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Prof Wayne Visser
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🌍 World top 10 pracademic in sustainable & regenerative business, innovation & leadership [ref: ChatGPT]. Author: 44 books, incl. international bestseller Thriving. Fellow @ CISL (Cambridge U.), Prof @ CPBS (Porto). Poet. Hopetimist 🌻 www.waynevisser.com .. more

Wayne Visser is a writer, speaker, film producer, academic, editor of poetry, social entrepreneur and futurist focused on sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and creating integrated value. .. more

Business 51%
Economics 12%

Bolsonaro

And here is the power of leadership. Balsanaro vs Lula

Some good news. #Deforestation has fallen again in #Brazil. The direction of travel is important.

#naturepositive #nature #conservation

#Sustainability faces headwinds created by Trump’s anti-ESG and anti-renewables rhetoric and policies. But investors are smarter than Trump and - despite their reputation for short-terminism - are putting their money in the #cleantech growth markets

#esg #sustainablefinance #greenfinance

The collapse of the Net Zero Banking Alliance is regrettable. But don’t imagine this is the end of #sustainable #finance.

Question: If you’re a #bank with a healthy profit motive and you see the chart below, what strategic choices will you make?

#esg #banking #netzero
Source: BloombergNEF

Let’s set up a call. I’ll email you. At some point, it will be good to have case studies together test / validate the theory. Raddis Cotton is a good contender

What is the #Regenerative Economy? Is it a new concept and practice, or just the recycling of existing ideas under a new label (“old wine in new wine skins”, as the biblical parable puts it)? Here is my attempt at an answer

profwaynevisser.substack.com/p/the-regene...

#regenerativeeconomy
The Regenerative Economy
Linking Theory and Practice
profwaynevisser.substack.com

#Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010

BUT

Perversely, the government regulated price of electricity that the public pays is based on the price of natural gas

We are letting fossil fuels punish us rather than #renewables reward us

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com

Since the 1850s, the populations of people and our domesticated mammals have grown rapidly, whereas the total biomass of wild mammals decreased by more than two-fold.

Source: Nature Communications / U. Moran et al.

Full article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #nature #conservation #biodiversity

Good(ish) news! We're bending the #CO2 curve. For the first time, the #UN has predicted a fall of #emissions: 10% by 2035. Of course it falls way short of the 60% needed to stay within 1.5 degrees, but it is a significant milestone nevertheless.

BBC article: www.bbc.com/news/article... #climate

The market cuts through the political posturing, Republican rhetoric and Trump tirades in the U.S. Clean tech companies are just better investments than fossil fuels today. Why? Could it be - going out on a limb here (not) - because they are the FUTURE?

Source: Bloomberg #cleantech #renewables

Reposted by Joseph Coates

This is what happens when you embrace the open market (used to be a thing, remember?). The UK chose not to impose tariffs on EV imports, unlike the EU and the US. And guess who benefits? The customers. Shocking! Scandalous! 😁

#evs #china #byd #usa #eu #cleantech #uk

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BYD: Chinese EV giant sees UK sales soar by 880%
The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.
www.bbc.co.uk

It’s happening folks … not everywhere and not fast enough, but it’s happening

This is a symbolic tipping point when the old dirty Fossil Fuelled Industrial Revolution gives way to the new Clean Renewable Powered Industrial Revolution

#cleantech #renewables #energy

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.co.uk

It’s a race .. the old world vs the new, the dirty tech vs the clean, the current superpower vs the next .. no prizes for guessing who is winning the race

Source: Bloomberg

A little reminder that America and its MAGA anti #ESG wave is not changing how the rest of the world is #investing

#Japan's $1.8 trillion pension fund is considering a shift into #impact investing, triggering a wider adjustment among the country's money managers.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
World’s Biggest Pension Fund Puts Impact Investing on the Agenda
A decision by Japan’s $1.8 trillion pension fund, the world’s biggest, to consider a shift into impact investing has triggered a wider adjustment among the country’s money managers.
www.bloomberg.com

Or perhaps you would like to make a donation or become a partner?

📩 You can reach out to SLK via their website here: www.slkosova.org/involve
Or message the director of SLK Indira Kartallozi
About | Sustainability Leadership Kosova
www.slkosova.org

🌳 The project is a demonstration of what is possible and it is scalable in other cities, regions and countries.

❓ Would you like to do drone-planting where you are? It's a cost-effective way to take climate action fast and make a positive impact.

🌳 This team will create 25,000 seed-balls, which will be distributed over 10 hectares in the Pristina greater city area.
🌲 The seed-balls are precision-dropped by a state-of-the-art, tailor-made drone, which follows a predetermined grid pattern.

Here are some key facts about the project:

🌳 Kosovo loses more than 2 hectares of forest every day; that's equivalent to the size of 3.5 football fields.
🌲 Over the coming weeks, SLK will work with over 500 volunteers from schools, communities, the police and others.

I was lucky enough to get hands-on with the inspiring Green Wings #drone planting #reforestation project of Sustainability Leadership Kosova (SLK), led by Indira Kartallozi and her amazing team. Here is a little video I made about it.

#naturepositive #nature #restoration

youtu.be/WLMOxXOL3ho?...
Green Wings - Drone Reforestation in Kosovo - Autumn 2025 (With Music)
YouTube video by Wayne Visser
youtu.be

RETURN - a 50-year story of repair, resilience, and White-tailed Eagles

#rspb #documentary #film #conservation #eagles #naturepositive #nature

youtu.be/uInFdcL876I?...
RETURN - a 50-year story of repair, resilience, and White-tailed Eagles - FULL FILM 4K | RSPB
YouTube video by RSPB
youtu.be

At 467,000 hectares, the new Great #Koala national park will be the largest protected area in the state of New South Wales, #Australia. The site is home to an estimated 12,000 koalas which the Australian government classified as endangered in 2022

#naturepositive #nature #conservation #biodiversity

Even clearer in these charts

Even clearer in these charts

A few years ago, skeptics about #BEV #trucks were everywhere. Range anxiety, battery weight, cost, charging infrastructure - the list of barriers were endless. #Hydrogen fuel cells were touted as a better alternative. Well, the market doesn't lie.

Source: Bloomberg

#evs #electrictrucks #cleantech

16. Love

That’s so like Nature
Always wanting to have the last word
And so melodramatic!

But I don’t mind
Nature is part of me
Sky, Ocean, Life, humans
You are all part of me and I am part of you

Continue reading: profwaynevisser.substack.com/p/earth-odys...
Earth Odyssey - (Final) Part 16
A poem by Wayne Visser
profwaynevisser.substack.com