Marc Buckley

Ecological Economist, Regenerative Futurist, and Solarpunk

United Nations Advisor, Consultant, & Advocate

United Nations Climate Change Global Innovation Hub

World Economic Forum Expert Network

ESG Expert, Advisor & Consultant

International Speaker

Advocate for the SDG’s

Global Food Systems Reformist

Editor-At-Large Innovators Magazine

Faculty, Adjunct & University Lecturer

Systems Thinker & Dynamic Modeler

Serial & Social Entrepreneur

Host Inside Ideas Podcast

International Speaker

Author

 

• Author of multiple books and a prominent Regenerative Futurist, helping organizations worldwide adapt to the future.
• Member of the EU ESG Taxonomy PSF Commission, where he contributes expertise in ESG matters and has spoken about it in over 120 events across 31 countries.
• Board Member of the Dubai Future Foundation and part of the organizing team for the Friend of the Future Forum.
• Chair of the UNFCCC Innovation Hub High-Level Working Group and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Impact Circle on Artificial Intelligence (AI).
• Engagement in United Nations groups, including the Climate Change Secretariat UNFCCC, and participation in 5 high-level expert groups for the World Economic Forum.
• Contribution to the Liveability Thesis for the Sustainable City Neom and involvement in the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers, focusing on Resilient Development Goals.
• Collaboration with organizations like the Ecosystem Restoration Camps, Gaia Trust Global Eco-village Network, reState Foundation, The World Academy of Arts and Science, and UN Ambassador for UN HS4A.
• Expertise in Regenerative Agriculture and sustainable built environments, working on ecological civilization frameworks.
• Active participation in events leading up to the 2024 Summit of the Future for the United Nations, bridging future goals with climate conferences like COP28.

Marc Buckley

 

Marc Buckley is a highly influential figure in the field of climate activism, sustainability, and global change. His extensive involvement in various organizations and initiatives demonstrates his commitment to addressing pressing global challenges and finding innovative solutions.

Marc takes a systems view of life, addressing complex systems to tackle global challenges. His extensive background in Ecological Economics, Regenerative Futurism, and Systems Science, along with his early training by Al Gore as a Climate Speaker, shapes his mission to combat climate change and work towards Regenerative Desirable Futures. He advocates for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is involved in various capacities, such as a UN Advisor, Resilient Futurist, and member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network. Marc’s overarching goal is to empower global citizens to lead adaptive, sustainable lives within planetary boundaries, ultimately transitioning from the Anthropocene to the Symbiocene.

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All requests for speaking and events please plan on compensating through carbon offsetting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Innovator

Advocate for the SDG's

The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) are a Global Vision for Humanity: signed by 175 Heads of State these 17 goals were adopted for the 2030 Agenda – but, making them real is everyone’s responsibility. The UN SDG’s are the Worlds first Ever Global Moonshot a People, Planet, Prosperity, and Peace Insurance plan to keep us below 1.5° of Warming but also to create a Sustainable Infrastructure and Desirable Futures by 2030. A nobel dream and vision for humanity and our Earth everyone can agree upon.

The UN SDG Advocates are Ambassadors and influencers who promote the goals.

Let Marc, as an Advocate for the SDG’s, help to explain how they are a wonderful roadmap to a beautiful future that we can all achieve.

Since 2015 Marc has spoken all over the world on the SDG’s to help everybody to understand what is behind them, the meaning and the wonderful guide they are to remaine below 1.5° of warming COP21 Paris Agreement by 2030.

Marc created the Resilient SDG Manifesto which is a beautiful way to envision what desirable futures can look like in 2030 when we have achieved the goals. It is important to create a vision of the desirable futures so we can create, innovate, engineer, and manifest them by 2030. There is physiological importance to them, systemic ecological within planetary boundaries understanding to them as well as monetary investment needed for sustainable infrastructure, which is not clear to see and understand at first glance. Let me help you apply them into your life and business models so that we all can achieve resilient desirable futures together.

The UN SDG’s are Open Source and part of Project Everyone for Everyone.

Editor-at-large & Author

OnePoint5 Media

We provide impactful content, digital publications, campaigns, events, and strategic consultancy support for ecosystems and industries advancing people and planet-saving solutions.

Our expertise lies in the field of innovation and global transformational change.

Faculty

Berlin School of Sustainable Futures
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network Member University UN SDSN
Master studies for a new generation of executives.
The BSSF is the first university in Europe dedicated to training a new generation of people who want to tackle the pressing challenges of our time. With a focus on sustainable development, transcultural communication and creative leadership, it offers students, within the scope of Master’s programs, new perspectives for solving problems in the digital age.

An overview of our 4 Master Degree Programs:

  • Environmental Management and Sustainability
  • Culture and Transformation
  • Digital Communication
  • Media Innovation Management

Impact Innovators

Editor-at-large with Innovators Magazine
Co-Host of video podcast: Talks at Innovators Magazine
Providing insight, analysis and opinion on cross-sector innovations and actions impacting the Global Goals and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)

Innovators Magazine Q & A with Marc
What does ‘Impact Innovation’ mean to you?
Impact innovations disrupt, help or solve more than a million people’s problem or address a Global Grand Challenge through meaningful impact to society and markets. It means bringing exponential impact innovations to solve people and planetary problems in exponential times.

BOMA Global Brain Trust Faculty

Boma’s agenda is designed and calibrated in real-time by our local and global Brain Trusts. Their recommendations guide our work, and their knowledge and ethical considerations are used to maximize the impact of our meetings and experiences. We don’t offer a one-size-fits-all solution. We bring expertise from all over the world and offer it in service of local expertise and contextual wisdom. We’re heading into a future with no simple answers. Technology, for example, has brought about extraordinary progress, but it has also created unprecedented challenges. We need to accept these complexities fearlessly if we want to make a better future for everyone.We’re not just thinking about how to increase ROI over the next two or three quarters. We’re thinking about how our wider society is changing over the next 5-10-20 years and beyond, and how we can develop and fit into new models and frameworks. Our events and programs welcome people from all sectors of society, and we work hard to make them accessible to a broad range of people. We don’t just deliver talkfests. All our events and programs are designed for participants to generate tangible results.

The Innovator

Ambassador FFI

Marc is Ambassador of Future Food Institute. Founded in 2014 in Bologna (Italy), the Future Food Institute is a non-profit trust and an entire ecosystem that makes food innovation a key tool to face the great challenges of the future, speaking to the world. Its soul is focused on education:  thanks to strategic global partnerships, has given life to the international Food Innovation Program, a 2nd level 12 months Master University Course, held at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Unimore) realized by FFI and the Institute for the Future of Palo Alto (California). 

Marc is also testimonial for the social campaign of Future Food Institute’s Food Innovation Global Mission: “Future Food for Climate Change #FF4CC”, supported by several partners:  UNIDO ITPO Italy (United Nations Agency for Industrial Development of Developing Countries); The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation; Climate Reality Project Europe; GFAR (Global Forum on Agricultural Research founded by FAO  and UE); Youth Climate Leaders Network; Walk for Water, India; just to name few.

Board of Directors

OURZ TRANSPARENT FOOD
FROM THE FIELD TO THE PLATE

For the digitized food industry, in which conscious consumers create a sustainable world with every purchase.

We choreograph digital technologies to create trustworthy transparency and a direct connection between all parties involved. We help the quality and sustainability-conscious producers, producers, and consumers to change our world for the better.

MaNaBu

SDG Advisory Board

MaNaBu provides an alternative educational experience, where the highest deference is paid to the way children want to learn – through means that are fun, engaging, and above all promote a culture of agency and action among young people. Topics or issues that have immediate or ongoing real-world consequences often produce anxiety and worry in children. MaNaBu aims to limit this anxiety wherever possible and help children understand that they can change the world they live in for the better. Teaching kids about serious issues doesn’t have to be serious!

In order to educate first we must entertain.

MaNaBu’s biggest strength lies in its simplicity – fun is a universal language every child understands! Children from all over the world can enjoy an entertaining and language-less animated series (which comes in a short and flexible format easily adaptable to many media platforms and accessible to all audiences), as well as interactive games and fun, catchy songs and illustration books. While driving curiosity and empathy in children, MaNaBu also helps parents to promptly explain concerning current events, allowing both children and parents to become ambassadors and educators with regards to global issues.

Serial & Social Entrepreneur

Through many trials and tribulations in building up companies as a hands-on maker, Marc has fine-tuned the skills and ability to see the unseen bigger picture – The Overview Effect or Cosmic Perspective.
He sees the world with optimism not only as it is today, but as it could be!
As an Innovator knowing the power of Exponential Growth and Quantum Leaps, he helps when crossing the chasm from Early Adopters to Early Majority on the diffusion of innovation curve of life.

World Systemic Forum

Speaker & Systemic Member

World Systemic Forum is the Annual Meeting of The System Change Foundation.
The System Change Foundation promotes sustainable development between the environment, economy, and society. An integral part of the foundation is the emerging global governance systems and the corresponding digital identities that demand global values. The foundation sees itself as a value-based enabler to rethink systems and global challenges holistically and free from higher national interests.

The System Change Foundation

Founding Systemic Change Member

The System Change Foundation promotes sustainable development between the environment, economy, and society. An integral part of the foundation is the emerging global governance systems and the corresponding digital identities that demand global values. The foundation sees itself as a value-based enabler to rethink systems and global challenges holistically and free from higher national interests.

Global Citizen Visionary

Marc is a Visionary for Global Citizen which mission is to build a movement of 100M action-taking Global Citizens to help achieve our vision of ending extreme poverty by 2030.Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty by 2030. On our platform, Global Citizens learn about the systemic causes of extreme poverty, take action on those issues, and earn rewards for their actions — as part of a global community committed to lasting change. Donate to support Global Citizen Donate now Our Impact Since 2011, millions of Global Citizens around the world have taken over 14 million actions to solve the world’s biggest challenges. That’s 14 million emails, tweets, petition signatures and phone calls targeting world leaders to end extreme poverty by 2030.

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Transformative Member

THEHUS Institute is a think tank to explore the transformation of the old economy into the digital modern era. We critically convoy decision-makers on their way to the necessary shift in perspective and world-view supporting the digital transformation towards an economically sustainable present and future.

Our focus lies on internationally proved and tested instruments of both scientific as well as radical explorative nature.

We consider ourselves being a platform both transdisciplinary as well as cross-generation for family offices, industry experts, and creatives who like to believe that there is tremendous potential in the digital modern era beyond fear and greed.

Change Food

Change Food Advisory Board

Connect – Collaborate – Transform
Our Mission
Change Food® works toward a healthier food system for people, animals & the planet.

Change Food connects and collaborates with others working toward healthy food change, amplifies their voices through events and programs, and transforms the work and goal of the food movement – to provide healthy, safe, delicious, fair food to all.

Our main program “Plant Eat Share” is building a global movement of communities planting and sharing healthy food for free.

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Board of Directors

SpaceconneX mission is to innovate the science, systems, tools, and technologies needed to build self-sustaining and prosperous human communities beyond the Earth — even as we apply those tools and knowledge to protect Earth. Solving the SDG 2030 agenda.
Positively influencing and improving 1 billion lives we serve by providing reliable resources and training while paving the way for access and accountability into an earth/space movement.

Climate & TEDx Speaker

Marc was trained by Al Gore as a Climate Speaker and was the Germany & Austria Country Coordinator for Vice President Gore’s Climate Reality Project.
Marc is a member the Climate Speakers Network: he has given numerous climate presentations, workshops, mentored hundreds of climate leaders and has spoken at numerous Environmental, Climate, UN, and International Organization events.
Marc attends 200+ events a year as an Activist, Speaker, Advocate for the SDG’s, Expert Network Member of the World Economic Forum, Global Food Reformist, Social Impact Innovator, Futurist, or Attendee: so if you want to have him at your event, please plan in advance.

The Innovator

Sustainable Futurist

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Abraham Lincoln
Marc was on the Cover story of “The Innovator Magazine”, published by Team Media.
The Innovation of Agriculture, Food, and Beverages are Marc’s specialty and main focus:
Complex sustainable creation that works in harmony for the betterment of People and Planet well beyond 2050.
Marc is one of the world’s leading voices on sustainability and the future of the planet.

UN Food Systems Summit

UN Food Systems Summit

The United Nations Food System Summit is a historical opportunity for everyone to have a voice and opportunity to contribute and act on Global Food Systems Reform For Everyone! Marc is striving to reform the agriculture, seafood, food, and beverage industries, by speaking globally on Climate Change and Food Reform, by consulting and showing entrepreneurs how to build and grow resilient, sustainable, and profitable businesses.

Founder of ALOHAS Regenerative Foundation, and the ALOHAS ECO-Center, a sustainable food, and beverage production company, that creates renewable energy and resources without fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste.

As an expert for sustainable development, he consults companies in their renewable transition with specialization in innovative cleantech systems, recycling, packaging, organics, raw and vegan products. Actions, business models, reporting towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Over the past 6 years more and more awareness and programs have emerged around the world for issues in our food systems. One such fabulous partnership is between EAT Lancet, and WBCSD : Food Reform for Sustainability and Health (FReSH) is designed to accelerate transformational change in global food systems, to reach healthy, enjoyable diets for all, that are produced responsibly within the safe operating spaces of our planetary boundaries. There are many more and through the UN Food Systems Summit and all the Action tracks and Dialogues you can find out about them all as well as those in your local communities.

Faculty

Futur/io is a new education and research institute focused on exponential technologies & desirable futures.
Now is the time to unlearn, to widen your lens and to hone your skills & tools in order to develop a framework for your strategic decisions for a better tomorrow.
We offer executive training, curate bespoke ideation experiences and conduct future scenario research – to support a new leadership in exponential times.
Our think tank is led by a tribe of leaders from science, industry, and government–our faculty is here to unlock your best future opportunities.
Our network of alumni & partners will set us apart.

World Economic Forum's Expert Network

The World Economic Forum’s Expert Network brings together close to 5,500 leading experts from academia, business, government, international organizations, civil society, the arts, and the media committed to improving the state of the world by helping to shape the global agenda. The network focuses on digital collaboration around key Insight Areas, covering economies, industries and global issues. Experts are encouraged to share their own research and analysis, organize around specific discussions or opportunities, and engage with existing Forum projects, events and research.

Sustainable Advisory Board

ALEPH Farms

We are shaping the future of food by producing cell-grown meat that resembles conventional meat.

Leaving a better legacy for future generations by establishing a responsible and sustainable food system.

 

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BOMA Grow USA Board

Boma Grow USA is a connection, collaboration, and event platform focused on the agri-sector, specifically on building a regenerative food and farming system that focuses on healthy whole food for everyone.

Aurora Foundation

Aurora Wizard
We are a non-profit Foundation that cultivates generations of young Europeans between 18 and 23 years. Our methodology pairs brilliant people with a well-resourced Ecosystem that enables them to succeed through concrete growth opportunities and to become the future Change Makers.  Aurora Fellows are empathetic, autonomous, and daring young women and men,  open to imagination and solid in knowledge,  driven by the vision of a Sustainable Future.

MAIZE IS GROWING IN H-FARM

Maize is a platform by H-FARM that explores the impact of technology on business, education and society. Explored through the eyes of entrepreneurial, tech and academically orientated minds, the goal of Maize is to explore the most complex elements of technology and create a conscious awareness of how it intersects with humanity. Dedicated to those who seek new ways to develop foresight, Maize aims to sow the seeds of innovation and debate. A staple, a cornerstone, a contribution to a world shaped by technology to provide you with food for thought.

WHY “maize”?
Just like our namesake, our platform is the harvest of the farm of the future and is the culmination of H-FARM’s widespread, international and well-informed network. Maize is set to (a)maize our global audience and become the basis of their intellectual diets.

Systems Thinker & Adjunct Professor

Systems Thinker, Dynamic Modeler, and Adjunct Professor for futur/io Institute & Green Brand Academy.
Our world is made up of complex systems that can be modeled and mimicked to create sustainability: exponential function, technologies, and desirable futures, such as executive training, bespoke ideation experiences and future scenario research, all to support a new leadership in exponential times.
All these are part of a think tank supported by a tribe of experts across Europe and the U.S. – in order to unlock best future opportunities.

Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition

Marc was a wrap up closing Keynote Speaker at the 9th International Forum on Food & Nutrition in Milan, Italy presenting “A New Era of Sustainability – 
Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN) the BCFN Foundation works on food and environmental sustainability in collaboration with various networks, foundations, scientific and research partners, all involved in the challenge of sustainability.

This collaborative network promotes the sharing of ideas and knowledge with the aim of designing global projects capable of guaranteeing a more sustainable food system for future generations that respects both people and the planet.

Main sponsors for the 9th International Forum on Food and Nutrition are BCFN, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN), The Econimist Intelligence Unit-Sustainable Food Index, and Thomson Reuters Foundation

German-Italian Chamber of Commerce Strategical Partner

Influencer, Expert Advisor and Keynote Speaker for German-Italian Chamber of Commerce.

Marc's talks worldwide

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The Anthropocene has brought us increasingly unpredictable Climate Conditions that show no signs of improving. We need Resilient Sustainable Infrastructures in place Worldwide not only to remain below 1.5 degrees of warming but to ensure a future that is enjoyable, beautiful, and livable for 9 Billion people in 2030. Global Food Reform is the number one Industry and Infrastructural change required to meet this grand challenge.

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