Unblocking barriers to nature-positive solutions: a State of the Nation deep dive

The ICE has released a special series of podcasts looking at how different sectors can come together to develop nature- and people-positive infrastructure.

In the filmed podcasts, cross-sector expert panels explore barriers and the practical solutions to overcome them:

• Podcast 1: Funding nature-positive infrastructure
• Podcast 2: Overcoming systemic barriers to a nature-positive world

Engaging with early career engineers

As the 2023-24 ICE President, Professor Anusha Shah has been engaging with a group of talented early-career engineers who represent the future of the profession.

These President’s Future Leaders have shown a strong commitment to being nature- and people-positive as they gain experience and influence.

Tomorrow’s senior engineers can achieve this crucial goal only if the profession can let go of long-established attitudes and practices – and persuade key stakeholders to follow suit.

Green over grey

Wherever possible, the sector must avoid resorting to traditional grey infrastructure solutions, with environmental impacts that could end up costing the Earth.

Instead, it must keep a nature first approach, favour green assets that work in harmony with the natural world and restore and revive biodiversity on which we all depend.

Nonetheless, making this transformation on a meaningful scale is far easier said than done.

The specially commissioned pair of filmed podcasts explore some of the key concerns raised by members of this year’s Future Leaders programme.

They focus on the systemic problems they’re likely to face on their mission.

Watch the podcasts

Funding nature-positive infrastructure

Overcoming systemic barriers to a nature-positive world