Facilitated Emergence
Design & Innovation for Biodiverse Futures
WELCOME
Welcome to Facilitated Emergence. We are guiding the emergence of Biodiverse Futures where nature and humanity thrive together.
How Can Design and Innovation Close the $942 Billion Biodiversity Finance Gap?
According to BloombergNEF in the run up to COP16 in Cali, the biodiversity finance gap has reached $942 billion, with current investment levels far below the $1.15 trillion needed annually by 2030. As over half of global GDP depends on nature, biodiversity loss, climate change, and land degradation pose interconnected risks that threaten economic stability and ecosystem resilience.
Urgent design and innovation are required to create regenerative pathways, transform finance flows, address these crises, and meet the Global Biodiversity Framework's targets to halt biodiversity loss and restore ecosystems by 2030.
Our initiative seeks to turn these global aspirations into actionable projects that contribute to the five-fold increase in biodiversity finance needed to close the $942 billion funding gap and bring Biodiverse Futures into being.
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Redirect Investment for Nature-Positive Impact
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Restore Resilience Across Interconnected Crises
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Mitigate Nature-Related Economic Risks
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Unlock New Financial Mechanisms for Biodiversity
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Co-Create Solutions with Diverse Stakeholders
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Drive Action to Achieve Global Biodiversity Goals
About Facilitated Emergence: Design & Innovation for Biodiverse Futures
Our Vision & Mission
Welcome to Facilitated Emergence: Design & Innovation for Biodiverse Futures, where we create regenerative pathways for a thriving planet. We specialise in adaptive design and project management methodologies that foster the emergence of Biodiverse Futures, where ecosystems and human societies flourish in harmony.
Embracing Complexity, Facilitating Regeneration
In a world facing unprecedented ecological and social challenges, traditional approaches to design and innovation are failing to direct investment and project activity to regenerative activities at the right scale and pace.
Our methodologies, Facilitated Emergence and Narrative Architecture, offer a new way forward—embracing complexity, promoting resilience, and enabling self-organisation for beneficial outcomes.
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Facilitated Emergence is a complex systems design thinking approach that fosters collaboration and adaptive strategies, allowing solutions to organically emerge from the dynamic interactions of a diverse stakeholder group.
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Narrative Architecture translates ideas into scalable action, simplifying project management by treating projects as evolving narratives, ensuring alignment with stakeholder values and reducing governance overhead.
Together, these methodologies empower us to navigate uncertainty, design for mutual flourishing, and achieve observable results on appropriate timescales.
Shaping Biodiverse Futures
Our mission is to facilitate the emergence of the most beneficial futures—those that are the most biodiverse. Inspired by James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory and cybernetics, we view Earth as a living, self-regulating system. By prioritising regenerative practices, we seek to restore and enhance the natural balance necessary for all life, in line with the goals of the Global Biodiversity Framework and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Power of Cross-Collaboration: Key Stakeholders for Biodiverse Futures
The Facilitated Emergence initiative is interested in collaborating with diverse groups to harness their unique knowledge and perspectives in addressing biodiversity challenges through dynamic design processes. Cross-collaboration ensures solutions are just, inclusive, impactful, and aligned with the Global Biodiversity Framework. Together, we can drive systemic change and close the biodiversity finance gap.
Local Communities
Inhabitants with traditional and Indigenous knowledge and cultural practices who provide critical insights, ensuring projects are relevant, inclusive, and beneficial for those directly impacted by biodiversity initiatives.
Environmental NGOs, Conservationists, and Conflict Resolution Specialists
Organisations and experts focused on biodiversity protection, ecosystem restoration, and managing conflicts arising from differing stakeholder interests, ensuring projects are ecologically sound and socially just.
Policymakers, Regulators, and Multilateral Organisations
Government officials, regulatory bodies, and international institutions that shape policy frameworks, set global standards, and mobilise resources to align projects with biodiversity targets.
Academia, Research Institutions, Technologists, and Systems Change Experts
Universities, research bodies, technology specialists, and systems change experts who bring scientific knowledge, data analysis, and innovative approaches for addressing complex systems and advancing project outcomes.
Corporate and Financial Sector
Companies, investors, and financial institutions that integrate nature-positive strategies into business models, risk management, and finance, driving systemic change in biodiversity funding.
Project Professionals and Large Group Facilitation Experts
Specialists in project design, management, and execution, along with facilitators skilled in guiding large group processes and implementing systems change, ensuring methodologies like Facilitated Emergence and Narrative Architecture are effectively applied.
Join us on the journey
Explore our methodologies, participate in our training programs, or collaborate with us on regenerative projects. Together, we can design a future where nature and humanity thrive as one.
Explore how our adaptive design approach harnesses complexity to co-create solutions that foster biodiversity and resilience.
Discover how our minimalist project management method aligns actions with stakeholder values, simplifying complexity to deliver impactful outcomes.
