Pathways

To secure the long-term wellbeing of people and the planet, we must live in harmony with nature. Which means engaging in everyday activities that have a net positive effect on nature.

We can achieve this symbiotic oneness by harnessing tools that already exist, including the knowledge of indigenous peoples – their replicable values and practices, currently responsible for maintaining 80% of the world’s remaining biodiversity; and by using frontier technologies in ways that allow us to enrich, rather than deplete, our environment.

Lifelong learning should instil in every citizen a sense of their belonging to nature and an appreciation of the role we all have to play in nurturing it.

By harnessing indigenous ideas like ‘seven generation stewardship’: which teaches people to live with nature in a way that will benefit children seven generations into the future, we can lay the foundation on which we build a climate-resilient world together.

Technologies like big data, AI, supercomputing and digital twinning platforms are the types of innovations that can help us secure the wellbeing of humanity and the natural world.

Which in turn must be governed in the interests of all people – and the planet, to ensure we move forward ethically and with a focus on guaranteeing equitable access to the benefits of these technologies.

Cooperation, not competition, underpinning transboundary relationships will allow for the conservation, restoration, and regeneration of ecosystems spanning political borders.

International agreements already in place to promote this will serve as a starting point, as we explore ways to equitably use frontier technologies to develop dynamic cultures of transboundary management.

Living in neighbourhoods that are regenerative and restorative will optimise human health and sustain food security.

Communities, architects, designers, ecologists, and urban planners can forge ecosystem-centred approaches to this that bring housing, natural ecosystems, and food production together. This type of sensitive urban planning will embrace our heightened understanding of our oneness with nature, elements of biomimicry design, and the use of frontier technologies, to deliver newly transformed neighbourhoods that mirror ecological patterns within a new interconnected world of symbiotic biomes.

Smaller-scale holistic and regenerative practices of food production will help renew nature, confer resilience and ensure global food security. Indigenous peoples, who have long been successful in preserving soil, reducing erosion, conserving water and reducing the risk of disasters, will continue to be an invaluable human resource.

We will mainstream sustainable farming methods by using frontier technologies such as big data and AI, which can analyse soil conditions, water usage, climactic changes – and other key indicators – in real time.

Frontiers technologies will help run financial systems that properly support environmental and human wellbeing.

Using technologies, like those emerging in the fintech space, will allow us to track the performance of financial systems, to ensure they are accelerating sustainable practices that can power an inclusive, low-carbon world. While citizens and businesses shaping this world will have easy access to the support they need.