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Letters | Nature-led design strategies can boost fight against climate change
- Sustainability is not an end goal but a continual process of renewal. It is high time we learned from nature to find bio-inspired business solutions that work with natural systems and processes
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With the “code red for humanity” signalled by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, can we be optimistic about the outcomes of the upcoming Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow?
The world is not short of innovations. It is not short of funding either. What is missing is alignment of political will, finance and community support.
Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, and the younger generation are not going to bide their time and wait for a net-zero future. It is imperative that we give them hope and show them that we care, with concrete action.
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Sustainability leaders will think global and act local. They will foster collaborative creativity and work across diverse stakeholders to derisk and scale up solutions for impact.
Such delicate resource balancing and transformation require systems thinking, innovation agility and complexity management. We need ground-up generativity and top-down mandates for effective execution.
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We homo sapiens are young relative to the 3.8 billion years since life on Earth began. Perhaps we can learn from nature about sustainable development. Victoria Kindred Keziah, a specialist in biomimicry, advocates that we can take sustainability as an emergent property – not as an end goal but a continual process of renewal. This concept aligns well with conservation and biodiversity amid the global efforts to tackle climate change.
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