Screening Event: Becoming Nature Positive

Nature loss is increasingly recognised as one of the defining risks of our time, with profound implications for infrastructure systems, economic resilience and human wellbeing. As the engineering and infrastructure professions confront the interconnected climate and biodiversity crises, there is growing recognition that future infrastructure systems must not only minimise environmental harm, but actively contribute to restoring and regenerating nature.

As part of London Climate Action Week, this event will feature a screening of Becoming Nature Positive, a new 30-minute documentary created by the Nature Positive Initiative and Open Planet Studios. The film explores what the global “nature positive” goal means in practice and why it matters now for business, policy, finance and society. Through perspectives from global leaders across science, industry, civil society and policy, the film highlights the choices facing decision-makers today and the opportunities presented by a nature-positive transition.

Following the screening, ICSI will convene a panel discussion, bringing together experts from industry, civil society and academia to explore what a shift towards a nature-positive mindset means for the engineering and infrastructure professions. The discussion will consider how infrastructure planning, design, finance and governance can better align with ecological resilience, and how practitioners can help accelerate a just and sustainable transition.

The session aims to foster dialogue across sectors and disciplines, helping to build a shared understanding of the role engineering can play in halting and reversing nature loss while delivering resilient, inclusive and future-ready infrastructure systems.

This event is being hosted by Bentley Systems.

Meet our speakers:

• Gavin Edwards, Executive Director, Nature Positive Initiative
• Beth Elliot, Director of Communications, Lloyds’ Register Foundation (Moderator)
• Anita Van Breda, Senior Director, WWF US
• Anusha Shah, Founder & CEO, Plan for Earth
• Chris Bradshaw, Chief Sustainability and Education Officer, Bentley Systems
• Tom Butterworth, Fellow & Director, Nature Lead, Arup
• Hamza Butt, Programme Officer, Nature Economy, UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)