Project
TransPath
More urgent and ambitious ‘transformative changes’ are needed to how we live and how our economies and societies use and relate to nature and natural resources. Transformative change focuses on the fundamental system-wide restructuring of the root causes of sustainability challenges, which are underpinned by complex social paradigms, values and behaviours.
The project aims to use an inclusive deliberative process to identify context-specific leverage points and associated interventions that create enabling conditions. These are needed to accelerate diverse transformative pathways for mutually influencing extraction, production, and consumption that jointly enhance biodiversity, climate mitigation and climate adaptation, with sensitivity to different social-cultural contexts and rights. Key result areas are:
- to set up an External Expert Advisory Board and Science-policy-practitioner Labs at multiple scales;
- to identify and characterise leverage points for diverse contexts;
- to integrate and customise European/global pathways by considering coupled biodiversity-climate actions and critical leverage points;
- to identify and test alternative interventions at global and European scales that can trigger transformative change at the level of consumers, producers and organisations.
To achieve these results, the project focuses on five cases: (1&2) Eastern and Western European case reflecting the differential socio-economic and ecological conditions and challenges faced by these contexts; (2) Global trade agreements and trade regulations; (3) EU financial sector; and (4) tele connected global value chain regulations and effects on land and forest protection/restoration.