My work has brought me close to decision-makers in governments, multilateral agencies, NGOs, communities, and many wonderful people who strive for a better world. I am profoundly thankful and honored for the wonderful opportunity they have given me to contribute with work that is strongly anchored in concrete policy challenges.
Lead author, IPBES Assessment of the Underlying Causes of Biodiversity Loss and the Determinants of Transformative Change
This new work programme includes a thematic assessment of transformative change whose objective would be to understand and identify factors in human society at both the individual and collective levels, including behavioural, social, cultural, economic, institutional, technical and technological dimensions, that may be leveraged to bring about transformative change for the conservation, restoration and wise use of biodiversity, while taking into account broader social and economic goals in the context of sustainable development. Read more…
Project coordinator, Transformative Pathways for Synergising Just Biodiversity and Climate Actions
Conventional approaches to improve the sustainability of consumption and production are frequently too piecemeal, heavily sectorial, and tend to rely too heavily on voluntary incentives and market mechanisms.
Transformative changes can be triggered by carefully designed interventions at different scales of action that change the choice architecture underpinning day-to-day decisions. The design of such interventions and associated enabling conditions needs to consider system-wide trade-offs and the role of incentives and political barriers to policy implementation. Read more…
Principal Investigator, Sustainable Consumption and Production Economics (SCOPE )
The overall objective of EfD-SCOPE is to identify leverage points and associated interventions for triggering and enabling transformative changes at the level of consumers, producers and organizations, thus accelerating diverse transformative pathways towards consumption that is in harmony with the natural environment (SDG12). Such interventions should be sensitive to social-cultural contexts and rights, and therefore collaborative, cross-country research is of the utmost urgency and importance. Read more…
Francisco Alpízar 