...this is a youth initiative to promote, mobilize and motivate world leaders to take action and implement stricter climate regulations to save the planet.
YOUTH-4-CLIMATE 2021: DRIVING AMBITION
A chance for young people to propose ideas and concrete actions to address climate change. Almost 400 young people aged between 15 and 29 from 186 countries will meet in Milan from 28 – 30 September 2021 to address the main urgencies and priorities of climate action. The ‘Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition’ meeting in Milan is part... Continue Reading →
“Blah, Blah, Blah”: Youth Climate Activists Slam Political Inaction at U.N. Summit Ahead of COP26
Thousands of youth climate activists marched through the streets of Milan last week demanding world leaders meet their pledges to the Paris Climate Agreement and keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The protest came at the end of a three-day youth climate conference, ahead of the United Nations’ COP26 climate... Continue Reading →
Join the dialogue on https://www.wedonthavetime.org/ and follow our speakers on the world's largest review platform for climate solutions. Our third Exponential Climate Action Summit will focus on the challenges, opportunities, and creative solutions regarding circularity and resource efficiency. What role can circularity play across production chains in the Race to Zero? How quickly can... Continue Reading →
The 12th Sustainable Innovation Forum (SIF) | COP26
The 12th Sustainable Innovation Forum (SIF) will be convened alongside COP26, 6 years after 196 world leaders signed the historic Paris Agreement.
COP26 Coalition | People’s Summit for Climate Justice
On 7-10th November, we’re organising the People’s Summit as an alternative to business as usual of false solutions and inaction at the COP negotiations.
Updates: Billionaire Wealth, U.S. Job Losses and Pandemic Profiteers
August 23, 2021 Update: US Billionaires 62% Richer During Pandemic, up $1.8 Trillion; Wealth gain could pay for half of Biden’s $3.5 trillion package U.S billionaires have seen their wealth surge $1.8 trillion during the pandemic, their collective fortune skyrocketing by nearly two-thirds (62 percent) from just short of $3 trillion at the start of... Continue Reading →
Nature Is Bringing the Heat and We’re Acting Like a Deer in the Headlights
Why is it so hard to imagine something better than capitalism? Canada’s recent heat records, wildfires, and over 450 deaths are the tip of a quickly melting iceberg. And only a week earlier someone leaked an IPCC draft report which warns of just how close we are to a cascading failure of our precious ecosystems.... Continue Reading →
Who’s A Greater Threat To Our Planet — Next-Door Junk Hoarders Or Private Island Billionaires?
It’s time to call out the “Billionaire Money Hoarders” for their harmful and antisocial behaviour It was still dark yesterday morning as I sipped my coffee and somehow found myself watching the show “Hoarders”. It made me think of an article that I read last week about a billionaire who was charged for doing essentially... Continue Reading →
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the state of corporate sustainability and how it’s not delivering on the promise of a sustainable business model. Before you contest that fact, remember that in 2018 CO2 emissions hit their highest level in recent history, plastic pollution continues to get worse and is now in our food... Continue Reading →
Fake Leadership is dangerous when it comes to Corporate Sustainability, Plastic Pollution and Climate Change.
The Hidden Subsidy of Fossil Fuels
Alas, such a clean fix is impossible, because the $5.2 trillion figure includes much more than a cash transfer from government to businesses. By the commonsense definition of the term, governments actually subsidized fossil fuels by $296 billion in 2017, according to the report.
empowerment & inner transformation... 