Bringing back the life on land and in the rivers and oceans.
The BRP’s goal is to restore this lost life and in so doing remove 550 billion tonnes of excess carbon out of the atmosphere and oceans—bringing CO₂ levels back closer to pre-industrial times. Large-scale ecosystem restoration projects have already shown success in reviving biodiversity and local climates. With the right resources and investment, restoring vast ecosystems will increase productivity and drive global economic growth.
The technical expertise to enable these large-scale restoration projects exists, as do hundreds of supporting technologies. Precision fermentation, aeroponics and aquaponics enable us to grow food on a fraction of the space that traditional farming uses, freeing up vast areas of land for rewilding.
Projects like ocean fertilisation by buoyant flakes can restore essential nutrients to the oceans and so stimulate phytoplankton growth, primary productivity that will bring back oceanic fish stocks and enable the recovery of the natural nutrient cycling that whales and other marine mammals can provide when their numbers have recovered.
On land we know how to restore soils bringing back the essential microbial life that will store atmospheric carbon and promote plant growth, greatly increasing the productivity and value of that land.
These projects will all require energy, and it all has to be non-polluting. In fact, as we move billions of people out of poverty it will be necessary to generate considerably more energy than we do now, but again, the technology is available to us: wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, nuclear and in the not-too-distant future fusion. Couple this with the development of advanced energy storage and global energy transmission grids, we will be able to take full advantage of the advances in artificial intelligence and robotics’ development.
