Future of the Environment

" TThe need to change the ways societies interact with and affect the environment becomes more urgent as the tangible impacts of a planetary crisis accumulate - generating daily headlines about extreme weather events, pandemics, pollution, and a mounting shortage of essential natural resources. "

Nature and Biodiversity

" An abundance of ecosystems provides us with clean water, air, fertile soil, climate control, medicines, food, recreation, and inspiration. However, this life-supporting safety net is under threat. Millions of species are at risk of extinction, and the intensive extraction of certain components of biodiversity has come at the expense of everything else. The decline of biodiversity must be stopped, and biological complexity must be restored."

BiodiverCities

" The concept of BiodiverCities springs from the fact that healthy biological diversity should be a core element of civic space and urban development. As hubs for innovation, cooperation, inspiration, and economic growth, the potential for urban centres to help protect biodiversity should no longer be underestimated. The cities of the future have an opportunity to put nature at their core, and to hold themselves accountable for their collective impact on planetary health."

Plastics and the Environment

"A global plastic-pollution treaty is now on the horizon, though new materials, policies, recycling technologies, and regulations are also required to help responsibly reduce plastic consumption and transition to a more circular plastics economy. "

Infrastructure Development

"Infrastructure development is essential for economic development. Providing necessary infrastructure can boost health, wealth, access to education, and public safety"

Real Estate

" Developments in the real estate sector can reflect broader social issues; rising house prices can trigger debates about wealth inequality, and the same sort of technology innovation now reshaping the real estate industry and related financial markets is nurturing entrepreneurship and economic gains around the world."

Cities and Urbanisation

"While urbanization creates many challenges that threaten the quality of life, it also represents our best hope of solving these challenges; that’s because the density of cities enables innovation, by readily providing testbeds to gauge the effectiveness of related solutions. 

CO2 Capture, Utilization, and Storage

"Legacy carbon dioxide emissions must be removed as a new, net-zero-carbon economy is being built. CO2 capture, utilization, and storage have the potential to both contribute to gigatonne-scale removal, and serve as a source of fossil-free carbon products"