Outrage + Optimism

If you haven’t heard, COP26 is about to happen.

This week we embrace the complexity that is a COP (Conference of the Parties), and try to frame what is going to happen in the next 2 weeks so we don’t lose focus on limiting global heating to 1.5C.

We’re joined by Communications Director of COP25 & COP26 Climate Champions, Matthew Phillips. Matthew is inextricably linked with the process of COP26 and shares his wisdom and unique insight into what a successful COP26 looks like.

So if you’re thinking about the logistical nightmares of COP26, what the Heads of State might say, how NDCs are going, or how inequities are being addressed at the COP this year, this conversation is for you.

Stay til the end for a beautiful soundscape of children’s voices from Positive Imaginings.

Enjoy!

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WATCH: TED Countdown

Learn More: Rowanbank Environmental & Arts Education

LISTEN: Positive Imaginings Children’s Soundscape

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Thank you to our Guest Co-host this week! 

Matthew Phillips

Communications Director | Climate Champions

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Tom Hale is BACK and here to announce the official Launch of the Net Zero Tracker!

So yes - this week we have Associate Professor in Global Public Policy at Oxford University, Tom Hale, who joined us back in March of this year discussing the launch of a report “Taking Stock of commitments to Net Zero”. That report put a spotlight on the credibility of a wave of government and business net zero commitments at the time. He is now returning more triumphant than ever with a significant update - The launch of a publicly available Net Zero Tracker!

It’s a big deal.

Our host, Paul Dickinson jumps in to ask, What the Hale IS the Net Zero Tracker? And how is it creating radical transparency that will lead to actually limiting global heating to 1.5C?

In tandem with the Net Zero Tracker is a new release as well, The Net Zero Dashboard Codebook - Filled with terms to bring absolute clarity to Net Zero pledges, promises, and commitments...so what the Hale do all these terms mean? Stick around for our classic Lightning Round.

The Race to Zero continues!

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Links Mentioned in the Show:

Net Zero Tracker

UNEP Gap Report

Oxford English Dictionary Climate Words Added

NYT Visualization of Emissions Pre-Paris vs Current vs Pledged vs Necessary for 1.5C

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Thank you to our guest this week! 

Thomas Hale

Associate Professor in Global Public Policy at Oxford University

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Blavatnik School of Government

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*inhales deeply* Fresh off the TED Countdown Stage and moments after the ‘Green Carpet’ at The Earthshot Prize Awards 2021 AND a week and a half away from COP26 - Has there ever been a more exciting moment?

This week we give our first-hand experience at TED Countdown, discussing ‘the moment’ and what followed when Christiana was moderating a discussion on the TED stage about our theories of change with Ben van Beurden, Chris James and Lauren MacDonald. Also Christiana and Tom recall a few exciting moments from the Earthshot Prize Awards and the future investment in scaling these 5 award winning solutions to meet our rapidly approaching climate targets.

In an incredible interview, our very special guest this week is First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. We met her at her residence in Edinburgh to discuss this new vision she has for small countries collaborating on climate action, and the phenomenal TED Talk she had just delivered (ensured by a standing ovation). Tom says, “it was one of the best I’ve ever seen.”

And in perfect harmony with this week’s subject- An amazing song this week from DIVEST - we hear them play ‘Something’s About to Change’. It’s really, really good.

Enjoy the show!

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Absolutely Required Viewing: Decarbonizing fossil fuels: An unedited discussion from TED Countdown Summit

Follow Up Read: Christiana Figueres reflects on the emotionally charged climate debate that riveted TED

Watch: The Earthshot Prize Awards 2021

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Thank you to our guest this week, Nicola Sturgeon!

Nicola Sturgeon

First Minister of Scotland

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Scottish Government

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The incredible DIVEST was is our musical guest this week

DIVEST

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For the first time ever, we are all in-person bringing you this episode from the TED Countdown Summit in Edinburgh! TED Countdown is an event that officially kicked off on 12th October and encompasses four days of inspiring talks, collaboration, connections and commitments to meaningful action for a better world ahead of COP26.

Our guest today is Paul Polman, return Outrage + Optimism guest and a celebrated business leader who made sustainability the heart of a global consumer business’ growth agenda in his former role as CEO of Unilever. He is joined by one of the most widely read, published and acclaimed writers on sustainability, Andrew Winston, to talk about the new book the two have co-authored, “Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take”.  

We unpack the ways the book re-frames how business can put a lasting end inequality and climate change. Can every business be Net Positive? Find out!

Stick around for a track of epic proportions from musical guest, WACO.

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Go buy Paul + Andrew’s new book: Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take

TED Countdown!

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Clay Recommends - Visualizing Climate Change: An Open Call For Photography

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Thank you to our guests this week, Paul Polman and Andrew Winston!

Paul Polman

Influencer, business leader, campaigner

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Andrew Winston

Writer, Adviser/Speaker on Megatrends & Sustainability, Consultant on Corporate Strategy

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Amazing music this week was from WACO!

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You gotta see their punkishly cosmic music video for “A New Future”

They have a physical copy of their latest record for sale out on Venn Records, made from leftover waste vinyl: “Hope Rituals” - Buy It!

Sales will be donated to Beyond Gender - Please check out the work they are doing to create a fairer and safer society.

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With only 99 months left until 2030, and COP26 in less than 1, time is ticking on 1.5. And young people know it.

So today, a timely and relevant conversation with Climate Activist, and return guest to Outrage + Optimism, Luisa Neubauer. This time, focusing on climate change and its impact on the mental health and outlook on the future of young people everywhere.

The backdrop to the conversation with Luisa are two recently published studies (One from The Lancet, another from Science.org) examining the psychological effect of climate induced anxiety and perceived government inaction on our youth, and their current and future lived experience of the impact of climate change.

We also consider causes for optimism at the other end of the spectrum as The Eartshot Prize has announced its finalists and is featuring a high profile TV series focusing on the regenerative and transformative projects from small community efforts to public policy driven national initiatives.

A just future is possible. What will we choose?

Hit play, join us for the conversation, and stick around for musical guest this week is the one and only Gizmo Varillas!

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Earthshot The TV Series featuring Christiana Figueres is now available to view on Discovery+ and BBC iPlayer!

TEDCountdown Summit is next week!

Climate Grief and Anxiety Studies:

Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon

Intergenerational Inequities in Exposure to Climate Extremes

Check out the incredible activists Christiana and Paul met in Dubai:

HE Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany

permanent representative of the UAE to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

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The UAE Mission to IRENA

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Nisreen Elsaim

Chair, UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change

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Heeta Lakhani

Global Focal Point, YOUNGO and Director, UmeUs United Pvt. Ltd.

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Children and Youth constituency to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (YOUNGO)

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Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY16)

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A recommendation from Clay:

Go listen to ‘The Flock’ - An epic audio drama about rising up against environmental destruction - From the view of birds!

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Thank you to our guest this week, Luisa Neubauer!

Luisa Neubauer

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Check out her podcast:

1.5 Degrees

And of course, her incredible TED Talk

Learn more about Fridays For Future

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Amazing music this week was from Gizmo Varillas!

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You probably heard last week was Climate Week and UNGA. But, what actually happened?

To cover it all, we get into the cornucopia of methane reduction announcements from countries across the world, a quick update on China, and a special focus this week on the announcement of the ‘Protecting Our Planet Challenge’, an announcement that saw 9 philanthropic organisations, including the Bezos Earth Fund, collectively commit $5 billion of funds to the 30x30 campaign. 

We explore what this funding announcement means for the campaign, what effect this could have on government ambition and commitment to biodiversity as we gear up for COP26, and how this is a goal every single one of us can unite behind.

Joining us this week is Cristián Samper, President and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Cristián played a key role in convening the 9 organizations to launch the Protecting Our Planet Challenge. It marks the largest-ever philanthropic commitment to nature conservation and a significant step in addressing the triple crisis that threatens our planet – climate change, nature loss and economic insecurity.

Thanks for listening! Stick around ‘til the end for a live performance of 'Ocean' by special musical guest Palmaria!

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Go watch Global Citizen Live!

Read the Sierra Club’s rundown of ‘Climate Night'

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Thank you to our guest this week: 

Cristián Samper

President and CEO | Wildlife Conservation Society

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Bezos Earth Fund 

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High Ambition Coalition (HAC)  for Nature & People (30x30 campaign)

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Amazing music this week was from Palmaria!

Palmaria

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Listen to 'Ocean'

Also, check out their live performance music video for ‘Ocean’!

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Following the success of UN Food Systems Summit, or as it’s also known- “The People’s Summit” we get a chance to speak to the driving force behind it, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Food Systems Summit, Agnes Kalibata.

Formerly Rwanda’s Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) from 2008 to 2014, she drove programs that moved her country to food security helping to lift more than a million Rwandans out of poverty.

Now as Special Envoy, her efforts toward progress of the delivery of the SDGs, and to prioritise Food Systems in the global conversation around climate change are coming to a 2 year culmination. Besides this summit being the first time the UN has called a summit dedicated to food systems, it is engaging more than 100,000 people from 147 countries through 900 independent multi-stakeholder dialogues on food system transformation. UN Summits are often mostly prepared statements by member states. This move to put people and dialogue at the center was a radical return to destroying our siloed thinking when it comes to global issues.

The Food Revolution begins with a Thought Revolution, and people are at the heart of systemic change.

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Check out Friday For Future’s #UprootTheSystem

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Thank you to our guests this week: 

Dr Agnes Kalibata

UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy | 2021 Food Systems Summit

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UN Food Systems Summit 2021

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Welcome to the first episode in a brand new series on The Future of Food!

Today, this episode coincides with a very important international gathering, the first of its kind at the United Nations. Known as the UN Food Systems Summit, formally, it is also called The People’s Summit.

During this ongoing series we will seek to unlock the many changes needed to enable each sector – government, corporations and citizens to ask themselves, “How can we contribute to a transformative movement for an inclusive, regenerative and circular society where access to nutritious food is a right we actually realize for every single person?”

But before we eat, we need to set the table. We’re joined on this episode by:

Dr. David Nabarro

Co-Director | Imperial College of London Institute of Global Health Innovation 

Senior Advisor | Food Systems Summit Dialogues 

Strategic Director | 4SD Switzerland 

Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID19

Johan Rockström

Director | Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research

Dr. Gunhild A Stordalen

Founder & Executive Chair | EAT

These incredible guests help us explore in-depth the challenges and opportunities our current food system faces, and show us why getting food right might just be the key to unlocking our path to achieving our 2030 goals.

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Mentioned links from the episode:

Global Citizen is streaming a 24 hour concert live from Central Park on Saturday, Sept 25

Watch BTS do their thing at UNGA

The 500-foot Sea Creature will be scaling the UN Facade this week

Fridays For Future is hosting a Climate Strike on Friday, Sept 24. Find your local strike here

Be sure to catch up on Climate Night which aired Live on Sept. 22

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Thank you to our guests this week: 

UN Food Systems Summit 

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Dr David Nabarro

Co-Director | Imperial College of London Institute of Global Health Innovation 

Senior Advisor | Food Systems Summit Dialogues 

Strategic Director | 4SD Switzerland 

Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID19

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4SD 

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Johan Rockström

Director | Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research

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Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK)

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Dr Gunhild A Stordalen

Founder & Executive Chair | EAT

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EAT Foundation

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Our struggle with the Climate Crisis begins with naming it, facing it, and engaging it.

Last week, the latest NDC Synthesis Report published showed that global emissions are on track to rise by 16% by 2030. With science screaming at the top of its lungs to get us to cut emissions 50% by 2030 to avoid catastrophic warming and climate tipping points, this 16% number says unequivocally, “we are headed in the wrong direction” as BBC Science Editor David Shukman tells us on today’s episode.

So that’s where we’re at. How do we face this moment with stubborn optimism? Tom dials up David to wrestle with the reality of how short our NDCs are of achieving the Paris Goals, and what mindset and ambition it will take to get our world’s biggest emitters to transparently confront this issue and reverse the course of rising emissions.

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Links mentioned in the episode:

NDC Synthesis Report

Climate change: UN warning over nations' climate plans - David Shukman

Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon

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Thanks to our guest this week:

David Shukman

Science Editor | BBC News

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Today, only 15 percent of land and 7 percent of our ocean are protected. Nature needs more.

The science is very clear – to prevent a mass extinction crisis, support a growing global population, and address climate change, we must conserve at least 30% of the planet by 2030.

...So why now? The science is very, very clear - If we act now we can limit the disaster, and we could even reverse the trends of climate change in an equitable, just fashion. But how?

This week we’re joined by Rita El Zaghloul, Coordinator of the High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature & People on behalf of Costa Rica. She is the driving force behind ambition at The HAC’s 30x30 campaign, slamming the pedal to the metal on their aim to agree to this plan at the COP15 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in October. The best part about it? It centers indigenous leadership and indigenous rights, while mobilizing financial resources both publicly and privately to ensure protected areas are properly managed, all the while protecting at least 30% of the planet by 2030;

We know our situation is dire. But we also know it’s going to take everything (aka Nature) and everyone (aka People) to keep us below 1.5 degrees. The HAC’s 30x30 campaign is one of the roadmaps there. 

Nature is counting on us. What future will we choose?

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Our Guest This Week:

Rita El Zaghloul

Coordinator of the High Ambition Coalition for Nature & People on behalf of Costa Rica

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High Ambition Coalition (HAC)  for Nature & People

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Musical Guest This week:

Mr Bruce

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You need to watch Mr Bruce’s BRAND NEW video for I Am Disaster

Sign the petition to recognize the legal status of climate refugees.

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