Climate Action News

This podcast episode is about the appeal #WeCanDoIt launched at COP27 by a group of business leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, disruptors, innovators, scientists, influencers, and policymakers worldwide. They are committed to creating a greener, cleaner, and brighter future and believe that we can't afford not to make the transition to a fossil-free economy. They push for the rapid phasing out of global fossil-fuel subsidies, tougher regulations, smarter incentives, sharper climate goals, and accelerating investments in green infrastructure. They believe that we have the will and the solutions to create a more sustainable world, and it is our defining moment to co-create a brighter, better, and more exciting tomorrow for all.

Read more and join #WeCanDoit here: https://wecandoit.tech

We Don't Have Time has together with its partners UNDP, The Exponential Roadmap Initiative, and GoClimate initiated the #WeCanDoIt campaign to create a new narrative in the climate debate.  

We believe, that to accelerate global climate action in time – and get enough people on board to make a difference – we need to focus more on the solutions than on the problem.

We believe we need to start telling the story of the tomorrow we want to create, and to spread the word on the enormous benefits this green shift will bring in terms of new jobs, increased health, restored ecosystems, and limited global warming

This initiative has been created without any financial purposes. You are free to use, reuse and republish it as you wish, as long as you stay true to its original purpose.

For practical purposes we have used We Don’t Have Time’s privacy policies and web hosting when creating the campaign platform.

We have the solutions, we have the will, we have the money, and together we have the power.

We Can Do It!

What if we could regreen desert land into fertile farmlands? In this episode, meet Ole Kristian Sivertsen, CEO of Desert Control. Desert Control is a company specialized in climate-smart agri-tech solutions to combat desertification, soil degradation, and water scarcity. Its patented Liquid Natural Clay restores and protects soil, reducing water usage for agriculture, forests, and green landscapes. Tune in to learn about how human activities accelerate desertification, and how to communicate the climate benefits of farmlands.

Meet the medical doctor and explorer Bertrand Piccard - famous for his solar flight around the world - talks about his firm believe in technology to save the environment. He explains why he will travel the world to present 1,000 solutions for decision-makers, that can protect the environment in a profitable way.

Meet John Hope Bryant, an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and presidential advisor. In this first episode of Climate Action News One-on-one he shares his thoughts about what can we learn from the Corona-crisis in addressing the climate crisis. He talks about his views on the importance of diversity and about keeping social sustainability in focus in a crisis.

Meet Laura Storm. Laura has spent more than a decade creating and heading projects and organizations to help create a more sustainable world and her book about a new leadership paradigm geared for the 21st century has gotten much attention. In this episode she shares her insights about the learnings we can draw from how we are handling the pandemic in how to address the climate crisis. She explains what regenerative leadership is and how it can be used in working with climate action.

Meet Jan Eliasson, a Swedish diplomat who has served in many roles at the UN and was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2012 to 2016.  Currently he is Chair of the SIPRI Governing Board.

Meet Jakob Trollbäck, the designer that created the communications platform The UN Sustainable Development Goals. On this episode he talks about how the work with the Goals are affected by the pandemic and what we can learn from how we as a society handle Covid-19 in how to address the climate crisis.  He also answers the questions all the guests get: “What does climate leadership mean to you?”

In this episode, we have with us the Canadian environmental and climate activist Sophia Mathur. She is 13 years old and has been an activist for five years already. She has spoken at national conferences, received national media coverage, marched in many rallies, and is even suing the Ontario government. Sophia talks about her commitment, the lawsuit, and about the role of the youth in climate activism.

Mindy Lubber heads CERES, a sustainability nonprofit organization working with the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. On this episode she talks about the main actors that can and should act and the effect of the pandemic on the global business agenda.

On this episode Anders Wijkman talks about the Climate Emergency Plan that the Club of Rome has launched, of the necessity to increase our ambitions and about what climate leadership means to him.