Huge change in thinking and leadership is needed for our planet to get anywhere close to achieving Net Zero as rapidly as required. Are leaders getting the message and taking action at last? Yes. Here Paul Polman describes how at last the mountain of scepticism, caution and resistance is shifting noticeably in the direction needed.
The rapidly encroaching Climate Emergency threatens our survival on this planet. Together we face “nothing less than the collapse of the living world”.
Johan Rockström has been speaking with Nik Gowing in Nature’s Newsroom at COP-26 in Glasgow on 6th November, the halfway point of COP-26. He says that “the direction of travel is not debated anymore” at COP 26. “It’s rather the pace of change” that is the question being discussed. He hopes that urgent message from science are at the forefront of leaders’ thinking at COP as a “constructive stress factor”.
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Nik chaired Lombard Odier’s event on ‘Investing in Nature at Scale’ at COP26 in Glasgow 2021. It was attended by HRH The Prince of Wales.
Nik helped design and deliver Italian energy company Enel's Grid Futurability ® for a Net-Zero World event in Milan. A hybrid session with a large virtual audience globally, it focused on the transformation of traditional distribution networks into Smart Grids.
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Huge change in thinking & #leadership needed to get close to achieving #NetZero. @PaulPolman describes how at last the mountain of scepticism, caution and resistance is shifting noticeably in the direction needed.https://t.co/EyYvu1Q9m2
— Think Unthinkable (@Think_Unthink) January 5, 2022
My visit to #Chernobyl disaster inspired by Sir David Attenborough’s @netflix film A Life On Our Planet @DavidALifeFilm. An example of how our planet will bite back if we continue to abuse nature @Think_Unthink #ThinkTheUnthinkable #Leadership https://t.co/O2v0neYnJn
— Nik Gowing (@NikGowing) December 3, 2021
Thank you to @NikGowing @Think_Unthink for facilitating @CAFACollective post #COP26 & what outcomes mean for #associations panel with Pete Betts CBE @RenewableUK @FDFCorpAffairs @MikeSpicer_PD Sophie House. Catch up here
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