How does nature fit into the tipping points framework? With so much focus on the climate in debates, nature can be forgotten.

In the second part of our series from the Global Tipping Points 2026 Conference at Sunway University in Malaysia, Tamara Singh, of The Nature Conservancy, joins us to talk about how business and nature fit together, where she has seen good practice in her work across many countries, and how finance fits into this dynamic.

We discuss whether business is always the bad guy when it comes to tackling planetary challenges, what it can learn from nature, and how it can be valued on the balance sheet.

This episode was produced in conjunction with the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, hosts of the conference.

What are the global tipping points? What are positive tipping points? How can the world work together to stop one and produce the other?

We are at the Global Tipping Points Conference 2026 at Sunway University in Malaysia to investigate these questions and many more.

In this introduction to a special mini-series produced in conjunction with conference hosts the Centre for Planetary Health at Sunway University, we look at the key issues being discussed by figures from government, academia, business, NGOs and many other groups and organisations.

We will explain the key concepts, outline our initial impressions from the opening sessions, and look ahead to the future.

Over the course of this series, we will speak to figures from across the conference on a wide range of topics. Keep an eye on the Transforming Tomorrow feed as episodes will land while the event is ongoing.

As we wrap up season three of Transforming Tomorrow, we consider how the vast range of subjects out guests have brought into the studio are and attempt to tie these topics together.

This brings us to issues of politics and the law, Artificial Intelligence, and the experiences of businesspeople and researchers that ties them to their subjects.

Join us on a journey that takes us from courtrooms to boardrooms, government chambers to war zones, cotton fields to refugee camps, and it is amazing to see how things fit with each other, and how quickly change can come.

We discuss the optimism and determination of our guests to make a difference, how personal experiences drive them, and how the compassion they have directed their work.

We see how ideas and ideals have come together, think about what the next year might bring, and wonder some more about the next generation and rethinking how things work.

Plus, can Jan pick out the ringer from a list of topics to have been discussed on the show over the last 12 months – the answer is not badgers, but is it the Moomins, Kevin Bacon, Logan’s Run or shampoo?

And, to show us that things really are always changing, since recording this episode, Donald Trump has brought up his desire to control Greenland once again! We suspect we will be mentioning his name again in seasons to come.