Biodiversity research is replete with scientific studies depicting future trajectories of decline that have failed to mobilize transformative change. Imagination and creativity can foster new ways to address longstanding problems to create better futures for people and the planet.
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The Biodiversity Revisited Initiative was coordinated by the Luc Hoffmann Institute, in collaboration with WWF, Future Earth, ETH Zürich Department of Environmental Systems Science, University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute and the Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research at University College London, and supported by funding from the MAVA Foundation, the NOMIS Foundation, WWF, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center and the Foundation for Environmental Conservation.
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Wyborn, C., Davila, F., Pereira, L. et al. Imagining transformative biodiversity futures. Nat Sustain 3, 670–672 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0587-5
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