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Over 3.8 billion years, evolution has yielded one of the most advanced, untapped, publicly available research and development labs on the planet. Having discarded more than 99% of species in the process, the remaining 1% provide innovative blueprints, recipes and well-adapted best practices to design, build and create.

It’s not wishful thinking to see the built environment as part of nature. Through biomimicry, the built environment can help recover ecosystem functions and services, eventually transforming humanity’s relationship with the rest of nature into one that’s reciprocal and beneficial.

In our latest paper, written in collaboration with Biomimicry 3.8, we invite you to open your mind and heart to the big picture, expand your thinking and discover how we can transform the ever-expanding built environment from a threat to climate stability and biodiversity to a showcase for a regenerative world.

While pledges are important, when it comes to reversing climate change and nature loss, it’s action that matters — and our actions currently fall woefully short.

Governments and businesses are committing to ambitious targets to address the growing global challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss on an unprecedented scale. Despite some impressive statistics however, the current rate of action is falling woefully short of what it needs to deliver. On our current trajectory, 2030 global greenhouse gas emissions will be 55% higher than the targets set to keep warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.[1]

As both a key contributor to climate change and a sector significantly impacted by a changing climate, the built environment presents an enormous opportunity for positive impact — on nature and for communities.

Over the period of 3.8 billion years, nature has found the most effective and efficient solutions to the vast majority of challenges we face.

Biomimicry is a design and innovation approach that learns from nature’s genius and applies its blueprints, strategies and best practices to improve and invent solutions that create the conditions conducive for all Life to thrive.

When applied to the built environment, biomimicry produces design solutions that mirror the life-supporting benefits, also known as ecosystem services, created by intact habitats. This results in facilities that positively contribute to the ecosystems in which they operate, as measured by the ecosystem services they produce, generating social and environmental benefits such as improved air and water quality, increased carbon sequestration and biodiversity. The aspirational goal is for buildings to function like local intact ecosystems, producing the same benefits as the wildlands next door.

The Positive Performance Methodology is an assessment and innovation methodology that embraces biomimicry as a pathway to more sustainable and regenerative design.

Developed by Biomimicry 3.8, the methodology presumes buildings — and whole cities for that matter — can and must function like nature. Using local intact ecosystems as a source of inspiration and the benchmark against which future performance is measured, it guides organizations and design teams to develop place-based, regenerative design solutions that deliver a wide range of performance outcomes for ecosystems, communities and businesses.

Achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and going beyond that—reaching a positive future—isn’t just an aspirational goal. It’s an imperative. Realizing it will require a fundamental shift in the way we think about, design and engineer the built environment.

Ecological balance and human progress are not mutually exclusive. They are intrinsically interconnected, and the design philosophies and innovations we choose to adopt today will define our future legacy.

As an approach and innovation pathway that delivers inherently regenerative solutions, biomimicry can help us create a future where the built environment is a catalyst for ecological regeneration, well-being and human advancement, setting new benchmarks for generations to come.