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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

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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

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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 29

🌍 My work on #Regenerative #Business, #Innovation & #Technology:

BlueSky - @waynevisser.bsky.social
LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/wayneviss...
Substack - profwaynevisser.substack.com
Instagram - www.instagram.com/waynevisser1/
Website - www.waynevisser.com
Speaker - youtu.be/mV49J6nXeuo?... 🌻

Dr Wayne Visser - Speaker Reel

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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 24d

#Innovation never ceases to amaze me. Spain-based bound4blue’s technology — tube-like structures up to 36 meters (118 feet) high — suck in wind during a #shipping vessel’s journey and use fans to create thrust, reducing #emissions and cutting fuel consumption by as much as 40%

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 24d

Clean tech - including #batteries (along with #renewables) - are facing their toughest political and market conditions in a decade. Yet still, the march of progress continues

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 24d

Interesting Gallup poll conducted 25 years ago. Do you expect the following to happen by 2025? It seems that it is wise to err on the side of caution.

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · 29d

If you want to support an #AI boom (Mr Trump and others), there is only one economically rational way to supply the #energy needed

Source: Bloomberg #renewables #cleantech #climatetech #solar #wind

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 24

Join Dr Sally Uren, Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer for Forum for the #Future and myself for this free webinar #Systems Shift: Insights from the #Galapagos Islands - on 27 November at 14.00-15.00 GMT / UK time.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 18

Hope for the future ..

#whales

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two

The search for a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale had taken five years, when a thieving albatross nearly ruined it all

www.theguardian.com

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 18

A win for #rewilding

Once-extinct wildcats to make a comeback in England www.bbc.com/news/article...

#naturepositive #nature #conservation

Once-extinct European wildcats set to make a comeback in England

Fifty wildcats could be reintroduced to the countryside in south west England, conservationists say.

www.bbc.com

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 14

Announcement: 2026 #Thriving Facilitators Online Course - Would you like to become a Thriving practitioner, using insights and tools to apply the Thriving methodology in your organisation or those of your clients or partners? Find out more here:

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#thriving | Prof. Wayne Visser

🌻 Announcement: 2026 #Thriving Facilitators Course - Would you like to become a Thriving practitioner, using insights and tools to apply the Thriving methodology in your organisation or those of your ...

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Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 12

2930 huh 🤣

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 12

As #COP continues with its tortuous negotiations in #Belem, is #China emerging as the new global leader on #climate change? This data makes a compelling argument ...

#carbon #CO2 #emissions

theprogressplaybook.com/2025/11/11/c...

China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months

Power-sector emissions were flat in the third quarter, even as electricity demand growth accelerated to 6.1%.

theprogressplaybook.com

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 12

At least 14 countries are on track to get more than half of their #electricity from #wind and #solar by 2030, according to the International #Energy Agency. Can you guess who?

#renewables #renewablenergy

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/10/14/t...

These countries are leading the way to 100% renewable electricity

Explore the countries making strides toward 100% renewable electricity with innovative solutions and sustainable energy systems.

theprogressplaybook.com

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 4

Bolsonaro

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 4

And here is the power of leadership. Balsanaro vs Lula

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 4

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

#naturepositive #nature #conservation

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Nov 3

#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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 30

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 30

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 30

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 29

#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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 29

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 28

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 14

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 12

Good news on #biodiversity. The decline of #nature is not inevitable.

#naturepositive #conservation #turtles

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

www.bbc.co.uk

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 7

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 7

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 6

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

Prof Wayne Visser @waynevisser.bsky.social · Oct 6

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...