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Amit Sharma shared thisPowerful reminder. Many of our sustainability frameworks still assume humans sit above nature - as managers, owners, optimisers. But older knowledge systems flip that lens: we are the newest arrivals, learning from ecosystems that have refined balance over millennia. When forests, rivers and fungi are seen as elders rather than resources, the conversation shifts - from control to stewardship, from extraction to reciprocity. Responsibility replaces dominance. If we truly want durable climate, biodiversity and social outcomes, maturing into a “right relationship” with nature isn’t philosophical - it’s foundational.Amit Sharma shared thisIn the way I’ve been taught, human beings are not the most evolved species here in Earth, we are the youngest. In many original knowledge systems, humans are the last of creation, the apprentices rather than the pinnacle. Forests, rivers, fungi, and animals are our elders, having learned how to live in balance long before we arrived. Plus, we’re dependent on them to live, they’re not dependent on us. This deeply rooted, still widely prevalent anthropocentric human exceptionalism teaches us dominance, whilst ancestry teaches us responsibility. Part of our Original Living Responsibilities as humans is to mature into right relationship with her, and the rest will follow.
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Amit Sharma shared thisClimate Risk Index 2026: The New Normal Is Here The latest Climate Risk Index 2026 by Germanwatch e.V. delivers a stark message: climate extremes are no longer exceptional - they are systemic, persistent, and deeply unequal. Between 1995–2024 • 832,000+ lives lost • USD 4.5 trillion in economic losses • 9,700+ extreme weather events Most affected (1995–2024): Dominica, Myanmar, Honduras Most affected in 2024: St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Grenada, Chad Floods, storms, heat waves, and droughts dominate both human and economic losses. Heat waves and storms alone account for two-thirds of global fatalities, while storms drive nearly 60% of total economic damage. A clear injustice emerges: Those least responsible for climate change - predominantly Global South and low-income countries - are suffering the most. Coping capacity, not exposure alone, determines outcomes. Science is unequivocal: In 2024, human-induced climate change added ~41 dangerous heat days for billions of people, intensifying storms, floods, and wildfires beyond what El Niño alone could explain. The takeaway for policymakers and investors alike: Adaptation, loss & damage finance, and emissions cuts are no longer optional. With courts reaffirming states’ legal duties on climate action, delay now equals liability later. The Climate Risk Index is not just a ranking - it’s a warning signal. The question is no longer if we act, but how fast and how fairly we do so. #ClimateRisk #ClimateChange #Adaptation #LossAndDamage #ClimateFinance #GlobalSouth #Resilience
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Amit Sharma shared thisIn the competition between fiction and truth, fiction usually wins because the truth is too painful and too complicated. https://lnkd.in/gvw2QZFMWhy fiction wins and truth loses | Yuval Noah HarariWhy fiction wins and truth loses | Yuval Noah Harari
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Amit Sharma shared thisMan vs Machine - will the bots take over us? Back in 2017, Oriel Morrison and Akiko Fujita from CNBC asked me this question at their studio. If I could time travel, I’d go back and give a very different answer today. In his recent interview, Eric Schmidt (Former Google CEO) talks about the possibility of AI agents developing their own language or communication protocols in future AI systems. This idea comes up in discussions about advanced AI agents working together autonomously: if multiple AI agents interact and optimise collaboratively, they might develop communication patterns that are not immediately understandable to humans. When that happens, Schmidt has warned that we would need to intervene or “pull the plug” because we may no longer understand what the agents are doing or why. This was also very well articulated by Mo Gawdat in another podcast where he explains that intelligence gaps matter more than absolute intelligence. He says that most average people already struggle to fully understand Albert Einstein’s thinking, not because Einstein was magical, but because his IQ was significantly higher than the average human’s. That gap alone makes comprehension difficult. He then extends this idea to AI, pointing out that even today, AI systems already operate at an “IQ equivalent” far beyond Einstein’s. As a result, we are entering a world where machines think in ways that humans will increasingly be unable to understand or follow. He goes on to warn that this gap will not grow linearly but exponentially. While the difference between an average human and Einstein was meaningful, the difference between humans and future AI will be vast - so large that human reasoning, oversight, and intuition may simply not scale to keep up. His core concern is that humanity may lose the ability to truly understand, predict, or control the decision-making of entities that are orders of magnitude more intelligent than us. For me the far bigger question is “will we have the decision-making control by then to pull the plug?”
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Amit Sharma shared thisWas 2025 the year sustainability finally grew up? I stepped away from mainstream corporate sustainability not because the mission stopped mattering, but because too much of the work had drifted into safe, incremental change. Impact became something you document, not something you build. Progress was measured in disclosures, not in altered business models. What broke in 2025 wasn’t sustainability itself - it was the illusion that ticking boxes and publishing reports counted as transformation. For years, “good performance” was defined by fluency in frameworks, polished narratives, and the ability to manage optics. Entire industries learned how to optimise perception without meaningfully changing how value was created or risk was managed. As long as the story was attractive and capital was cheap, the system held. Then the mood shifted. When sustainability stopped being fashionable, scrutiny returned. Budgets tightened. Boards asked harder questions. And suddenly, if an initiative didn’t protect margins, assets, or supply continuity, it struggled to survive. That retreat exposed an uncomfortable truth: if the old model was truly strengthening businesses, it wouldn’t have unraveled so quickly. But here’s the part that didn’t change - the real world. Weather volatility, resource constraints, and physical risk didn’t disappear just because the narrative did. Operational fragility is still very real, and companies are already paying for it through disrupted logistics, volatile input costs, stressed infrastructure, and rising insurance premiums. Without a shiny scorecard to hide behind, leadership is forced to confront the only question that matters: are we building a business that still works a decade from now? This is where sustainability stops being a communications function and becomes a strategy problem. Not “How do we rank?” But “How do we redesign?” How do you reduce exposure instead of explaining it? How do you harden systems rather than offset risk? How do you secure energy, materials, and production in a world that’s less predictable and more expensive? These are uncomfortable, capital-intensive, and deeply operational questions. Which is exactly why they matter. So if 2025 felt like a setback for sustainability, I’d argue the opposite. The noise faded. The shortcuts stopped working. And what’s left is the real job: making businesses durable in a world that no longer rewards pretending. That’s not a collapse. That’s a reset. When the budgets got tight, the first thing cut wasn’t emissions - it was the narrative. If your sustainability strategy collapses when the storytelling stops, it was never a strategy. It was just branding.
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Amit Sharma shared thisWe are living in two parallel energy worlds - and pretending they’re not connected. On one side is the artificial world of AI. Data centres. Compute clusters. Always-on intelligence. An ecosystem that is relentlessly hungry for energy - power, really. Every model, every query, every “efficiency gain” quietly pushes global electricity demand higher. On the other side is the real world. Where more than 600 million people in Africa still live without access to electricity - let alone clean, reliable energy. Clinics without power. Students studying by candlelight. Businesses that never start because the switch is never on. The Dar es Salaam Energy Declaration once again put this divide in plain sight. Not a lack of ambition. Not a lack of policy statements. But a widening gap between where energy is flowing and where it is desperately needed. Here’s the uncomfortable question we rarely ask: 👉 What kind of progress are we optimising for? As we lean harder into AI, the global energy gap doesn’t shrink - it risks getting wider. Capital, infrastructure, grids, and political attention are increasingly pulled toward powering machines, not people. This is not an argument against AI. It’s an argument against ignoring trade-offs. If the future is electric - and it is - then access to energy is not a “development issue.” It is the defining equity issue of our time. A world where intelligence scales infinitely, while basic electricity remains a privilege, is not progress. It’s a warning. The energy transition cannot just be clean. It must be fair. #energytransition #energyequity #energygap #fairenergytransition
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Amit Sharma shared thisThe Stupidity of Modern Valuation: Why We Worship Speculation While Ignoring Survival We live in an age where betting on the future is worth more than saving it. A company that allows people to speculate on whether an event will happen - an election outcome, a rate hike, a heatwave - can raise $1 billion and reach an $11 billion valuation in the blink of an eye. Meanwhile, companies working tirelessly to restore ecosystems, decarbonise industries, clean water, regenerate soil, or build climate resilience struggle to raise a fraction of that capital. And somehow, we call this progress. Prediction markets like ‘Kalshi’ are being celebrated as revolutionary: sleek interfaces, institutional backing, billions in trading volume, glossy headlines about becoming “the infrastructure of the future.” But let’s be honest about what this really is - a sophisticated way to financialise uncertainty and turn the world’s problems into tradable entertainment. We’ve transformed democracy, weather, conflict and climate into a casino. Millions of people now participate not in solving problems, but in profiting off outcomes. We are no longer observers of reality; we are bettors on it. Whether temperatures will rise. Whether a storm will make landfall. Whether a political system collapses. This is not collective intelligence - it is collective detachment disguised as sophistication. The most disturbing part isn’t that such companies exist. It’s that we value them more than solutions. A startup developing carbon capture at scale? “Too risky.” A company restoring mangroves, protecting coastlines, absorbing CO₂, and supporting livelihoods? “Not scalable enough.” A circular economy platform reducing waste by 40%? “Margins unclear.” But an app that lets people bet on whether the world will burn? “Shut up and take my money.” This isn’t innovation - it’s intellectual laziness wrapped in fintech branding. We are optimising capital for speed, not impact. For optionality, not outcomes. For speculation, not survival. And the investors who pride themselves on “backing the future” are usually doing the opposite - reinforcing the present incentives that got us here: extract, bet, exit. If intelligence were truly driving markets, then climate adaptation, food security, water systems, energy transition, biodiversity restoration and carbon removal would be the most overfunded sectors. These are not side projects. These are the actual foundations of civilisation. But solving real-world problems is slow. It’s complex. It’s political. It requires patience, systems thinking, collaboration, and a time horizon longer than a venture fund’s lifespan. History will not remember the most highly valued companies of this decade. It will remember the ones that created breathable air, drinkable water, stable climates, and livable cities. And future generations won’t ask how accurate our predictions were. They will ask why, when we had a choice, we chose to bet instead of build.
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Amit Sharma reposted thisAmit Sharma reposted thisHow you ever heard about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch? 🌊 (I didn't till now) According to the The Ocean Cleanup: - The patch now covers 1.6 million km² (that’s 3× the size of France) - It contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, around 100,000 tonnes - Most of its mass (75–86%) comes from fishing gear: nets, ropes, and equipment drifting for years at sea And here’s the real issue: more plastic enters the patch than leaves it. It’s accumulating faster than nature can break it down. Marine life is paying the price, from fish to turtles to seabirds. And microplastics are eventually finding their way back to us. This isn’t an “island of trash.” It’s a mirror of how our systems works, or doesn't... We can do better than this by: ✔ Rethinking materials and packaging ✔ Improving traceability and responsibility in the fishing industry ✔ Cutting plastic at the source, not just clean it up downstream ✔ Pushing for real circularity, not short-term fixes Raising awareness is step one, as I hope this video will. Changing design, policy, and business models is step two. The ocean remembers everything we throw away. Let’s make sure future generations don’t inherit our waste. 👉 Follow Nina Benoit for more sustainability news and updates Credits to Felix Hawkings for this video! #Sustainability #ESG #Plastic
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Amit Sharma shared thisOver the past few days, I spent time going through the latest insights from COP30 in Belém, and I must say - this COP feels different. The science is sharper, the stakes are higher, and the message across the board is clear: we’re out of time for abstract ideas; this is the decade of implementation. A few reflections that really stood out for me: Implementation over promises With global temperatures already touching 1.55°C, the tone at COP30 has shifted decisively toward action. Countries are being pushed harder than ever to demonstrate how they will deliver. The “Big Four” debates These negotiation tracks will shape climate cooperation for years: • The urgent push for real climate finance for developing countries • The growing inclusion of carbon management in national climate plans • The need for transparent MRV systems that can actually support CCS and CDR • And rising tensions around trade measures like CBAM, which are already influencing industrial decarbonisation choices A shift toward green industrialisation The Belém Declaration - endorsed by 35 countries - is a strong signal of global interest in modernising industry and accelerating tech deployment. Even when CCS isn’t explicitly mentioned, many signatories are already moving in that direction. CDR is gaining momentum I found it encouraging to see how many startups, policymakers, and industry groups are now engaging seriously on durable removals. CDR and CCS each have their own space, but together they’re becoming central to realistic net-zero pathways. Collaboration remains essential Despite political tension, protests, and the notable absence of the US delegation, COP30 reinforced something important: progress still happens when nations, industries, and communities show up and engage. For me, the biggest takeaway is this: Carbon management - both CCS and CDR - is rapidly shifting from a “future option” to an essential pillar of global climate action and industrial competitiveness. And the decisions made at COP30 will directly shape the enabling environment we all depend on. #COP30 #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #CCS #CDR #Decarbonisation #NetZero #ClimateFinance #GreenIndustrialisation #EnergyTransition #Sustainability #ParisAgreement
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Amit Sharma liked thisAmit Sharma liked thisFor everyone fascinated by tech: Bank of America just launched a new podcast called Breakthrough Technology Dialogues, and it’s packed with big ideas and bold conversations. Expertly moderated by James Harding, Editor in Chief of The Observer, each episode runs 19:56 – a nod to the origin of the term “byte” in 1956. The podcast features dynamic conversations with innovators and thought leaders about breakthroughs in AI, energy sources, medical technology and more. The first episode kicks off with investor and entrepreneur Hermann Hauser who dives into the latest breakthroughs in computing technology and what they mean for the future. Listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://bit.ly/4lpKOL3
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Amit Sharma liked thisAnother big milestone in Tazapay's remarkable journeyAmit Sharma liked thisTazapay has raised $36M in total Series B funding. Circle led the extension, with CMT Digital and Coinbase joining as new investors alongside existing backers Peak XV Partners, GMO , and January Capital. Tazapay is building next-generation payment infrastructure for businesses operating across emerging markets. Modern digital settlement technology. Per-transaction funding. No legacy banking constraints. Revenues have doubled for three consecutive years. Over 1,000 enterprises and fintechs across 30 countries now run on Tazapay. Licenced and regulated across Singapore, Canada, Australia, and the United States, with active applications in the UAE, EU, and Hong Kong. None of this happens without the Tazapay team. Thank you for building something that matters, every single day. Grateful to our customers, partners, and investors for the continued trust and support. A lot more to build from here. Read the full announcement here: https://lnkd.in/eG6bzsft Disclaimer: Stablecoin-related services are provided exclusively by Tazapay Canada Corp, a FINTRAC-registered Money Services Business. Tazapay Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) does not provide Digital Payment Token services under the Payment Services Act 2019. #Tazapay #SeriesB #CrossBorderPayments #PaymentInfrastructure #Fintech
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Amit Sharma reacted on thisI had the honour of being on a panel for International Women's Day alongside some truly remarkable women — and left the room thinking more than I spoke. The theme was 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲: 𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝘁 𝗔𝗹𝗹. The goal was never to "have it all" at the same time. It was always about having what matters — on your own terms. 𝗦𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲. Career and caregiving don't have to compete — but they do need scheduling. Your priorities will shift across life stages, and that's not a detour. That's the journey. 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. And stop explaining your caregiving. You don't owe the workplace a justification for being fully human. 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. Sponsors who advocate for you in rooms you're not in matter far more than connections who just like your posts. 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲. Culture isn't a perk. For women navigating caregiving and career, it's the foundation everything else is built on. To the organisers, my fellow panelists, and every woman in that audience — thank you for the conversation. These are the ones that matter. #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInTech #WomenInProduct #CareerAdvice #Leadership #HavingItAllAmit Sharma reacted on thisThis International Women's Day, we celebrated the diverse journeys of women and explored themes of careers, caregiving, and personal choice at our Gurgaon and Bengaluru offices. Our session, “Careers, Caregiving and Choice: Rethinking ‘Having It All,’” encouraged reflection on redefining success on one's own terms. Our panelists — Rigya Nayar, Director of Digital Product at Sun Life, Nikita Gulati, CPA, Partner at Grant Thornton Bharat LLP, and Shweta Sawhney, Founder and CEO of Altre Digital, joined by Aditi Shukla, India & Shared Services Head, ESS, shared insights on evolving definitions of “having it all,” overcoming challenges, and fostering workplace environments that support women’s choices. It was a fantastic opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate the achievements and aspirations of women. 🙌
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Amit Sharma liked thisI am looking forward to host this years first Frankfurt Service Design Meet up. We have two accomplished speakers in Birgit Mager and Daniel Hoffmann, and 50 wonderful people from design and innovation field joining us. We might be able to accommodate just a few more - please sign up if you are interested. Event name: Service Design Frankfurt Rhein Main Meetup Date & Timing: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026, 6 PM - 9 PM Venue: Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar Address: De-Saint-Exupéry-Straße 8, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Registration on Luma:https: https://lnkd.in/g2xnRAbz Here are some pictures that will give you a sense of the venue graciously provide by Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar. A big thanks!Amit Sharma liked thisA PEEK INTO OUR ICONIC VENUE - Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar Here is a preview of our venue for our Service Design Frankfurt Rhein Main Meet up on Thursday, 19 Feb, 6-9 PM (in 3 days) Here are some photos from our reccee visit and event preparation. REGISTER - WE HAVE A VERY FEW SEATS LEFT Service Design Frankfurt Rhein Main Meetup Date & Timing: Thursday, 19 Feb 2026, 6 PM - 9 PM Venue: Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar Address: De-Saint-Exupéry-Straße 8, 60549 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Registration on Luma:https: https://lnkd.in/g2xnRAbz We will mingle informally, and listen to two great speakers: Prof. Birgit Mager Professor, Service Design, Köln International School of Design [KISD], Founder & President, Service Design Network Daniel Hoffmann Lead Service Designer, Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar
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Amit Sharma liked thisIt was great fun to organise and host the first service design meet up of 2026 in Frankfurt. Great speakers, wonderful people, lively evening, old friends and new connections and great bonding! No new place seems famliar when you find your tribe! Looks like I have found my tribe in Frankfurt :) A big thanks to Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar for opening your doors to host the event, and to Service Design Network for your support. To all the folks who joined the evening braving heavy snow and strike of local public transport system. Your joining the evening was all the more special. And a HUGE "Thank You" to speakers Prof Birgit Mager, Daniel Hoffmann (who also co-hosted the event alongside me), and Adam StJohn Lawrence - to all three - for agreeing to speak at the event, traveling distance from other cities to be here for the evening, and bringing your magic along to inspire and energise people. And the event wouldn’t have run this smooth without Ana Maria Garcia Garcia and her positive energy and ‘effortless’ support through out the evening. Thank you Ana! Service Design Frankfurt Rhein Main Again, thanks to Miikka Paakkinen who set the ball rollingAmit Sharma liked this“I think the best after work event I participated in Frankfurt in the last couple of years” “The speaker line up was really epic” . . .This captures the essence of our evening. We shared. We learnt. We had fun. Prof Birgit Mager came in from Köln, Daniel Hoffmann braved his way through snow to the venue, and Adam StJohn Lawrence drove four hours from Nuremberg in midst of snow and traffic snarls. Kudos, and a big thank you to our three speakers. Prof Birgit Mager's talk was extremely rich, and she shared about evolution and impact of service design through some of the great work she has done to demonstrate the value of Service design. She also shared about the Service Design Awards, and upcoming annual Global Service Design Conference https://lnkd.in/g26gkPup Daniel Hoffmann shared about Lufthansa's journey in adopting service design and journey management. His sharing was rich in details and gave us all a peek into how a large organisation Lufthansa adopts design for transformation at scale. Adam StJohn Lawrence was magic! as always. In his inimitable style he used techniques of embodied and experiential learning to make us internalise the ideas of "Freedom" and "Structure", and how designers can communicate the value and impact of service design in "business language" that business people are familiar with and understand better. Also, thank you Nav Qirti for moderating the evening. It was heartening to see that people have huge interest in building this community in Frankfurt Rhein Main region - we are filling a big gap to bring design, innovation and futures people from across industries and disciplines in the Frankfurt Rhein Main region on one platform. More to come. Thank you to our venue host Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar and event partners School of MetaSkills and Service Design Network Ours was a partner event of The Service Design Global Conference 2026 (SDGC26) takes place 28-30 October in Frankfurt RheinMain region - onsite and online. https://lnkd.in/g26gkPup - Don't miss to book a spot for yourself.
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Amit Sharma reacted on thisAmit Sharma reacted on this💚 A love letter to nature carbon removals 💚 🌟 For too long, I have ignored you. Yet there you are: reliably removing 2 gigatons of CO2 year on year, while providing countless co-benefits to forests, animals, farmers, and us humans. 💪 Yes, we need to figure out how to compensate our emissions for the long-term. But this will take us years, yeah decades to scale up. In the meantime, you can help us lower warming at this crucial moment in time. ✅ I don’t need to tell you how to do your job: it comes natural to you. You have been doing it for millions of years. And - given the right resources - you are ready to do even more anytime. 🤝 It is time to stop the infighting and to start accepting durable removals for what they are: your best friend. Together, you are unstoppable and can help preserve this beautiful planet for all of us. 🤗 So today, I want to promise to you that I will give you the attention and love you deserve. 🌍 Let’s unleash your full potential on the way to net-zero.
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