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An expanded climate and innovation agenda

‍The failure over the last decades to deliver the changes needed for a sustainable development path and the increased understanding of  new opportunities that exist, as well as rapidly emerging technologies, business models and values, have resulted in calls for an expanded climate innovation agenda.

Instead of only focusing on how current stakeholders, countries, cities, companies, financial organisations, etc. can reduce their own emissions and focus on current sectors, this initiative moves beyond such a “static problem approach” to include a “dynamic solution approach”. This expanded climate innovation agenda expands the focus in two dimensions:

1. A shift in focus from problems to solutions
   ‍Rather than only focusing on reducing negative impacts from current systems an expanded climate innovation agenda also focuses on how to deliver smart sustainable solutions, which deliver on human needs.
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2. ‍A shift in focus from  current systems to  human needs
   ‍Rather than only focusing on existing systems, which are limited by current behaviours and perceptions, an expanded climate innovation provides a human needs approach, which focuses on what a flourishing life is, and how it can be achieved in a sustainable way. This facilitates a shift in perspective, with an emphasis on long-term thinking regarding lifestyle influence, decision-making and perceived satisfaction, in addition to technical solutions.

The ”Flourishing brain and mind science” assessments are an important part of the toolbox for globally sustainable solutions. In addition to providing guidance for key stakeholders when it comes to identifying, supporting and accelerating solutions for the 21st century it also has the potential to provide guidance for a post SDG agenda with focus on flourishing lives for all on a regenerative planet.

For an agenda that is not only about reducing the bad but also improving current sectors and systems, there is a need to understand what a flourishing life is. Brain and mind science can provide important insights to support this agenda.

It can also provide crucial insights when it comes to a human-need and solution driven agenda and how current organisations and individual can move beyond tools, and framweworks that they have grown used to over recent decades.  

Brain and mind science can also adds a deeper understanding to our relationship with existential threats and new extreme challenges with new technologies that existing models fail to take into account.

These are just a few of the opportunities that brain and mind science can provide for a post SDG agenda for the world.