What is the measurement, management, governance framework for transition to a livable future.

1. Ecosystems Stewardship:
Governance for Global Transition
Safe passage to our livable future
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2. Executive Summary
• Natural and human systems failing under pressure
• Ecosystems stewardship – solutions for a liveable
future
• Global corporate citizenship – everyone’s business
• Working with what is emerging – the smart solution
• Emerging global collaboration – people and nature
• Implementing systemic change
• Ecosystems economics – measuring what matters
• Ecosystems stewardship – governance for what
matters
• Governance and collaboration architecture for our
positive future – people and nature
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3. Natural and human systems failing under pressure
Example: The capacity of ecosystems to buffer from extreme events
has been reduced through loss of wetlands, forests, mangroves.
People increasingly occupying regions exposed to extreme events.
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4. Biodiversity is life on earth…
Biodiversity is the living
tissue of our planetary
life support system.
Life on earth supports human well being
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5. Biodiversity: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Our current way of
life is destroying
biodiversity.
Solution?
Work with nature to
stabilise and restore
our life support
system.
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6. There is no liveable future without a shift of mind
We are nature. We just forgot.
We have reached a moment of truth.
The ultimate test.
Making choices about economics and wellbeing.
A personal choice. A humbling choice. A comforting
choice.
A societal choice. A commercial choice.
The survival choice. The flourishing choice.
*It is harder for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
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7. Ecosystems Stewardship – Solutions for a liveable future
• Governance for stewardship of ecosystems
• To sustain and develop human wellbeing
• Requires learning and re-purposing of our global
economy on a massive scale
• Remembering nature as the giver and sustainer of
life, economics, wealth, health
• Requires a shift of mind
• A new paradigm of leadership
• A new corporate citizenship
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8. Global corporate citizenship
• The new paradigm of leadership,
business strategy and execution
asks and answers two questions…
• Given all of our resources acting in alignment and to
full potential, what is our greatest possible role in
creating a sustainable, resilient and flourishing future
for people and nature?
• How will we profit and flourish by playing this role?
Everyone’s business
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9. The Butterfly Emerges from the Caterpillar
“I like to use the metaphor of the butterfly. In metamorphosis,
within the body of the caterpillar little things that biologists
call imaginal discs or imaginal cells begin to crop up in the
body of the caterpillar. They aren't recognized by the
immune system so the caterpillar's immune system wipes
them out as they pop up. It isn't until they begin to link forces
and join up with each other that they get stronger and are
able to resist the onslaught of the immune system, until the
immune system itself breaks down and the imaginal cells
form the body of the butterfly.
I think that is a beautiful metaphor for what is happening in
our times. The old body is going into meltdown while the new
one develops. It isn't that you end one thing and then start
another. So everybody engaged in recycling, in alternative
projects, […] in developing healthier systems for themselves
and each other is engaged in building the new world while
the old one collapses. Its collapse is inevitable. There is no
way around that.”
Elisabet Sahtouris: Evolution Biologist
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10. Working with what is emerging
• Market leaders see the patterns of the emerging
future, invest and reap rewards
• Now pattern seeing is a survival-skill for life and
business
• Find what is working
• For nature, people and business
• Invest in it
• Build on it
• Accelerate innovation
• Turn visionary prophesy into positive profit
The smart solution
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11. Ecosystems economics
• Economics models and measures the bottom line
of profit
• Business optimises for profit
• Ecosystems economics models and measures
contribution to “ecosystem services”
• Global Corporate Citizenship governs for
ecosystems and serves the flourishing of life on
earth
Measuring what matters
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12. Ecosystems stewardship
• Means learning from nature
• Embedding ecosystems awareness
• Aligning Purpose, Vision and Values
• Leadership and Culture
• Strategy, Processes and Goals
• To the emerging necessity and opportunity
• Cherishing and nurturing the flourishing of life on
earth
Governance for what matters
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13. Governance and collaboration architecture
• Gaiaspace – collaboration software for emergence –
connecting people and energising hidden patterns of
opportunity to accelerate innovation and change
• Gaiasoft Scorecard – a platform for governance,
knowledge sharing and strategy implementation,
through performance, transformation and leadership
using the lens of ecosystems stewardship
• Gaialytics – a business/city/system modelling tool that
measures and aggregates ecosystems contribution
and human well-being – finding hidden patterns to
optimise profit while implementing transition
For our positive future – people and nature
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14. Improvements in ecosystems can be achieved by 2050
Significant changes can partially mitigate negative
consequences of pressure on ecosystems.
– Widespread use of active adaptive management
– Investment in education (13% of GDP from 3.5% today)
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15. Emerging global collaboration
People and nature
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16. Implementing systemic change
• Clustering people with common goals
Asdf
• Asd
• Adsf
• A Communities work together to
create templates...
• Df
• a Systems of
Influence re-use
templates to create
systemic change
Builds on the model of the Berkana Institute
on Lifecycle of Social Change Movements
By facilitating emergence
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17. Roadmap for large-scale change
1. Develop Template
2. Pilot
• 1. Develop a meshwork template
3. Scale using what already works…
Results
3 • 2. Pilot this roadmap to align and
mobilise business, civil society.
• 3. Learn from the experience and
scale globally.
1 2
Time
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18. Global collaboration and learning
– Climate Adaptation implementation
– Global cities knowledge sharing and learning hub
– Developing the “DNA” of a sustainable city
– Enables and mainstreams adaptive management
– Enables mass peer and distributed education
– Enables global media sharing (North and South) for global
understanding, accountability, compassion and learning
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19. Berkeley
City Page
Filters and
connects people
across sectors.
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20. Transport
Topic Page
Filters and connects
people across cities.
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21. Emerging “DNA” of a sustainable city
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22. Ecosystems Stewardship:
Governance for Global Transition
Safe passage to our positive future
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