A hundred scientists, business and indigenous community leaders from around the world have gathered to accelerate the move towards a nature-based economy.
The director of the CTFC, Antoni Trasobares participated in the event, organized by King Charles III.
The charitable organization established in 2020 demands an urgent transition towards an economy that prioritizes nature.
A hundred business leaders, scientists and indigenous leaders from across the world have come together to accelerate the move towards a nature-first economy, at an event hosted by The King in London. The event, which marked the UK launch of the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (CBA), focused on how communities, and industries such as fashion, food, pharma can embrace new nature-based approaches.
Reimagining nature finance is crucial to catalyse this economic transformation, and the event focused on exploring new approaches. Participants discussed the need to Re-Nature, Re-Think and Re-Activate to create an ecosystem that connects international companies, local stakeholders and the finance industry to holistically redesign supply chains around regenerative landscapes.
Antoni Trasobares, director of the CTFC and FIRE-RES project coordinator, participated in the event as coordinator of the Network to promote resilient landscapes to forest fires, declaring “we are at a crucial moment, when we need to rethink our agroforestry landscapes in order to adapt them to global change. A circular bioeconomy based on public-private partnerships, that local communities and innovative scientific approaches, offers great potential to achieve this.”
“Nature is the keystone infrastructure regulating our planetary system, including its climate, the food we eat, the water we drink and the oxygen we breathe”, said Marc Palahí, CEO of the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance. “Nature is also the basic fabric supporting all our economic activities, even if our economic system fails to value it because bees, birds and trees do not send bills to us. It is time to reimagine our world and centre it around Nature – our most important capital and the basis for human health and wellbeing. This requires understanding, valuing and investing in Nature to transform our economy rather than to offset for its failure. We have the knowledge and technology for this transformation, we just need the wisdom and mindset to do it.”
At the event The King met with experts and companies and investors working to accelerate the transition towards nature-positive businesses in sectors such as food, fashion, health, tourism and the built environment.
New Living Labs and initiatives bring together pioneering corporates & communities to regenerate landscapes
The event saw the CBA announce the launch of two new pioneering Living Labs, to demonstrate how to holistically create regenerative landscapes and nature-positive supply chains in symbiosis with local communities and indigenous people. A regenerative fashion initiative in India will focus on landscape restoration for sustainable cashmere, supported by Brunello Cucinelli, while a nature-based medicinal plant production in Italy, will be supported by Aboca.
Other new initiatives encompass educational initiatives in the Amazon and Australia, bio-architecture in Bhutan, as well as continuing work building resilient landscapes, communities and value chains in Africa and Europe.
In Catalonia, the CTFC is working together with the CBA to consolidate a new Living Lab of reference, which includes the management of representative landscapes, based on innovative value chains in bioeconomy. This Living Lab will be defined in alignment with the new Forestry Hub project.
Last modified: 22 November 2024
