Online event | Futurebuild: The Lost Sessions – Putting nature at the heart of decision making
This Edge-Futurebuild session will explore key issues to identify the actions needed for systemic change.
Paul Crutzen, meteorologist and atmospheric chemist who won a Nobel Prize for stratospheric ozone destruction died on 28th January 2021. He said in his Nobel lecture (1995) that ”…the experiences of the early 1970s had made it utterly clear to me that human activities had grown so much that they could compete and interfere with natural processes.” Crutzen first coined the phrase ‘anthropocene’ as the epoch in which humans’ impact on the earth rivalled that of nature’.
Recognising that our economies, livelihoods and well-being all rely on Nature, in 2018 HM Treasury commissioned Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta to explore the sustainability of our interactions with nature and identify what we must urgent do differently.