Urgent action is needed to accelerate innovation The science is clear: we need to cut global carbon emissions to limit the worst impacts of climate change and adapt to a changing world.
The urgency of this problem creates a resounding call to action to accelerate innovation to meet our emissions targets whilst building global communities’ resilience to the worst consequences of a changing climate.
Despite the undeniable need, the multiplicity of the problems we face, and the many brilliant individuals and institutions working to solve these problems, we risk failing to develop, test and scale profoundly transformational solutions that will help planet Earth and its inhabitants tackle the climate crisis.
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We need to challenge innovators to tackle the world’s biggest crisis with bold calls to action centred around clear goals – because we don’t have time to take modest, piecemeal steps.
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We need to reward and nurture the most promising ideas – because we don’t have the time or resources to spend on anything that is not moving the needle forward.
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We need to support new and different actors, including people and organisations from outside the environmental sector with unexpected approaches and radical ideas – because we’re wasting talent by overlooking good ideas and there’s no excuse for wasting talent in an emergency.
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We need to support a diversity of solutions that can achieve systemic change – because solutions are more resilient and effective if they work in tandem to tackle problems from different angles.
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We need to create pathways for the best solutions to rapidly scale – because funding one-off solutions will never achieve global impact.
Climate Possible: How funders can accelerate innovation for a resilient future
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