For leftliberals, the winning pitch need not change: emphasise harm to the world's poorest and most vulnerable, as well as protecting the global ecosystem.

Its explanation also referred to 'a first-of-its-kind approach to enable seamless collaboration across a global ecosystem of 1,500 technologists, strategists and creatives'.

For reefs, warming waters and acidification are closing in like a pair of jaws that threaten to make them the first global ecosystem to disappear.

Emphasis may have moved from local ecosystems to the global ecosystem.

The second major direction involves the nature of the global ecosystem....