In The Sustainable Hour on 4 December 2019, Mik Aidt has just returned from a speaker-trip in New Zealand, where he talked about the emerging ‘Pause Movement’ and the impact which a wave of ‘Coldplay Moments’ could trigger – if more leading artists and sports teams followed Coldplay’s example and pushed the big Pause Button on their activitities. Could it trigger an entirely new level of bold climate action with emissions slow-down and massive economic disruption around the world? Our 11-year-old youth reporter Ben Pocock is ready with his second report – this time with ten good tips on how each of us can take positive action, and our global outlooker Colin Mockett brings a report from EU and the United Nations climate summit in Spain. We learn that he had his ‘Colin Moment’ already 30 years ago.

We discuss the idea of a Pause Movement with Cindy Eiritz, Strategic Director at Regenerate Earth, who is building community consensus for regenerative farming methods and building healthy soils. Will we succeed in making the 2020s into a decade of regeneration and eco-restoration?

“All of us in every industry have to just work out what the best way of doing our job is.”~ Chris Martin, Coldplay front man

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What will be your Coldplay moment?

"How can…our tour be sustainable"Chris Martin on why @coldplay won't be touring their new album. Watch the full interview on #BBCBreakfast with @ColinGPaterson pic.twitter.com/PaQ2nkqeF7— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) November 21, 2019

“We’re taking time over the next year or two to work out how our tour can not only be sustainable [but] how can it be actively beneficial. (…) Our next tour will be the best possible version of a tour like that environmentally. We would be disappointed if it’s not carbon neutral. The hardest thing is the flying side of things. But, for example, our dream is to have a show with no single use plastic, to have it largely solar powered. We’ve done a lot of big tours at this point.