Biodiversity is declining at unprecedented rates, which will lead to significant consequences at a global scale. There is a widespread agreement among science and policy communities that conventional policies will not be enough to halt biodiversity loss or curb climate change. More urgent and ambitious ‘transformative changes’ are needed to the ways in which we live, and the ways in which 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 to sustainability challenges, which are underpinned by complex social paradigms, values and behaviours. TRANSPATH sets out diverse mechanisms to support and enable the addressing of these issues by:
drawing on diverse contexts in Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and Latin America, to engage with those who affect and are affected by trade regimes and associated ‘greening’ mechanisms
designing policy packages and other interventions to enable the emergence of leverage points at different scales of action in ways that change the choice architecture underlying daily decisions
considering the synergies and trade-offs of actions across multiple people and places, and the role of incentives and political barriers to implementation
delivering a suite of Transformative Pathways with a Toolbox of Transformative Interventions for triggering and enabling these pathways
guiding practitioners on how to enable and navigate pathways through a Transformative Navigation Toolkit, acknowledging that arriving at what constitutes a ‘transformative pathway’ is also a product of an iterative and adaptive process that emerges and evolves over time