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How do you persuade people to take action on climate change? Professor Liz Bentley, Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, is a climate communicator used to navigating the vicious comments and online trolling to get her message across.
King Charles lll has shown himself to be a vital and hugely influential force for mobilising every effort to save our planet. As the Prince of Wales he spent 50 years highlighting the abuse of nature and the existential threat to all we take for granted. We owe him a great deal.
A new analysis of the climate crisis suggests that the Earth is approaching ‘dangerous’ climate change even earlier than expected. A team of scientists have analysed 16 potential climate tipping points and conclude that the Earth may have left a ‘safe’ climate state beyond 1°C global warming.
Tipping points are not a new idea, but they have great potential in understanding the climate crisis and how we can work together positively to avert the coming environmental crisis.
We face dark times. Very dark times. All of us. They will be darker times than almost all of us can visualise or have ever experienced. But few seem to realise the true enormity of what we all confront, let alone how to come to terms with this. For the vast majority of us it is unthinkable.
The highest ever recorded temperatures across much of Europe in July confirm that the scientific warnings were right and worse looms.
Bob Ward is Deputy Chair of the London Climate Change Partnership. In this interview with BBC London News on 19 July he urged everyone who lives and work in Greater London to understand why they must adapt quickly their lives. Or else…
Record, sizzling temperatures in Europe and North America have confirmed the existential threat to the way of life we take for granted.
John Kerry is President Biden’s Special Climate Envoy. He detailed the ominous realities and failings to James Naughtie on the BBC’s World This Weekend on 24 July 2022.
Professor Tim Lenton, Director of the Global Systems Institute at Exeter University, talks to TTU’s Chris Langdon about how we must all face up to the climate reality. He says we can all be empowered by the opportunities in triggering positive social tipping points to avert climate crisis.
I have been torn wearily in recent days. I emphasise weary. I kept asking myself: what really matters? Here I give you three reflections based on three experiences.
Be inspired to be positive by Tom Fletcher, a young and remarkable ex-diplomat. Take risks. Have mad ideas. Challenge yourselves: are you using technology or is it using you? A leadership conversation with ex-diplomat and Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, Tom Fletcher.
Board members must realise the urgent need to innovate and change, or stakeholders and shareholders will change them. Helle Bank Jorgensen, Founder and CEO of Competent Boards, explains how her new work encourages and achieves behaviour change.
What leaders must learn about connecting risks. From the pandemic to the climate emergency, social media and the misuse of technology, the threats are increasing year on year. Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees reveals his greatest fears to TtU’s Nik Gowing and Chris Langdon.