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”.
On the Climate crisis, “the fear is there. But I think there’s also a resolve to turn not to panic, but to turn that to very concrete actions this decade.” Nigel Topping, UN High level Champion for #Cop26 was speaking to TTU’s Nik Gowing in Nature’s Newsroom at COP-26 on 2 November 2021. This followed the announcement of a significant agreement on funding an end to deforestation globally starting in 2030.
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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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Nik chaired all five days for what had to be a hybrid of studio-based broadcasting and virtual participation. Leading high-level speakers included HRH The Prince of Wales, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, California Governor Gavin Newsom and International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol.
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
Bravo Dame Kate Bingham for highlighting power of a ‘wartime’ #mandate to create unthinkable change on #vaccines! At #thinkunthink we agree this is key to addressing (#climatechange) (#cyber) and other huge #challenges.https://t.co/nrDcA8ZFsT
— Think Unthinkable (@Think_Unthink) November 24, 2021
Watch @NikGowing’s personal reflections on @Cop26.Why does he regard it as remarkable? What's next, given the planet is on borrowed time? What will shift the leaders?https://t.co/FTOANP30n2
— Think Unthinkable (@Think_Unthink) November 13, 2021
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