Morel Fourman Ecosystems Stewardship Safe Passage To Our Positive Future

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Ecosystems Stewardship: Ecosystems Stewardship: Governance for Global TransitionGovernance for Global Transition

Safe passage to our livable future

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Executive SummaryExecutive 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


Natural and human systems failing under pressureNatural 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.


Biodiversity is life on earthBiodiversity is life on earth……Biodiversity is the living tissue of our planetary life support system.

Life on earth supports human well beingLife on earth supports human well being


Biodiversity: Millennium Ecosystem AssessmentBiodiversity: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Our current way of life is destroying biodiversity.

Solution?Work with nature to stabilise and restore our life support system.


There is no liveable future without a shift of mindThere 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.


Ecosystems Stewardship Ecosystems Stewardship –– Solutions for a liveable futureSolutions 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


Global corporate citizenshipGlobal 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?

EveryoneEveryone’’s businesss business


The Butterfly Emerges from the CaterpillarThe 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 biologistscall 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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Working with what is emergingWorking 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 solutionThe smart solution


Ecosystems economicsEcosystems 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 mattersMeasuring what matters


Ecosystems stewardshipEcosystems 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 mattersGovernance for what matters


Governance and collaboration architectureGovernance 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 For our positive future –– people and naturepeople and nature


Improvements in ecosystems can be achieved by 2050Improvements 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)


Emerging global collaborationEmerging global collaboration

People and naturePeople and nature


Implementing systemic changeImplementing systemic change

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By facilitating emergenceBy facilitating emergence

Clustering people with common goals

Communities work together to create templates...

Systems of Influence re-use templates to create systemic change

Builds on the model of the Berkana Institute on Lifecycle of Social Change Movements


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1. Develop Template2. Pilot3. Scale

Roadmap for large-scale change

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• 1. Develop a meshwork template using what already works…

• 2. Pilot this roadmap to align and mobilise business, civil society.

• 3. Learn from the experience and scale globally.


Global collaboration and learningGlobal 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


BerkeleyCity Page

Filters and connects people across sectors.


TransportTopic Page

Filters and connects people across cities.


Emerging Emerging ““DNADNA”” of a sustainable cityof a sustainable city

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