Nature-Based Solutions at Scale: SGI Day
March 27, 2025
Saudi Green Initiative Day highlights large-scale environmental action—10 billion trees, 278 million tonnes of emissions reduced annually, and 30% of land and sea protected by 2030.
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Nature-Based Solutions at Scale: SGI Day
Green Riyadh: Greening the Desert
The Financial Impact of Nature
Nature Positive: Financing the Transition in Cities Report Released
Practical Strategies for Restoring and Regenerating Nature: Leaders’ Insights
Impact One attends Second Davos Baukultur Alliance Annual Meeting
Cultivating nature, cooling cities: An urban future grown to last
Guidelines for the Transition in Cities: How to Rehabilitate Nature in the Urban Context
Building the Urban Future
Impact One partners with AxessImpact
Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso at Doha Expo
Winds of Yawanawa at the World Economic Forum 2024
Sense of Healing: Art & Wellbeing
Choreographing a Climate of Wellbeing
Impact One at the COP28 Business & Philanthropy Forum
Impact One announces COP28 Programme
Why We Must Talk About Nature-Positive Cities
Impact One commissions Machine Simulations: Life and Dreams
Global Commission for Nature-Positive Cities
Annabel’s Indigenous Voices Breakfast
Winds of Yawanawa debuts for Annabel’s for the Amazon Campaign
Launch of Winds of Yawanawa
Impact One commissions Winds of Yawanawa
Annual Meeting of New Champions 2023
Impact One joins the Davos Baukultur Alliance
The Emergence of Biodiversity Credits
The Role of Forestry in the Voluntary Carbon Market
Possible Futures at WEF23
Standardisation of Life Cycle Assessments (LCA)
Impact One launches Possible Futures
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Nature-Based Solutions at Scale: SGI Day
Saudi Green Initiative Day highlights large-scale environmental action—10 billion trees, 278 million tonnes of emissions reduced annually, and 30% of land and sea protected by 2030.
Green Riyadh: Greening the Desert
As cities in arid climates face rising temperatures, water scarcity, and air pollution, afforestation emerges as a powerful solution. Green Riyadh—one of the world’s most ambitious urban greening projects—is transforming the Saudi capital with 7.5 million trees, cooling the city, improving air quality, and enhancing urban livability.
The Financial Impact of Nature
Nature is now a financial risk—Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is leading a market shift, proving that investing in nature is an economic necessity.
Nature Positive: Financing the Transition in Cities Report Released
The report draws attention to the critical role cities play as drivers of the global economy and underscores the untapped potential of nature-based solutions to address challenges such as ageing infrastructure, water security, and public health.
Practical Strategies for Restoring and Regenerating Nature: Leaders’ Insights
The World Economic Forum’s Global Commission on Nature-Positive Cities, of which Impact One is a member, releases the Nature Positive: Leaders’ Insights for the Transition in Cities report.
Impact One attends Second Davos Baukultur Alliance Annual Meeting
After signing the Davos Baukultur Alliance in June 2023, Impact One returns to the Annual Meeting alongside public and private sector stakeholders to improve the planning, construction, and management of buildings, infrastructure, public spaces, and landscapes.
Cultivating nature, cooling cities: An urban future grown to last
A new article co-authored by Mikolaj Sekutowicz, CEO of Impact One, discusses how amidst challenges lies a solution: by integrating green-blue infrastructure into a city’s fabric.
Guidelines for the Transition in Cities: How to Rehabilitate Nature in the Urban Context
A framework for cities to understand and discuss how to rehabilitate nature in the urban context.
Building the Urban Future
From 28-29 April 2024, the Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development will be held by the World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Impact One partners with AxessImpact
Through the partnership with AxessImpact, Impact One expands on its mission to establish sustainable business models for ecosystem preservation and restoration, evaluating ecosystem services beyond carbon removal. This includes the development of new and innovative impact certificates that aim to recognise the value of indigenous communities’ stewardship of their ecosystems, and guarantee the highest standards of accountability and impact of environmental credits.
Nation of Plants by Stefano Mancuso at Doha Expo
Leading neurobiologist and professor at the University of Florence, Stefano Mancuso, presents his exhibition The Nation of Plants at the Doha Expo in Qatar. In collaboration with Red Joint Films and Balich Wonder Studio, the exhibition presents solutions for a better future. CEO of Impact One, Mikolaj Sekutowicz, visited the exhibition, guided by Stefano Mancuso himself.
Among his many scientific achievements, Mancuso has demonstrated the crucial impact that plants have, not only on planetary health, but also on our own cognitive skills and healing processes. Plants represent the oldest and most advanced life form that has ever existed. They have continued to support and sustain the lives of all other species.
Winds of Yawanawa at the World Economic Forum 2024
Winds of Yawanawa, the first-of-its-kind artwork series co-created by Refik Anadol and the Yawanawa and commissioned by Impact One, was put on display to an international audience of the world’s leading figures at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2024.
Sense of Healing: Art & Wellbeing
Refik Anadol, Sense of Healing: AI Data Sculpture A, AURORA Evening of Discovery, July 2022 Refik Anadol’s project, Sense of Healing, stands at the forefront of the intersection between art and science, an area offering transformative possibilities for healing. As holistic approaches to mental and emotional health gain increasing focus, this AI-driven data sculpture, commissioned by Ikona, a cultural impact venture under Impact One, merges neuroscience, art, and advanced technology to create a multisensory experience scientifically proven to enhance relaxation and wellbeing. Refik Anadol, Sense of Healing: AI Data Sculpture A Sense of Healing is a software-based artwork that emerges from Refik Anadol Studio’s long-term research into creating meditative art based on neurological data. Using cutting-edge visualisation tools, the artwork addresses fundamental questions about the brain’s architecture through datasets gathered via EEG sensors, fMRI, and DTI imaging techniques. The artwork’s aim
Choreographing a Climate of Wellbeing
On COP’s first ever designated Health Day, the Arts, Health & Climate Panel explored the role of the arts in translating the science of climate change, and its impact on human and planetary health.
Impact One at the COP28 Business & Philanthropy Forum
The Business & Philanthropy Climate Forum (BPCF) was COP28’s multi stakeholder engagement platform dedicated to driving cross-sectoral advancements towards achieving net zero and nature-positive goals. On 2 December 2023, presenting the session “Unlocking the Trillion Dollar Economy” Impact One highlighted the need to redefine the way in which ecosystems are valued economically. With no system in place that correctly values and consequently protects ecosystem services, the session brought together leading experts in the financial and environmental sectors, to call for a collaborative, global push towards ecosystem protection and regeneration led by those who steward the planet’s most vital ecosystems.
Impact One announces COP28 Programme
From the Desert to the Amazon: Impact One, as part of its {possible Futures initiative, presents a series of panels, presentations and cultural activations in collaborations with it’s partner network.
Why We Must Talk About Nature-Positive Cities
At the first-ever COP-hosted event for cities, the WEF Global Commission on Nature-Positive Cities announces its commitment to shaping a more regenerative future for all.
Impact One commissions Machine Simulations: Life and Dreams
Hanwha Lifeplus Commissions Impact One And Refik Anadol Studio For New Artwork Celebrating Korean Culture. On the occasion of the Seoul International Firework Festival in October 2023, Impact One, in partnership with Ikona, commissioned Refik Anadol’s brand new and first permanent artwork in South Korea for Hanwha LIFEPLUS.
Global Commission for Nature-Positive Cities
World Economic Forum’s Global Commission for Nature-Positive Cities inaugurated in partnership with Impact One
Impact One joins the World Economic Forum’s Global Commission for Nature-Positive Cities, an initiative that aims to create a pathway for more resilient, equitable and prosperous cities.
Annabel’s Indigenous Voices Breakfast
The Annabel’s for Amazon fundraising event united advocates for Amazon preservation and climate action. Impact One, together with Yawanawa Chief Isku Kua and Indigenous activist Mariana Maia, attended the Annabel’s for Amazon fundraising event that united advocates for Amazon preservation and climate action