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A Time of Monsters - Marco Lambertini Has The Recipe for Nature Positive
Marco Lambertini is on the show today, and where to start with describing one of the most iconic and visionary leaders of the environmental movement of the last 50 years. From eight years spent as the Global General Director of WWF, to being a current sitting member on the China Council, he was the CEO of Birdlife International too amid many other appointments. Marco forged a career in local and regional wildlife and landscape conservation campaigns, and with training as an ecologist and an inherent love of the natural world from before the beginning of his memories, having Marco and someone of his stature and credentials on the show is a remarkable honour for me. This was undoubtedly two of the most invigorating and insightful hours of my professional life to date.
Marco was recently in town as part of his work as Convenor of the Nature Positive Initiative - a coalition focused on preserving the integrity of the Nature Positive concept and goal, drive action and provide aligned guidance to deliver it. The proliferation and use of terms by those in our industry can be dizzying - nature positive is one of the later arrivals and Marco takes away the jargon in this chat to help define our terms in plain language.
His experience over 40 plus years is entirely evident in this conversation, and we cover a lot of ground - personal reconnections to the world around us, threats, psychology, magical thinking, a clear recipe to go from a nature negative economy to one that is nature positive, Financial flows, planetary tipping points, social tipping points, the rights of nature, dominance, nature as a security issue, measurement, governance, connectedness, and heaps heaps more.
Spending time with Marco was a gift, and I’ve barely stopped thinking about many of the gems of knowledge and pearls of wisdom he offered up in our chat. He is very easy to find online with a google search. Go check out the Nature Positive Initiative and grab a copy of the new book - Becoming Nature Positive. It’s available for order now and offers a compilation of some of the most experienced and knowledgeable nature positive actors globally sharing their insights, their guidance and their hope for the future. If you’re interested in nature positive at your organisation, get in touch with them too.
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