"To achieve climate justice, biodiversity, and health equity goals, most societies need rapid change. From equitable policies and low-carbon infrastructure to values like collaboration and fairness, we need deep shifts, and we need them soon. ...Facilitating the flow of ideas back and forth across national borders is one way to accelerate change.

"Crossing other types of borders can accelerate change too.

"Borders between issue areas get in the way of solutions. Take the way that energy and health are often treated as separate issues. They are typically studied by different researchers, and policy choices on energy and health are usually made in isolation from each other. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the health systems’ savings from phasing out fossil fuels would more than offset the costs of the transition to clean energy. Yet, in a 2021 survey, WHO found that only 1 in 5 countries bring health considerations into climate and energy policy."

..."If departments, jurisdictions, and disciplines are just ideas, then there is nothing immovable about them. We can make these borders more permeable and conduct partnerships across them. We can even redraw them to include more of what matters in a single project or investment. That’s the premise of multisolving—using one investment of time or effort to steer toward several goals at once." - Elizabeth R. Sawin, Kelsi Eccles, Susanne Moser & Tina A. Smith 

Article: Multisolving: Making Systems Whole, Healthy, and Sustainable