Resource Optimization

A new report from the Earth Commission ( 👉https://lnkd.in/eJbAZxiR), I think more outspoken on what should be done to get to 🌍 𝐀 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭: 𝐔𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 🌱 A quote: "𝚄𝚗𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚖𝚒𝚌 𝚜𝚢𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚜." This report is way too much to make a summary here. A breakdown of the key solutions and transitions we need to prioritize: 🌟 Key Solutions and Transitions: 🔘 Defining Safe and Just Earth-System Boundaries (ESBs): The report identifies eight ESBs across climate, freshwater, biosphere, nutrient cycles, and air quality, emphasizing that seven have already been breached. To reverse this, we need immediate action on multiple fronts, including rebalancing resource use and restoring natural ecosystems. 🔘Operationalizing Change at Multiple Levels: It's not enough to set global targets. Solutions must be translated across scales—from local to global actors, especially in cities and businesses that have the power to act swiftly. Cross-scale translation, coupled with equitable resource sharing, is essential to ensuring that justice accompanies sustainability. 🔘Systemic Transformations: Moving forward requires reimagining how we produce food, manage energy, and govern resources. This means a shift from the extractive economies driving our current crises toward regenerative models that balance human needs with the planet’s boundaries. The report underscores the importance of redistributing natural resources, moving away from a model of endless economic growth to one that emphasizes human and ecological well-being. This aligns with post-growth thinking, which advocates for reduced consumption, especially in high-income regions, and a transition toward more sustainable and equitable resource distribution. The evidence is undeniable—we are operating outside safe planetary boundaries, risking both human health and Earth’s ecosystems. Incremental changes will not suffice. We need bold, radical transformations that prioritize justice, equity, and sustainability to ensure a thriving planet for future generations. 🌱🌎

New Publication Alert! Check out our latest #publication with Seema Yadav: “Toward Ecosystem Restoration and Climate-Resilient Communities: Findings from a Restoration Opportunities Assessment in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, India.” 🌿🌾🌍 India needs to manage its #landscapes sustainably while balancing the competing priorities of agricultural productity, economic development, and ecosystem conservation The #Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra—a rainfed, resource-rich region—exemplifies the challenges faced by the India’s rainfed cultivable areas and these competing pressures. Despite its wealth in forests and minerals, Gadchiroli struggles with high poverty, poor health and infrastructure, and other socioeconomic challenges. 💡 Using a landscape approach, this assessment identifies integrated interventions across agriculture, forests and water resources for Gadchiroli district while placing community-based institutions at the center of restoration efforts. 📘 Building on the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)—adapted for the Indian context in Sidhi district, India —this assessment expands its scope to improve the resilience of communities to climate change and identifies opportunity for ecosystem restoration in 1.17 million hectares. 🔎 Key ecosystem restoration interventions include: - Reviving rice fallows and promoting crop diversification 🌾 - Scaling tree-based interventions in forests 🌳 - Conserving protected areas and water resources 💧 - Supporting livelihood diversification and income resilience 📈 - Enhancing food, fodder, fuelwood, minor forest produce, and biodiversity 🌺 👥 Most importantly, the study recommends strengthening gram sabhas and mainstreaming panchayat development plans to ensure that restoration is community-led and community-owned. 📖 Read the full report here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gHt-QbZU #ClimateResilience #EcosystemRestoration #CommunityLed #Gadchiroli #ROAM #LandscapesForPeople

With six months until #COP30, and over a billion people still living in the Global South without access to reliable electricity, this is the moment to recalibrate on what is needed to build resilient energy infrastructure across some of the toughest geographies in the world. In other words, infrastructure that fully values distributed energy resources (DER). Because the right money, directed at the wrong questions, won’t solve much. What we need now is to focus on the mechanics of delivery: - What does it take to keep decentralized systems running long after the pilot runs? - How do we structure financing that matches the long arc of local infrastructure where returns are steady, not instant? - And who’s building the connective tissue; the trusted institutions, operators, and intermediaries that sit between global capital and last-mile execution? These may not be headline questions. But they’re the difference between infrastructure that scales and infrastructure that stalls. As we look ahead to Belém, let’s not just talk about ambition. Let’s talk about durability. Let’s ensure that private operators with real delivery experience have a seat at the table, not just to comment, but to help shape how this gets done. Because climate resilience isn’t something we pledge. It’s something we operate, maintain, and improve over time, under pressure, and in the real world. And if we start asking sharper questions now, we’ll be in a far better position to deliver meaningful answers by #COP30.

Global Food Systems at a Crossroads: Strategic Insights from Summer Davos 2025!! Global leaders converged at the World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos” in Tianjin recently under the theme “Entrepreneurship for a New Era.” The discussions reinforced a powerful truth: Food security, climate resilience, and inclusive growth are no longer siloed goals—they’re interdependent imperatives. Here are four strategic insights that should shape boardroom agendas and public-private investments alike: 🌱 1. Smallholders: The Underleveraged Force for Resilience. Smallholder farmers—responsible for 35% of the world’s food—emerged as pivotal to climate adaptation and food system diversification. India’s public-private partnership models are now templates for success beyond staples, and initiatives like the 2x30 Challenge (targeting $100B annual financing for Africa’s agri-food systems) spotlight scalable transformation through policy alignment and financial innovation. 💧 2. Climate-Smart Innovations: From Risk to Opportunity. 2024 was the hottest year on record—an urgent call for climate-proof food and water systems. Water Intelligence: AI-enabled irrigation is now a corporate responsibility, not just a farm-level choice. Nature-Positive Transitions: From crop diversification to global agroforestry, nature-based solutions present $10 trillion in global investable potential by 2030. Renewable Integration: With renewables now outpacing fossil fuels in investment, the rural energy equation is shifting—especially in Asia and Africa. 🤖 3. Democratizing AI: From Hype to Inclusion. AI can equalize or exclude. Tools like Climate Trace are redefining precision farming, but talent gaps persist—women still hold <15% of AI leadership roles. The future lies in inclusive skilling, youth-led innovation, and governance that prioritizes open access over proprietary advantage. 💸 4. Rethinking Finance for Equity and Scale. The most compelling financial innovations are farmer-first: Parametric micro-insurance and carbon-linked credits are helping hedge against climate volatility. Corporate alliances like the First Movers Coalition for Food are mainstreaming market incentives for sustainable sourcing. Gender-lens investing is gaining traction, but with full parity 123 years away, urgency must replace rhetoric. What’s Next: Summer Davos 2025 reminded us that geopolitical fragmentation must give way to collaborative governance. All eyes now turn to COP30 in Brazil and the United Nations Food Systems Summit—key moments to align capital, climate, and communities. Let’s lead with purpose: Inclusive entrepreneurship isn’t charity—it’s strategy.

Why leverage avoided emissions ? #scope4 creates value? 1) to maximize its avoided emissions, a heat pump manufacturer can benefit from targeting customers equipped with the most carbon-intensive heating solutions to displace as much fossil energy as possible. 2) A shared car service provider can target cities where the use of cars for short trips is prevalent rather than cities with extensive use of good quality public transportation. Altogether, avoided emissions can be the right incentive for companies to focus on the right climate solutions and the right markets. For #enterprise: By enabling the quantification of climate-related benefits, avoided emissions assessments can provide leading companies (i.e., first movers) with the necessary platform to develop and scale solutions in markets with the highest decarbonization potential, resulting in a new type of climate leadership and value creation. For Investors: Investors and financial actors wishing to move beyond investees' #GHG emissions and associated risks can leverage avoided emissions to understand and quantify the #netzero aligned opportunities associated with current and future investment decisions. Avoided emissions assessments can provide investors with this additional opportunity-oriented lens. This can help them identify, assess, and ultimately invest in companies that are future-proofing their businesses by leading the #greentransition and driving #decarbonization with their solutions. For policymakers: Governing bodies can leverage avoided emissions at two complementary levels: Prioritizing government action, i.e., to support the identification of the most relevant decarbonizing solutions to be deployed in a given area or, alternatively, the areas to be prioritized for selected decarbonizing solutions or actions. Supporting policy mechanisms (e.g., incentivization mechanisms, regulation) to speed up decarbonization efforts from businesses as well as through innovation. This is particularly relevant in the context of regulations aimed at incentivizing the most efficient solutions - avoided emissions-based regulations could incorporate a dynamic element to the regulations by basing these on the evolving market averages or identified best-in-class solutions (e.g., the most energy-efficient solution on a 3-year period becoming the energy efficiency threshold for that type of solution the next 3-year period).

🚧 Stop Building More—Start Using What We Have The building sector is one of the biggest drivers of climate collapse and global injustice—not because we lack homes, but because wealthy countries refuse to stop expanding. 📌 The hard truth: 🔹 The biggest driver of resource consumption isn’t population growth—it’s floor area expansion per capita, mostly in the Global North. 🔹 The building sector is responsible for 21% of global emissions, 50% of extracted materials, and 30% of global waste. 🔹 Even if construction reaches “net-zero,” it will still exceed planetary boundaries unless total environmental footprint is cut in half. 🔹 Efforts to increase efficiency, switch to renewables, and recycle materials have FAILED to reduce emissions—because they enable more construction instead of reducing demand. 🔹 We cannot build our way out of a crisis caused by overconsumption. 💡 The solution? Stop overbuilding. Start reusing. Europe already has more than enough buildings: ✅ France: 172% of annual new housing demand could be met by repurposing vacant and underused buildings. ✅ Germany: Up to 348% of new construction could be avoided through sufficiency measures. ✅ Denmark: Housing demand can be met without expanding the built environment. 🚨 New construction locks in carbon emissions, land use, and resource extraction for decades. Instead of endless expansion, we must: ✅ Stop speculative new construction—build only when absolutely necessary. ✅ Prioritize renovation over demolition. ✅ Redistribute and repurpose existing buildings. ✅ Reduce total floor area per person to fit within planetary boundaries. 📢 Housing is not a luxury—it’s a necessity. But the Global North’s overconsumption prevents others from meeting their basic needs. 🔎 If Europe stops overbuilding, resources and carbon space can be freed up for those who actually need them. 💡 More for those who need it. Less for those who have too much. 📖 Read the full scientific literature here: Sufficiency and the Built Environment | GlobalABC Sufficiency in the building sector for the whole life carbon roadmap - final report > BPIE - Buildings Performance Institute Europe Developing sufficiency-based sharing principles for absolute environmental sustainability assessment using decent living standards and planetary boundaries - ScienceDirect

** Why "Clean Core" and "Fit to standard" should be guiding principles of your SAP S/4HANA implementation *** In the ever-evolving landscape of SAP ERP projects, two guiding principles stand out as essential pillars for achieving seamless and effective implementations: "Fit to Standard" and "Clean Core." These principles may seem straightforward, but their impact is nothing short of transformative. Let's dive into why they are crucial for doing ERP projects right: 🎯 "Fit to Standard" - Aligning with Best Practices: One size doesn't fit all, but striving for alignment with proven industry best practices sets the foundation for success. Embracing "Fit to Standard" means leveraging the out-of-the-box functionalities offered by modern ERP systems. This approach minimizes unnecessary customizations, streamlines processes, and accelerates implementation timelines. By optimizing existing features, your organization can harness the power of tried-and-true processes, ensuring efficiency and future scalability. 🌟 "Clean Core" - The Essence of Simplicity: Complexity may seem impressive, but simplicity is where true power resides. A "Clean Core" philosophy advocates for a streamlined and uncluttered SAP environment. By avoiding bloated configurations and intricate customizations, you ensure smoother system maintenance, easier upgrades, and reduced risk of bottlenecks. A clean core paves the way for agility, allowing your organization to adapt swiftly to changing business needs. If you need to individualize, SAP BTP is the perfect platform for it, not need to modify your ERP. 📈 The Impact on ROI and Long-Term Success: Embracing "Fit to Standard" and "Clean Core" isn't just about immediate gains – it's an investment in the future. These principles result in a more manageable and cost-effective ERP landscape, driving up your return on investment over time. Moreover, they position your organization to readily adopt innovations and embrace digital transformation without the burden of cumbersome legacy structures. 💡 So, How Can You Leverage These Principles? Begin by fostering a deep understanding of your organization's unique requirements while acknowledging that not every customization is a necessity. Engage in thorough business process analysis, mapping your processes to the standard functionalities offered by your ERP system. Embrace "Clean Core" by focusing on what truly adds value to your operations and resisting the temptation to over-engineer. By adopting "Fit to Standard" and "Clean Core" principles, you're not only setting the stage for a successful ERP implementation but also paving the way for sustained growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. Let's chart a course toward ERP excellence, where simplicity and alignment lead to remarkable achievements. #SAP #FitToStandard #CleanCore #DigitalTransformation #BusinessExcellence #Innovation

𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲-𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 If you’re looking for something thoughtful to go through over the weekend, the UNDP–FAO Climate Action Review (CAR) Tool is well worth the time. In our sustainability work, one recurring challenge is the gap between high-level climate plans and on-the-ground action. This tool helps bridge that gap by guiding countries to translate their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) into actionable, transformative interventions in agriculture and land use. 🚜 🍃 What stands out is how practical and participatory the tool is. It doesn’t just outline climate priorities. It provides a step-by-step approach to assess, prioritize, and implement adaptation measures with the potential to drive system-wide transformation. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗜 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: ▪️ Six essential elements, from climate rationale to gender equity, private sector engagement, innovation, sustainable development, and whole-of-government collaboration are central to transformative adaptation. ▪️A clear five-step process bridges the gap between planning and implementation. ▪️Evaluation criteria and scoring rubrics make decision-making transparent and robust. ▪️The participatory approach fosters ownership and alignment with local realities. ▪️The tool also doubles as a roadmap and communications instrument for financing and policy advocacy. 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀? ➡️ Policymakers can better prioritize and mobilize resources. ➡️Practitioners gain clarity on implementing transformative projects. ➡️Financiers and donors can spot high-impact opportunities. ➡️Farmers and rural communities benefit from more resilient, equitable, and sustainable food systems. For those of us committed to advancing climate action in agriculture, this is more than just a tool, it’s a bridge between ambition and real impact. #planetaryhealth #planetaryboundaries #sustainability #ClimateAction #carbonfootprint #NetZero #ClimateEmergency #SDG #ESG #GHG #netzero

When we face extreme heat, the common advice is: “Buy an air conditioner,” “Get a cooler,” or “Use a fan.” These responses feel intuitive—because they reflect the solutions we already know. But what happens when there is no stable electricity? When power bills are unaffordable? When the home is a single-room structure with a tin roof where an AC simply won’t work? This disconnect reveals a deeper issue. Across climate, energy, and air pollution challenges, we often propose solutions that assume supportive systems—electricity, finance, infrastructure—already exist. But in much of the Global South, these systems are fragmented, missing, or inaccessible. Our intentions may be good, but without asking uncomfortable questions, we risk recommending tools that are simply unusable. This isn’t a rejection of innovation. It’s a call for critical prioritization. We often hear that “all work is important.” And while that’s true, we must also ask: Important for whom? At what time scale? And under what conditions? A long-term research breakthrough and a short-term cooling shelter both matter—but they serve different purposes. When working with communities facing urgent risks, feasibility, timing, and equity must guide our actions. These are not abstract concerns. For hundreds of millions across the Global South, this is daily life. Many climate “solutions” today are designed with assumptions—reliable electricity, formal housing, affordable energy, inclusive financing. Without these foundations, such solutions become products of privilege, not tools of resilience. We don’t need just more solutions. We need a fundamental shift in how we define them. That means moving beyond innovation-as-default, and toward a systems approach—one that centers lived reality, works within real-world constraints, and builds long-term capability. Resilience doesn’t begin with what we can deploy. It begins with what people can sustain. Ajay Nagpure

The Clean Core principle is vital for agility, maintainability, and seamless upgrades. When integrating Business Partner (BP), adopting modern APIs instead of traditional methods like IDOCs ensures a clean, future-proof architecture. Why Move Beyond IDOCs? Customization Complexity: Extending IDOCs adds technical debt. Real-Time Gaps: Limited capabilities for synchronous communication. Cloud Misalignment: IDOCs struggle to align with scalable, event-driven cloud architectures. To align with Clean Core principles, SAP provides modern APIs: SOAP APIs: Structured communication for synchronous BP replication. OData APIs: RESTful services for CRUD operations on BP data. REST APIs: Lightweight, scalable integration for cloud scenarios. Event-Driven Integration (SAP Event Mesh): Asynchronous, decoupled communication via BP-created/changed events. Benefits of Clean Core APIs: Upgrade-Safe: Standard APIs ensure compatibility. Real-Time & Scalable: Support synchronous and asynchronous use cases. Cloud-Ready: Fit for hybrid and cloud-native environments. Simpler Maintenance: Minimized custom development and technical debt. As an SAP Consultant, start upskilling with modern APIs and advise your future customers to adopt clean core integration technologies.