Seeds of Change: Responding to Global Change in a Bottom-up World
Many believe that global institutions and frameworks are failing to generate necessary progress on issues such as climate change, water scarcity, biodiversity, food security, and poverty eradication; and that state, tribal and local governments, and communities, innovative companies, social and technology entrepreneurs, NGOs, impact investors, consumers, and philanthropists increasingly are taking the lead in creating bottom-up solutions to these challenges.聽
The conference explored this dynamic in detail, with an emphasis on the drivers behind these ground-level innovations, and on how they can better 鈥渇ilter up鈥� to inform the global conversations occurring on how best to address the various dimensions of 鈥済lobal change鈥�.