Research Purpose

Reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services have issued alarming warnings about the continuing viability of human systems. The former warns that unless we limit our greenhouse gas warming to 1.5 degrees in 12 years, we will face catastrophic collapse. The panel states that avoiding collapse requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has no documented historic precedent. They warn that we are now at the stage where this will only happen with political will. The biodiversity report warns that nature is in its worst shape in human history and we are facing accelerating species loss at a rate tens of hundreds of times faster than in the past. Both reports show climate pollution and biodiversity loss represent two of the most critical imperatives of modern society. It is no longer about creating enabling conditions for change but rather, intentionally leading the necessary changes and deliberatively intervening in current development paths.

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