Today’s biodiversity and climate crises demand immediate, wide-ranging, and profound changes in our thinking, our behavior, and our institutions. This aspiration is not new.
Transformative Conservation (TC) is, however, a new approach to conservation that seeks to directly restructure the relationships between people, society, and nature.
The desired outcomes are to (A) conserve biodiversity while (B) justly transitioning society to net negative emissions economies, and (C) securing the sustainable and regenerative use of natural resources.
This pitch reviews the six strategic, interlocking recommendations for practicing transformative conservation, including taking a systems approach; partnering with political movements to achieve equitable and just transformation; linking societal with personal (‘inner') transformation; updating how we plan; facilitating shifts from diagnosis and planning to action; and improving our ability to adjust to transformation as it occurs.
