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Realizing a Nature-positive Future in North America
Watch the fifth-annual International Symposium recordings in English and Spanish.
Across the globe, biodiversity – the rich variety of life on the planet – is deteriorating faster than at any other time in human history. North America is no exception: over 30% of its biodiversity has declined since 1970. This devastating trend threatens organisms, ecosystems, and the benefits that they provide like carbon capture, clean air to breathe, and clean water to drink. At the same time, climate change continues to put people and nature under severe stress. Experts around the world acknowledge that climate change and nature loss are inseparable crises and must be addressed urgently and holistically for the benefit of both the planet and people—especially poor and marginalized communities, who are already being impacted disproportionately.
Many North American communities are working hard to address climate change and biodiversity loss. But how do we magnify these efforts in order to create a net-positive impact? How do we work together to create the systemic change that enables a world where nature is being restored and is regenerating rather than declining?
We urgently need actions, strategies, and approaches that can help solve these intertwined crises at scale.
The Symposium brought together diverse thought leaders from across North America to share their insights on how to move beyond individual projects to lasting systemic change that will drive a nature-positive future.
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