the UN – to come together. Each has committed to doing more under the escalating cycles of ambition of the historic Paris Agreement. We all have made a start, with much already being done – including by key developing countries like China and India – which is itself a platform for more.]]> Mobilising finance to restore health to landscapes and communities.]]>

Marketplace for Nature nests within Pollination Foundation’s strategy to grow solutions – stimulating and scaling new market opportunities for nature-based climate solutions.

Biodiversity loss is one of the biggest risks we face in the coming decade. It is crucial to the survival of all life on earth – including humanity. Though chronically underfunded, the financing that protects and restores nature does work: Between 1996 and 2008, conservation investments resulted in a 29% (average) reduction in extinction risk for mammals and birds. In response to growing awareness of the need to invest more in nature, an informal network of nature conservation and Indigenous-focused organisations came together to explore how biodiversity markets can play a greater role in safeguarding Australia’s ecosystems. Together, the ‘Biodiversity Credits Working Group’ is focused on increasing the flow of financial investment into nature conservation by establishing a Marketplace for Nature to connect buyers with sellers. This will provide opportunity to invest in nature through diverse products and strategies, from the small to the large. The initiative aims to develop a prototype marketplace for nature and establish an independent body to own and lead it, along the way weaving a network and community of practice to grow the market. Getting there will involve engaging sector leaders to discover the unique needs of producers and buyers and will include a series of convenings to connect private, government, philanthropic and not-for-profit sector leaders. Marketplace for Nature is a win-win: It is designed to grow Indigenous and community nature-based enterprise and improve the management and protection of natural resources as the flow of finance into nature-based solutions increases. It seeks to build communities, partnerships and networks willing to explore and realise new ways to scale nature-based solutions and at the same time, grow confidence amongst corporate and financial sectors and governments, in the value of investing in nature. Pollination Foundation’s role is to incubate the Marketplace for Nature until it’s ready to launch independently.]]> Image credits © Jake Allison © Jake Johnson © Jan Kopriva]]> <![CDATA[Mobilising investment in nature-based solutions through harmonising law, policy and finance.]]> http://pollidev.local/case_studies/mobilising-investment-in-nature-based-solutions-through-harmonising-law-policy-and-finance/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 03:00:04 +0000 http://pollination.4.efront.digital/?post_type=case_studies&p=227 227 0 4 0 You were smarter I’d be in school” – so said a recent sign by a striking child anxious about climate change. It is a potent rebuke, not least because so many of the solutions are not rocket science. The implications of worsening climate change are also clear: while the world will not end, it will as we know it and with mounting evidence not for the better. Yet this sobering, irreversible prospect continues to divide rather than unite us in response. Between landing the Paris Agreement in 2015 and it beginning to operate next year we have seen the five hottest years on record. Climate change is our defining challenge. In nearly four years as Ambassador for the Environment for Australia, there was of course political point-scoring that makes this issue seem to forever go round in circles. But there were also trends that make me optimistic we will come closer together to infuse our children’s eyes with hope, not anger. I observed care for the environment does not belong to any one political party. Conservation is conservative bedrock, protection a core progressive instinct. Successive Australian governments of either description have nurtured Australia’s world class environment, which was a privilege to represent. Consensus on the science of climate change grows ever stronger: that the world is heating and we are largely responsible, and therefore can do something about it. Reinforcing this, communities around the world are feeling the negative impacts of change such as rising seas, stronger droughts, floods and cyclones. They want solutions, which will be a political driver.
It is not a choice between reducing emissions and economic growth and jobs. The standout is the UK which has reduced its emissions by over 40% since 1990 while growing the economy over 70%. Many other countries are also proving this point.
There is global recognition, bar one, that no one country can solve the challenge. It must be through common cause, by nations choosing – not being forced by the UN – to come together. Each has committed to doing more under the escalating cycles of ambition of the historic Paris Agreement. We all have made a start, with much already being done – including by key developing countries like China and India – which is itself a platform for more.]]> Mobilising investment in nature-based solutions through harmonising law, policy and finance.]]>

The Nature Valued Project, at its core is stimulating and scaling new market opportunities for nature-based climate solutions. The project nests with Pollination Foundation’s strategy to unlock resources to grow nature-based solutions.

  Strategies to address the interrelated crises of climate change and biodiversity loss have historically been established separately. However, this fragmented approach risks systemic failure. A new, integrated strategy is urgently needed to accelerate progress. The UK has a unique opportunity to take a leadership role in reinforcing the linkage between increased climate ambition and high-level commitments on the protection of nature by dramatically scaling investment into nature-based solutions.]]> Image credits © Simon Godfrey © Martin Sepion]]> Good institutional design needs to connect law, policy and finance. We all have experience of poor design and punishingly slow investment processes that simply fail to match the urgency of our problems and don’t work for participants in policy-driven markets. Getting it right requires an epic exercise in effective collaboration to meet this unique political moment.
— James Cameron
  Following its COP26 and G7 Presidencies, the UK has a global platform to champion efforts to scale investment into nature and present its domestic policy to the international community. New models of collaboration are needed to overcome barriers to investment in nature-based solutions at scale, as well as bridge multilateral commitments on climate and biodiversity. The Nature Valued Project seeks to maximise the impact of this unique window in the UK context, to transform how law, policy and finance can be aligned to effectively value and reward the full breadth of benefits that nature provides.]]> <![CDATA[Ampliseed is an active insights exchange for the change-makers of our time. Curating opportunities for conservation practitioners to connect, learn and amplify ideas for environmental resilience, globally.]]> http://pollidev.local/case_studies/ampliseed-is-an-active-insights-exchange-for-the-change-makers-of-our-time-curating-opportunities-for-conservation-practitioners-to-connect-learn-and-amplify-ideas-for-environmental-resilience-globall/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:17:35 +0000 http://pollination.4.efront.digital/?post_type=case_studies&p=360 360 0 5 0 You were smarter I’d be in school” – so said a recent sign by a striking child anxious about climate change. It is a potent rebuke, not least because so many of the solutions are not rocket science. The implications of worsening climate change are also clear: while the world will not end, it will as we know it and with mounting evidence not for the better. Yet this sobering, irreversible prospect continues to divide rather than unite us in response. Between landing the Paris Agreement in 2015 and it beginning to operate next year we have seen the five hottest years on record. Climate change is our defining challenge. In nearly four years as Ambassador for the Environment for Australia, there was of course political point-scoring that makes this issue seem to forever go round in circles. But there were also trends that make me optimistic we will come closer together to infuse our children’s eyes with hope, not anger. I observed care for the environment does not belong to any one political party. Conservation is conservative bedrock, protection a core progressive instinct. Successive Australian governments of either description have nurtured Australia’s world class environment, which was a privilege to represent. Consensus on the science of climate change grows ever stronger: that the world is heating and we are largely responsible, and therefore can do something about it. Reinforcing this, communities around the world are feeling the negative impacts of change such as rising seas, stronger droughts, floods and cyclones. They want solutions, which will be a political driver.
It is not a choice between reducing emissions and economic growth and jobs. The standout is the UK which has reduced its emissions by over 40% since 1990 while growing the economy over 70%. Many other countries are also proving this point.
There is global recognition, bar one, that no one country can solve the challenge. It must be through common cause, by nations choosing – not being forced by the UN – to come together. Each has committed to doing more under the escalating cycles of ambition of the historic Paris Agreement. We all have made a start, with much already being done – including by key developing countries like China and India – which is itself a platform for more.]]> Ampliseed is an active insights exchange for the change-makers of our time. Curating opportunities for conservation practitioners to connect, learn and amplify ideas for environmental resilience, globally.]]> Creating and curating a dynamic environment for intentional reflection, serendipity and connection. The initiative nests within Pollination Foundation’s strategy to cross pollinate ideas and connect practitioners for peer-to-peer learning.   The world’s growing population is placing unprecedented pressure on finite land and water resources. This has contributed to a catastrophic global species loss of more than two-thirds in the last 50 years, a decline that is accelerating with the impact of 
climate shocks. Sustaining our natural environment for the benefit of future generations is one of today’s most pressing challenges. For conservation efforts to sustain nature at a landscape scale to succeed, we need bold new approaches and transformative change. Once solutions are seeded and work, they must be shared so others can take them on with confidence. Ampliseed is a peer-to-peer network that, at its core, connects people to change the way conservation at a landscape scale is achieved. By focusing on a people-centred, rights-based approach and connecting practitioners delivering multi-tenured place-based initiatives, the Network places humanity at the centre of climate solutions. A cornerstone belief is that alone, we only get so far. Through sharing insights, we become extraordinary. The seven diverse and outstanding partner organisations in the Network are supported by the BHP Foundation's Environmental Resilience Program, in a portfolio of Projects that empower people to steward nature, strengthen rights, improve how the environment is valued and enhance conservation planning. Each of the seven Projects are piloting innovative landscape-scale approaches. In many locations, Projects partner with Indigenous peoples and local communities to support livelihood models, with the aim of developing diverse revenue streams and embedding conservation in local economies. While Projects focus on place-based outcomes, their vision is expansive, supported by income streams from new and emerging global markets. All projects manage multiple partners and relationships, and many facilitate local to global networks.  ]]> Image credits © CI Peru © Great Barrier Reef Foundation © Pollination Foundation © Fundación Tierra Austral © Nature United © 10 Deserts Project]]> <![CDATA[Networking Indigenous women living and working in communities around the world to share fire knowledge, aid conservation and support their economic security.]]> http://pollidev.local/case_studies/networking-indigenous-women-living-and-working-in-communities-around-the-world-to-share-fire-knowledge-aid-conservation-and-support-their-economic-security/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:18:11 +0000 http://pollination.4.efront.digital/?post_type=case_studies&p=361 361 0 6 0 You were smarter I’d be in school” – so said a recent sign by a striking child anxious about climate change. It is a potent rebuke, not least because so many of the solutions are not rocket science. The implications of worsening climate change are also clear: while the world will not end, it will as we know it and with mounting evidence not for the better. Yet this sobering, irreversible prospect continues to divide rather than unite us in response. Between landing the Paris Agreement in 2015 and it beginning to operate next year we have seen the five hottest years on record. Climate change is our defining challenge. In nearly four years as Ambassador for the Environment for Australia, there was of course political point-scoring that makes this issue seem to forever go round in circles. But there were also trends that make me optimistic we will come closer together to infuse our children’s eyes with hope, not anger. I observed care for the environment does not belong to any one political party. Conservation is conservative bedrock, protection a core progressive instinct. Successive Australian governments of either description have nurtured Australia’s world class environment, which was a privilege to represent. Consensus on the science of climate change grows ever stronger: that the world is heating and we are largely responsible, and therefore can do something about it. Reinforcing this, communities around the world are feeling the negative impacts of change such as rising seas, stronger droughts, floods and cyclones. They want solutions, which will be a political driver.
It is not a choice between reducing emissions and economic growth and jobs. The standout is the UK which has reduced its emissions by over 40% since 1990 while growing the economy over 70%. Many other countries are also proving this point.
There is global recognition, bar one, that no one country can solve the challenge. It must be through common cause, by nations choosing – not being forced by the UN – to come together. Each has committed to doing more under the escalating cycles of ambition of the historic Paris Agreement. We all have made a start, with much already being done – including by key developing countries like China and India – which is itself a platform for more.]]> Networking Indigenous women living and working in communities around the world to share fire knowledge, aid conservation and support their economic security.]]> The Women in Fire initiative aims to elevate the voices of women to reimagine our relationship with fire. The project nestles within the ISFMI global network and connects with Pollination Foundation’s strategy to share stories of hope, told through the voices of our partners.   Report from phase one Women in Fire Initiative (adobe.com) Fire has been used for many thousands of years by Indigenous peoples around the world as a tool to cultivate and regenerate land. Today, with wildfire intensity fuelled by climate change, Indigenous land managers are often at the forefront of fire response, using new technology and traditional techniques to both reduce and respond to the threat of wildfire. But an essential part of the story has been missing, because the science of fire and on ground fire operations is dominated by male experts. In the past, from an Indigenous perspective traditional fire management (TFM) has been an activity often assigned to men. Yet women too - across the world - hold important cultural fire knowledge. Indigenous women use fire in cultural ceremony to cleanse the land, body and spirit, protect and regenerate important native plants and foods and gather family and friends around the campfire to nourish each other with shared meals and stories.
We want women to come together to share knowledge on fire, get together and get that unity going ... We want to break down the barriers, build bridges and share our knowledge, connect up all these networks because we’re stronger together... Local to global, this idea is based on a seven sisters story which links us together. We can work as a team to save our world.
— Annette Millar talked to Mimal's vision for the Strong Women for Healthy Country Network Mimal Land Management
Today across northern Australia, over 30 Indigenous-owned and operated savanna fire projects are enabling improved fire management over 17.9 million hectares of northern Australian savanna lands. Collectively since 2012, these projects have abated around 5.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, generating an estimated $81 million in Australian Carbon Credit Units. Indigenous Carbon Industry Network (icin.org.au). In rural and remote areas across northern Australia, Indigenous women are leading TFM activities, combining traditional and new technologies to combat the increase of wildfire. The Women in Fire initiative aims to connect Indigenous women working with fire to share their stories with each other and the world, and ultimately, to elevate the opportunity to apply TFM to the increasing threat of global warming. Using technology to connect, Women in Fire has gathered women from Australia to California and Botswana (and in the second phase, it will include women in Latin America and Africa) to promote Indigenous women’s economic security, share a solution to global warming, protect nature and increase awareness of Indigenous women cultural knowledge and technologies. The seeds of Women in Fire Initiative are nestled within the The International Savanna Fire Management Initiative (ISFMI), which is working towards revitalising fire management techniques used by Indigenous peoples over millennia, to sustainably manage vast tracts of land around the world. A core element of ISFMI is to bring people together on country to experience Indigenous fire practices. Women in Fire Initiative aims to create a culturally safe space for women to share their practices, fire traditions and knowledge of fire, native foods and enterprise opportunities. From there, the vision is to create authentic digital ‘Stories from Country’ that capture their knowledge and amplify their work, to share these important stories with the global community. There’s place-based economic benefit too: these women are trailblazing a career pathway for Indigenous and local community women around the world to generate an income from their knowledge while remaining in their community ‘living on country’. Women in Fire offers a culturally-based viable career opportunity with a living wage.]]> <![CDATA[Elevating the rich knowledge within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to activate nature-based climate solutions]]> http://pollidev.local/case_studies/elevating-the-rich-knowledge-within-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-communities-to-activate-nature-based-climate-solutions/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 03:29:35 +0000 http://pollination.4.efront.digital/?post_type=case_studies&p=362 362 0 7 0 Y

ou were smarter I’d be in school” – so said a recent sign by a striking child anxious about climate change. It is a potent rebuke, not least because so many of the solutions are not rocket science. The implications of worsening climate change are also clear: while the world will not end, it will as we know it and with mounting evidence not for the better. Yet this sobering, irreversible prospect continues to divide rather than unite us in response. Between landing the Paris Agreement in 2015 and it beginning to operate next year we have seen the five hottest years on record. Climate change is our defining challenge. In nearly four years as Ambassador for the Environment for Australia, there was of course political point-scoring that makes this issue seem to forever go round in circles. But there were also trends that make me optimistic we will come closer together to infuse our children’s eyes with hope, not anger. I observed care for the environment does not belong to any one political party. Conservation is conservative bedrock, protection a core progressive instinct. Successive Australian governments of either description have nurtured Australia’s world class environment, which was a privilege to represent. Consensus on the science of climate change grows ever stronger: that the world is heating and we are largely responsible, and therefore can do something about it. Reinforcing this, communities around the world are feeling the negative impacts of change such as rising seas, stronger droughts, floods and cyclones. They want solutions, which will be a political driver.
It is not a choice between reducing emissions and economic growth and jobs. The standout is the UK which has reduced its emissions by over 40% since 1990 while growing the economy over 70%. Many other countries are also proving this point.
There is global recognition, bar one, that no one country can solve the challenge. It must be through common cause, by nations choosing – not being forced by the UN – to come together. Each has committed to doing more under the escalating cycles of ambition of the historic Paris Agreement. We all have made a start, with much already being done – including by key developing countries like China and India – which is itself a platform for more.]]> Elevating the rich knowledge within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to activate nature-based climate solutions]]> The On Country Incubator aims to seed innovation, incubating community-based enterprise for nature-based climate solutions.   Across Australia, native title claims have consolidated an Indigenous estate that covers more than 20% of Australia's land mass. Over 40% of this Indigenous estate is protected for cultural and natural values under the Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) program. The network of IPAs adds up to almost half (45%) of Australia’s national reserve system and provides a world leading model of Indigenous-led conservation. Despite this success, most funding for Indigenous-led conservation continues to come from government. Meanwhile, there’s an enormous opportunity: connecting a global network of nature-based market expertise with the skills and knowledge that lives on country to inspire new models and bring Indigenous owned nature enterprise opportunities to life. The key to unlocking this potential on country lies in greater diversity in income streams and connecting community to patient capital and joint venture partners. On Country Incubator concept is to connect rural and remote Indigenous communities with best practice expertise, to structure communities’ nature-based enterprise ideas, connect them to new networks and secure new sources of finance.  The long-term goal is to co-create an eco-system of community-owned natural climate solutions that contribute to place based economies and a climate resilient future.]]> Image credits © Jeremy Bezan © Photo by Free Nature Stock on Unsplash © Photo by The Tampa Bay Estuary Program on Unsplash]]> <![CDATA[Harnessing the power of storytelling to harvest and share learnings about transformative change, to support our transition to a future where people and nature thrive.]]> http://pollidev.local/case_studies/harnessing-the-power-of-storytelling-to-harvest-and-share-learnings-about-transformative-change-to-support-our-transition-to-a-future-where-people-and-nature-thrive/ Wed, 02 Feb 2022 06:00:27 +0000 http://pollidev.local/?post_type=case_studies&p=2809 2809 0 1 0 Harnessing the power of storytelling to harvest and share learnings about transformative change, to support our transition to a future where people and nature thrive.]]> The Story Lab is the seed of an idea to co-create and share stories that speak to how we transition to a climate resilient future. The project nests within Pollination Foundation’s strategy to mobilise the power of storytelling for positive change and evidence of impact.   Stories have the power to shape the world. Bridging cultures and generations, stories have informed every stage of human history, distributing knowledge, making sense of complexity, helping us to learn and grow our understanding. Sharing stories allows us to see through the eyes of others, creating connection and opening us to infinite possibility. Insights drawn from catalytic initiatives do not spread on their own, they need to be collected, understood and communicated in a compelling way to inspire changes in behaviour. Crafting authentic and captivating narratives that weave data with storytelling is therefore essential to the success of all our initiatives. Inspired by the Environmental Resilience Learning Network, the Story Lab harvests learnings and draws insights from project activities, place-based economies, and other environmental initiatives. Cross referencing these with evidence and expertise from external networks allows us to create stories as authentic as they are compelling. Stories from the field bring project narratives to life; observations from a richly diverse community of participants add texture, context, nuance and depth to project impacts, both immediate and ongoing. Combining these elements with data creates a powerful narrative to influence and drive change. Encompassing the full spectrum of media – from podcasts to web content, social media, video, audio and more – the Story Lab aims to identify how project outcomes can apply in other situations, and will provide an invaluable resource of knowledge that captures change and impact over time. This bank of stories will build a robust knowledge base through which partners can share significant learnings with external audiences, encouraging and enabling others to take on new approaches with confidence.]]>