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Remarks by Nick Nuttall, the UN Spokesperson for the Paris Climate Agreement and We Don’t Have Time Presenter at an Event Hosted at the Nordic Pension Fund SPP Stockholm, 22 April 2024--The next UN climate conference in Baku, COP29, is being billed as the finance COP. So how fast and how big are the financial flows right now in terms of financing a transition to a low carbon economy that meets the goals of the landmark Paris Climate Agreement of 2015? Let us remind ourselves, that we need to halve global emissions by 2030, to have a 50/50 chance of hitting net zero midcentury and keeping an average global temperature rise no higher than 1.5C. Without finance shifting, we won’t make it. It is a massive topic, and there a lot of numbers out there. But the world is getting better at unravelling this substantial jigsaw puzzle in terms of climate finance flows within countries and between them. One good source, that does a good job at simplifying the numbers of government and perhaps more importantly private sector flows, is the Global Landscape of Finance by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) It estimates that climate finance reached almost $1.3 trillion in the period 2021/2022, the last date we have. At the time of the Paris Agreement of 2015, it stood at around $ 570 billion, so you could note that it has more than doubled since nations all agreed to act together. Yet, and perhaps this is important, it is only currently around 1 per cent of global GDP. It also masks the fact that most of this money is being spent on two key sectors---both renewable energy and energy efficiency, and the electrification of transport. This current figure is also heavily skewed towards investments in richer countries in Europe and North America plus a relatively small number of big emerging economies like China, Brazil and some parts of Africa. Investment in other key sectors is much lower—think transitioning to smart, regenerative agriculture, forestry, other infrastructure, waste management, natural or nature-based systems and adapting to climate impacts. That is the best guess on the current state of play. Perhaps more importantly perhaps is what is actually needed to spare the world and its people from dangerous climate change over the coming years? What finance flows are needed to keep at or below the key safety target of 1.5C target? The International Energy Agency estimates $4.5 trillion a year by 2030 for clean energy investments alone—a big slice of that is needed in developing or poorer countries. Remember, climate change will not be solved by simply rich countries doing the right thing domestically, we need to help the poorer countries do their bit—a finance issue again. Of course, clean energy is just part of the finance landscape, albeit a big part. To cover all sectors beyond just energy, will require climate finance flows increasing from the current £1.3 trillion a year to $8 to 9 trillion up to 2030, according to the Climate Policy Initiative authors. And then the flows need to jump perhaps as high as over $12 trillion a year from 2031 to 2050—the 2050 date being when the world needs to be what they call net zero. Think of net zero as the point when we have restored the balance, where the emissions we produce into the atmosphere are down so low, a restored natural world of forests and other nature-based systems can absorb the pollution as it did in the past. The sums involved sound big. But remember investments in energy, transport and infrastructure and agriculture and so on will be happening anyway. It is a question of an additional, extra cost, to make those investments work for climate action, to help decarbonize our global economy. How much is this extra cost then, above and beyond what you might call business and usual investment flows? The consultancy McKinsey, writing for the World Economic Forum, estimates that $3.5 trillion of the bigger sums suggested will be extra money to climate proof the global economy. So, to deal with climate change might be not as high as it looks on first glance, something like 3 per cent of GDP perhaps. There is an alternative. We don’t invest in decarbonization across all sectors in all parts of the globe, in other words we sit back, go play golf and have permanent wild parties watching the sun set. Setting aside the suffering and misery that uncontrolled climate change would cause, the best economics indicate not investing in climate action would also be economic shot in the foot. The Climate Policy Initiative report says: “The longer we delay meeting total climate investment needs, the higher the costs will be both to mitigate global temperature rise and to deal with impacts”. They compare carrying on as we are with acting to keep the temperature rise no higher than 1.5C. “Although climate investment needs are large, the amount required is a fraction of the estimated losses….from direct impacts of increased weather-related and other uninsurable damages, increased production costs, productivity losses and health costs”. To move the needle fast, given we have just 6 years before 2030, we will need increases in government finance including to a variety of international sources. Ones like the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility, government overseas development aid and the various small funds managed by the UNFCCC like the adaptation fund. But this will never be enough—governments struggled to meet a target of giving poor countries $100 billion in climate support pledged at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009. Some think it was only, finally met, by last year’s UN climate conference in Dubai after 13 years—but this is more a political success than a finance mobilization one. No, what we need is private sector finance to step up big time, not for charitable reasons, but because it is in everyone’s self-interest—let the temperature soar and many will find their business models under stress and perhaps in danger of collapse. Unfortunately, there appears to be a collective schizophrenia here among far too many banks, equity funds and others able to make a difference. Not least when it comes to funding or not funding the very substances that are causing much of the problem: the fossil fuel companies. On May 13th, the latest report in a series called Banking on Climate Chaos will be released by a group of NGOs. We don’t have the new numbers. But last year’s shows that since the Paris Agreement, the world’s biggest 60 banks have poured over $5.5 trillion into the big oil companies, fueling expansion. These include both private and government fossil fuel companies like Shell, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Total Energies, Conoco Phiilips and BP and Saudi Aramco and China Petrochemical. The general consensus is that the fossil fuel industry should at the very minimum be not bringing new coal, and oil and gas on stream. A point repeatedly made by the International Energy Agency in their reports on hitting net zero by 2050. And if we are to meet the safety goals of the Paris Agreement fossil fuel companies should be going beyond that by having pathways to decarbonize their operations and supply chains. The main funders, according to the Banking on Chaos Report last year were US banks like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citi and Morgan Stanley. But there are also European banks in the mix, like BNParibas, Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Scotiabank. So, what is going on given that many of these banks say they support the Paris Agreement and some are members of something called the Net Zero Banking Alliance. Insiders say these banks think tighter government regulation will come, so they want to support as much fossil fuel expansion as possible—and make a lot of money-- before that happens. They are happy it seems to lock the world into more fossil fuel infrastructure in the name of profit, even if that infrastructure leads to more climate change and may soon be stranded—another definition of madness! I asked if the report’s authors if they would be happy for a bank to support a We Don’t Have Time broadcast on the topic and the named only one-- La Banque Postale in France. I checked: Their portfolio of fossil fuel investments has declined sharply, and according to independent certifiers, they are on track to meet their target of fully exiting fossil fuels by 2030—magnifique, but just one out of a long list. Fortunately, La Banque Postale is not a person or investor’s only choice if they care about climate change. A new report out this week by the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty with the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, who were regular guests on our shows from COP29 in Dubai, has 17 banks calling for a fossil fuel phase out including Ekobanken in Sweden and Merkur Cooperative Bank in Denmark plus some American banks. So, we do have choices about where we bank—we can move the money away from the masters of the universe to the fathers and mothers of a better future! There is some good news—funding for coal by banks seems to be declining generally, except perhaps for Chinese banks. Insurance companies are also part of the story. Despite many being crucially aware of the risks to their business from growing numbers of extreme weather events, many are still underwriting fossil fuel expansion. Many are at the same time becoming ever more risk adverse to underwrite property insurance amid concerns of climate fueled extreme weather events. Yet they are still part of the ecosystem that keeps the oil pumping busy. Again, surely some cognitive dissonance here. Finally let me talk about equity funds briefly. Influence Map is a research organization out of London. Their last report on funds looked at 593 equity funds with over $265 billion in total net assets classed as Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) funds. They found that over 70 per cent were not aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement. They also looked at 130 funds theme as climate funds—55 per cent were not aligned with the Paris goals. Companies in the funds regularly popping up include Exxon Mobil, TotalEnergies, Kinder Morgan, Halliburton and Chevron. Without Influence Map, many casual investors in such funds managed by familiar names like Black Rock or UBS, would think they are doing good—but they are not, one might say they are even being duped. If you want to know more, check out We Don’t Have Time’s broadcast from last year’s NYC Climate Week where we featured these findings and discussed it with experts—it was good TV. Ladies and gentlemen, let me conclude. The coming 1 to 2 years is going to be potentially a key window in the history of humanity. At the last UN climate conference in Dubai, where we were broadcasting daily for close to 12 days, governments kicked started the process to revise upwards their collective national climate plans. The plans will, for the first time, include all sectors of the economy and finance is going to be a hot topic. This process will begin in Bonn, Germany, the HQ of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in June when governments meet and will pass through the next UN annual climate conference in Baku in November and culminate in Brazil in 2025 at COP30. Indeed, the finance debate has already started. Last week at the World Bank-International Monetary Fund’s Spring meeting a group of countries led by Barbados, France and Kenya, stepped up the push of what is called the International Tax Task Force. The aim is creating new levies on fossil fuel producers and sectors like aviation and shipping plus a levy on international financial transactions. The aim is to support the generation of up to $2.4 trillion to support low income and emerging countries fight climate change. In parallel, Brazil is lobbying for support under the G20 for a 2 per cent minimum wealth tax on the world’s billionaires. We Don’t Have Time will certainly try to bring the debate to a global audience with broadcasting in June from the UNFCCC, through NYC Climate Week at COP29 in Baku. If you think this is important, you can support our work and even be guests on our programmes if you want to contribute to the discussions and influence opinion. So let me conclude, the money is moving but not as fast as the science says we need. Governments have only so much money to support both domestic climate action and poorer countries who need support to meet their climate plans including adapting to the impacts many are already experiencing. It is beyond this short snap shot to cover all the solutions. But it is clear governments, who have signed up to all the climate science reports on the risks we are running and committed under the Paris Agreement to hold a temperature rise to no higher than 1.5C, need to exercise their policy powers. They need to regulate whether it be on banking regulations, and they need to remove the trillions of dollars of public subsidies propping up the fossil fuel industry. They also need to urgently ensure that there is transparency in the area of investment funds too so investors can make real choices. Perhaps new measures, like the EU’s directive on corporate sustainability reporting will help—let’s see. But overall progressive investors in equity funds or people with money in banks, need to stand up and be counted to ensure that their money is working for the future, rather than trapping us in the past with all the chilling consequences for every man, woman and child. It is time to move the money!
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By Racquel Moses The Caribbean region is at the forefront of the climate crisis, yet despite this – and despite representing 1% of the world’s population – it receives a mere 0.3% of climate finance. This inequity is mirrored elsewhere and across the global distribution of climate financing, with a staggering 94% directed towards mitigation and only 6% for adaptation. As CEO of the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator, I am dedicated to rectifying this glaring disparity. We must accelerate the race towards a sustainable future by connecting public and private investment opportunities with organizations and projects that are developing sustainable solutions for our region. This work is essential because the Caribbean is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Sea level rise, more intense hurricanes, and changes in precipitation patterns are already having a devastating impact on communities, ecosystems, and economies. Ultimately, our shared actions and the collaborations we foster will determine whether we win together or, regrettably, face challenges collectively. Our Accelerator, dedicated to propelling economic development in the Caribbean region, provides a timely boost in this race. Serving as a bridge, it connects public and private investment opportunities with organizations and projects that are developing sustainable solutions for the region. These supported projects, aiming to enhance climate resilience, protect ecosystems, advance clean energy, and more, have the potential to drive positive change far beyond the region's shores. One example is our smart agriculture project in Anguilla, Barbados, and the Cayman Islands, where – through funding from the Sony Music Global Social Justice Fund and the support of agriculture technology company Fork Farms – we were able to grant 12 vertical indoor hydroponic systems. Each one of these, which takes up just 9 square feet of space, can grow 25 pounds of lettuce every 28 days while using 98% less water and land than traditional agriculture. We are fully aware that the journey towards a clean future cannot be taken alone. Bringing everyone along on this voyage is essential, especially if the end goal is a just and equitable world. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of participating in the Zayed Sustainability Prize Forum during New York Climate Week, where I addressed the crucial issue of climate justice and equity. I called upon the world’s financial institutions to rethink the climate finance landscape to promote equity. These actions can help bridge the capacity gap and ensure that smaller regions have a fair chance to access the funding needed to address climate change effectively. The Zayed Sustainability Prize exemplifies the ethos of partnership, particularly how it works to scale impact. By recognising and rewarding the achievements of organisations and high schools who are driving innovative sustainability solutions, the Prize encourages others to follow suit, creating a ripple effect that spans borders and generations. The monumental decision on loss and damage made last year at COP27 reinforced a clear need: as losses continue to mount, we must invest more in adaptation and loss and damage to reduce the devastating consequences of climate change that are already impacting communities, ecosystems, and vulnerable populations worldwide. In the Caribbean, we are diligently working on building our economic resilience by supporting entrepreneurs with climate solutions primed for export. This economic resilience will eventually fund both our adaptation and mitigation efforts. I cannot underestimate the pivotal role of civil society and businesses in our shared quest to transform aspirations into actions. These are the entities translating global goals into local initiatives, demonstrating that change is not solely a top-down process. It is these grassroots efforts that form the backbone of our sustainability journey. Looking ahead, these efforts lay the foundation for the crucial climate gathering at COP28 in the UAE, where the first global stocktake will shape key decisions for our planet's future. Let's build the momentum now for a brighter tomorrow Racquel Moses is the CEO of the Caribbean Climate-Smart Accelerator, an organisation dedicated to driving sustainable economic development and entrepreneurship in the Caribbean region, and a UNFCCC Global Ambassador. https://www.caribbeanaccelerator.org/
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Moses underscores the necessity for increased investment in adaptation and loss and damage, as reinforced by the decision at COP27. The focus on building economic resilience and supporting climate entrepreneurs highlights a bottom-up approach, acknowledging the pivotal role of civil society and businesses in translating global goals into local action.
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Your commitment to funding adaptation and mitigation efforts further highlights the foresight and dedication to creating a positive impact.
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Rivers and oceans are frequently thought of as separate entities, but they are intricately connected parts of the Earth’s water cycle. The same toxins and heavy metals that affect the health of our rivers also threaten our oceans. And the plastic, fertiliser and sewage runoff that enters rivers also inevitably makes its way to the sea, where it harms marine life and ecosystems. Which is why, when it comes to protecting our oceans, we also have to protect our rivers. Rivers don’t just provide fresh water for billions of people, and abundant ecosystems for wildlife, they are also crucial pieces of the larger puzzle of ocean health. 📷: Yahya Walijee
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Unfortunately, they're still threatened. We must commit to recovering freshwater biodiversity, restoring natural river flows and cleaning up polluted water for people and nature to thrive.
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Wow this river is so blue it seemed to be breathing. Well I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea. but its sad to note about all the toxic it carries along their way. Humanity we should take care of our sources, wetlands, rivers as well as our oceans....as all are interconnected.
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Thank you for sharing these insights, I feel oceans get a lot of air time but rivers are often forgotten whereas they are obviously connected
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I am so proud as a Burnley football fan to see they have joined this great public campaign, where many teams in England have taken off images of nature from their logos to underline what a world without nature would look like on #WorldWildifeDay Great Campaign. Burnley normally has bees in its crest/logo, today the bees are gone and a world without bees is a world of deepening and maybe terminal hunger! https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/content/club-support-worldwithoutnature
CLUB SUPPORT #WORLDWITHOUTNATURE
The world’s best-loved brands and sports team will team up once again as part of WWF’s #WorldWithoutNature, to rally against nature loss
https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/content/club-support-worldwithoutnature
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Dear Nick Nuttall Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to WWF UK and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Football as a popular sport will go a long way in fighting climate change, this is a great campaign and congratulations to Burnley for this action. All teams in world should embrace this
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Great step
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Congress can lead the way for agriculture to build community through food and conservation We are farmers who believe in climate change and our agency to help mitigate its effects. We raise meat, grains, fruits and vegetables for an ever-growing human population, while we store carbon in the soil, reduce fossil fuel use and protect our natural habitat, water and air. We and thousands of other young farmers need help from the next farm bill, which is up for reauthorization in 2023. This new farm bill could be a legendary piece of legislation that results in more healthy diets, younger and diverse farmers on the land and more climate change mitigation than we have ever seen in the farm bill's history. Healthy diets should become a product of SNAP Over three-fourths of the current farm bill funds food stamps and nutrition programs, yet the majority of the food purchased with these programs is processed food and subsidized to be cheaper than fresh food. Low-income users of the food stamp program have higher rates of diabetes, obesity and other diet-related illnesses because of this cheap processed food. It would be a win-win for farmers and consumers alike if the farm bill prioritized purchasing programs that support locally and regionally grown fresh vegetables, fruits and proteins for institutions and those needing food assistance. Supporting and subsidizing fresh and local foods reduces fossil fuel use, increases the nutrition of the food with fewer food miles and connects consumers to regional farmers to gain knowledge about where their food comes from. Regional food systems can be a rural boon If the farm bill emphasized healthy diets and local and regional food systems, farmers like us could contribute to our local economies and communities ten-fold because those food dollars would be spent locally. With a food movement that's more regional, the rural vitality of small-town America could thrive with value-added small- to mid-sized businesses such as flour mills, bakeries, restaurants, breweries and distilleries, delis, animal processing and butchering, composting facilities, fiber mills and other value-added food processing. Main Street America could be bustling once again, and rural America could be a place where people want to live, work and play. Conservation and preservation must be a bigger priority Only 6% of the farm bill funds conservation efforts. We need a substantial increase in conservation funding to support those farmers who protect precious natural resources — our soils, water and clean air. We also need to restructure crop insurance and commodity programs to be fair to all farmers and more inclusive of all crops. If the farm bill were to prioritize conservation and preservation on working lands, this would dramatically reduce the overuse of tillage, mono cropping of high input crops, tile installation and inputs like artificial nitrogen — which rely on high fossil-fuel derived inputs. Instead, the farm bill would incentivize farmers to grow more diversity of food, grow and preserve trees and forests, graze perennial pastures with ruminants and poultry and implement the hundreds of other conservation practices that are proven to keep soil in place and air clean. Land values are at an all-time high and are increasing, predominantly and falsely based on crop insurance and corn suitability ratings. If any of us were to decide to buy tillable land to grow anything outside of corn or soybeans, it would be an economic failure to do so. Why? Because the value of corn and soybeans currently is so much higher than that of providing ecosystems services to conserve and protect our natural resources. Corn is king, to the detriment of long-term resilience and health of our food, our communities and our environment. We as farmers should have the right, the freedom, to purchase affordable land and grow what we want on it and make a living at it. This is the true meaning of freedom to farm. It’s people like us, who are most interested in building community through food and conserving our environment, who will create resiliency to withstand climate change. It’s people like us who will work to change the current system of efficiency and production to one that promotes ecosystem health and diversity of people and enterprises. We love our country. We love being engaged within and growing the rural communities where we live. We love to farm and grow food for people. And we want to see more of us on the land. Wendy Johnson and Martha McFarland. Originally published in Des Moines Register. Wendy Johnson is co-owner and operator of Joia Food and Fiber Farm in Charles City. Martha McFarland runs Hawkeye Buffalo and Cattle Ranch in Fredricksburg. This essay also includes contributions from Minnesota farmers Hannah Bernhardt of Medicine Creek Farm, Naima Dhore of Naima’s Farm and Matthew Fitzgerald of Fitzgerald Organics. All participate in Climate Land Leaders.
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A very interesting piece, thank you for sharing with us!
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Climate Land Leaders are working to address the climate crisis on their lands. As landowners, they are implementing ambitious conservation projects, sharing with and learning from each other, and serving as leaders on climate policy and equity initiatives. Climate Land Leaders began as an initiative of Sharing Our Roots, which advances a resilient agriculture system that demonstrates the power to heal our lands, nourish communities and prepare emerging farmers. They have transformed over 23,000 Midwest acres into regenerative practices so far and are growing! This is such a great initiative and they deserve Climate Love 💚 Read more: https://climatelandleaders.org/
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One of the leaders in this initiative is @wendyjohnson who was also a guest on our recent Re: Agriculture broadcast on regenerative agriculture. check it it out https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/reagriculture-iii
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The UNEP along with bodies like the UN System Staff College has launched a new online course to help everyone understand how digitalization can work to save our world and make it a better place. I may well sign up, cause I would love to understand and to know more! https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1djxXlDkQOoxZ
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This will make a huge impact
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Dear Nick Nuttall Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to UN Environment Programme and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Muhammad We Don't Have Time
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Great, it will help alot
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By Nick Nuttall, WDHT Environment Correspondent Berlin, 30 August 2022--Shifting just 2-4 per cent of the global workforce and income from the old dirty economy can transform the future from a dystopian demise to one that addresses environmental, economic and social collapse from rising inequality and climate change. These are among the findings from the Earth for All: A Survival Guide for Humanity book and research project launched today in Berlin that has been convened by the Club of Rome with experts from across the globe. In the Earth4All “Giant Leap” scenario the funding needed to deliver a positive outcome comes from taxing the richest 10 per cent in each country across the globe. Per Espen Stoknes, co-author and Director of the Centre for Sustainability at the Norwegian Business School and a member of the Board of Directors of We Don’t Have Time, described this reallocation of income from the richest 10 per cent as “peanuts”. Sandrine Dixon-Decleve and Per Espen Stoknes launching the new Earth4ALL book The experts said the extreme weather events being witnessed around the globe, from the massive flooding of Pakistan, grinding drought in China and Europe and current energy and the food crises triggered in part by the Ukraine War, were foretastes of the collapse facing large parts of the globe under business as usual. Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, author and co-president of the Club of Rome which brought out its Limits to Growth 50 years ago, told the press briefing at the Bundespressekonferenz that: “ Our economic and financial systems are broken, and we are reaching dangerous levels of inequality. Do we want to create the first trillionaire or do we want to create functional, fair democratic societies? “ Ultimately, Earth for All is about building societies that value prosperity for all rather than profit for the few on a finite planet fit for the 21st century. Let’s be clear, a more equal society benefits everyone, even the very rich”, she added. The full press conference is available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL2TWzrvlYE Crucially to the ‘Giant Leap” transformation will be active governments and states with the decisions and financing shifts needed unlikely to happen if left to the free market. Jorgen Randers, one of the book’s six authors and co-author of the 1972 Limits to Growth, said under the alternative scenario—known as Too Little, Too Late—the world risked political destabilization and economic stagnation”. “We are already sowing the seeds for regional collapse,” he added. The “Giant Leap” scenario envisions five turnarounds that will be unprecedented and need to happen straight away. • Ending poverty through reform of the international financial system, lifting 3-4 billion people out of poverty • Addressing gross inequality by ensuring that the wealthiest 10% take no more than 40% of national incomes • Empowering women to achieve full gender equity by 2050 • Transforming the food system to provide healthy diets for people and planet • Transitioning to clean energy to reach net zero emissions by 2050 These five Earth4All turnarounds are underpinned by a system dynamics computer model that intertwines outcomes for areas such as population, poverty, economy, inequality, food and energy. The turnarounds are backed up by 15 policy recommendations that can power them up at speed and scale. The experts forecast that under the Giant Leap:- • Poverty declines to approach zero around 2050, a generation earlier than Too Little, Too Late • Commitment to progressive taxation reduces inequality so that the 10% wealthiest take no more than 40% of national incomes. • A Citizen’s Fund further supports greater equality by distributing the wealth of the global commons to all people through a fee and dividend system, helping address inequality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and provide a safety net for the most vulnerable through economic shocks • Social tension falls and wellbeing rises throughout the century as a result of greater income equality • Climate change stabilises at below 2°C. Even at this level, this brings serious consequences for societies including extreme heatwaves, flooding, drought and food security, but stronger governments provide greater resilience to shocks • The investment required to achieve the energy and food turnarounds amounts to approximately 2-4% global income this century. This will require unconventional funding for example the Covid-style quantitative easing, and reform of the IMF, World Bank and other multilateral agencies • Population peaks well below 9 billion people by mid-century • The Giant Leap will not happen on its own. Many major shifts in society have been catalysed by huge social movements. The Earth4All team argue that the Great Leap is an economic and job generation opportunity. They estimate the investment needed is about 2-4% of global income to realise, annually, this century—or about USD$2-4 trillion. “This is not negligible, but neither is it shockingly high. It is certainly less than the financial needs to deal with the global pandemic, though that was a short-term shock, and the Giant Leap is a generational project. This estimate is in line with several other estimates (see Yuval Noah Harari’s article in Time for a summary), “they say in a statement. Among the policy recommendations are a $1 trillion investment per year by the International Monetary Fund to stimulate green job growth in poor countries and a universal basic dividend or citizens fund that provide everyone with a fair share of the national wealth. Meanwhile a progressive taxation of the richest in societies is required such that by 2030 the top 10 per cent take less than 40 per cent of national incomes. The Earth4All team are planning a major outreach programme to governments and wider society beginning in September around the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC and will be guests on a WDHT broadcast on the 20th of September. Johan Rockstrom, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and a co author of the new book, stressed:” “Out of hundreds of potential solutions, we have found five interconnected turnarounds that represent the simplest and most effective solutions that we must start implementing this decade to build economies operating within planetary boundaries by around 2050.” He said it was time for national leaders to embrace the realities and adopt the measures needed, working closely with citizens. Professor Rockstrom said there was no time like the present with many poorer countries preparing to meet in Egypt later in the year for COP27 likely to quite rightly ask rich countries just what they have been up to in terms of support and implementing climate action since COP26, the UN climate conference held in Glasgow last November. He said there was genuine concern that the answer was not much. For all the reports and documents underpinning the Earth4ALL report and book please go to https://www.earth4all.life/ Earth4ALL gave the audience of We Don't Have Time a sneak preview of some of the findings in April and June 2022 : please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y77-Dkrygy4&t=24s
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Great solutions
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Fantastic article!
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This is a very important report.
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By Nick Nuttall, Environment Correspondent A pledge by the UK government and a positive legacy from the hosting of the UN Climate Conference last year, has matured into a distillery on Scotland’s east coast becoming the first in the world to be powered by green hydrogen. The family-owned and operated Arbikie company, which has already made a name with its climate-friendly gin, vodka and rye-based Scotch, has just been given the green light by local planners to erect a 1 MW wind turbine. The energy will be used to make hydrogen that by next year should be feeding new, to-be-installed, burners and boilers tailored to turn the green fuel into steam. Just after the UN Climate Conference, or COP26, held in Glasgow last November the UK government announced it would be investing just over 11 million British Pounds to assist up to four spirt producers ditch fossil fuels in favour of hydrogen and biogas. The Green Distillers Competition is part of the UK Government’s Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. Iain Stirling, one of three brothers who run the family's Arbikie Distillery on their four generation-old farm at Lunan Bay, Angus, said: “We are delighted to have been chosen and I hope it shows that UN Climate Conferences can indeed deliver action on the ground”. “If we can demonstrate success, which I am sure we will, there is no reason why all distillers--big and small-- in Scotland cannot be powered by green fuel. Indeed, it is part of our ethos to share what we are doing”. The UK government estimates that the nationally the distilleries sector has the potential to cut carbon emissions by half a million tonnes every year – equivalent to emissions from powering more than 60,000 homes or taking around 100,000 cars off of the road. Mr Stirling said the switch to green hydrogen was the next step in their own journey to become a truly sustainable company and produce the most climate-friendly spirits possible. The brothers farm already supplies the raw materials needed to distil their range of products. And farms buildings, where for example potatoes are stored for making gin, already sport solar panels. Its signature Nàdar gin has, it is claimed, a carbon footprint of -1.54 kg CO2e per 700ml bottle made possible in part by regenerative agriculture techniques on the farm developed in collaboration with Abertay University and the James Hutton Crop Institute in Dundee. Mr Stirling said the beauty of green hydrogen is not just its climate-friendly credentials, but that it afforded the distillery the chance to store the fuel if an excess is produced from the wind power. “We won’t know precisely how much of our total energy needs will be met until we have instilled the turbine and equipment and are up and running next year. But I am sure it will be the majority of our needs, maybe more,” he added. The green hydrogen project is in collaboration with Logan Energy, an Edinburgh-based expert in hydrogen, and Locogen, a renewables specialist also based in the Scottish capital. Mr Stirling, who was a guest on WDHT and the Exponential Road Map’s Third Exponential Climate Action Summit--Circularity and the Race to Zero-- broadcast in September 2021--said distilling was an energy intensive industry. “Which means that what we are pioneering in terms of green hydrogen is not just applicable to our industry, but energy intensive industries everywhere,” he concluded. Note: You can listen to Iain Stirling’s contribution, in dialogue with other experts on circular food systems and agriculture, from the September 2021 broadcast here at around 3 hours and 29 minutes https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/circularity
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This is so great, they really are leaders in this
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By Nick Nuttall of We Don't Have Time Over 40 years of innovation that could have delivered a far greener, global shipping and aviation industry, has been lost as a result of fossil fuel subsidies and weak regulation, a leading expert has told viewers on the latest episode of the Dino Talks. Assaad W. Razzouk, Chief Executive Officer of Gurīn Energy and a top podcaster under the pseudonym ‘The Angry Clean Energy Guy’, also cited years of lobbying by the oil, gas and coal companies as a third, potent factor that has muddied the waters towards sustainable aviation and shipping. “I would suggest we have lost 4 decades of innovation in electric engines, batteries and hydrogen technologies that are applicable to both these major global industries because of the impact of these fossil fuel subsidies,” said Mr Razzouk, who was speaking on the 6th episode of a ten part series presented by We Don’t Have Time and the UN Development Programme (UNDP). He said the snail’s pace change towards cutting emissions and pollution is also compounded by the weak regulation of the two UN agencies that oversee these sectors: namely the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization. “They have no teeth, so you have the perfect environment for these industries to do nothing,” added Mr Razzouk. He said the third drag were the fossil fuel companies who are big beneficiaries from fossil fuel subsidies, currently estimated by the International Monetary Fund as totalling over $6 trillion a year and set to rise, rather than fall, in 2023. “Just 5 oil companies spend $200 million a year on lobbying-- or what any reasonably person should call propaganda. And what that does is work against action by obfuscating the debate that leads to a push back on the electrification of transportation,” underlined Mr Razzouk. He said finally there was change in the wind, with now around 100 different electric plane projects underway around the world. But added that it will take some years for these to come to fruition and that “as long as we still have fossil fuel subsidies, the obfuscation and the delaying tactics of vested interests, will also be happening”. Mr Razzouk, who was joined on episode 6 of the Dino Talks by Andreas Follér, Head of Sustainability at the truck and bus company Scania, said if the world rid itself of fossil fuel subsidies it would single-handedly cut greenhouse gas emissions by over 35 per cent, according to the International Energy Agency. It would also cut around 2.2 million of the estimated 5 million deaths a year linked with air pollution caused by the burning of oil, coal and gas. “So fossil fuel subsidies are not some conceptual framework. They actually kill people,” said Mr Razzouk. He said they were also pernicious, their reach into the economy and society often not well understood and cited the use of bunker fuel by shipping as a case in point. “Bunker fuel is the dirtiest fuel possible, about 100 times worse than diesel. It is also a waste product of the refining process which is a hidden subsidy benefiting the oil and gas industry. Because if shipping was not using it, the oil and gas industry would have to dispose of it safely which would cost them 100s of billions of dollars,” said Mr Razzouk. He said the time had come for citizens world-wide to protest the absurdity of fossil fuel subsidies or “we are staring a temperature rise of not 1.5 degrees C but 2 or 3 degrees in our lifetime”. Overall Mr Razzouk believes the world has almost all the technology and innovation needed to tackle dangerous climate change, but the speed and scale of action was now the limiting factor to success. To watch episode 6 on fossil fuel subsidies with co moderators Nick Nuttall and Cassie Flynn of UNDP, go here https://youtu.be/jXisAl7NKHU
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Great article Nick! We must share this widely. People don't understand how much valuable time we have lost and are still losing because of the fossil fuel subsidies.
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Great article. These subsidies need to end ASAP.
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Floating Wind Turbines on their way! Wind turbines that float and are tethered to the sea bed given green light off the UK. A new dawn for offshore wind in deeper waters. First one now funded and ready to go https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-62100674 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-62037754
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Excellent.
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Young Reporters for the Environment awards 2022 Just joined with colleagues from countries like Slovakia, Montenegro, Canada/Cape Verde, Finland, Ukraine, South Africa, France, UK and Israel in Copenhagen to judge the winners of the 2022 Young Reporters for the Environment which is a partner of We Don't Have Time. The winners in all articles, video and photo categories, will be announced Monday via social @YREint and https://www.yre.global/
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Good luck to all parties involved
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Great to acknowledge the young reporters! looking forward to the announcement of the winners!
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TVE Global Sustainability Film Awards 2022 I hope as many of WDHT's partners who have amazing environment and climate films plan to submit them to these super awards before the deadline in September. Check out the categories and submit your film via the link here. https://filmfreeway.com/GlobalSustainabilityFilmAwards2022
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Great report from scientists and UNEP backs work by companies like Ragn Sells in the Nordic Region and WDHT broadcasts on urgency to act and bring circular economy thinking to often invisible but crucial substance for agriculture and food. See our Stockholm+50 broadcast on phosphorous and nitrogen from last week . https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/food-security And this great new report below https://www.ceh.ac.uk/press/scientists-offer-solutions-global-phosphorus-crisis-threatens-food-and-water-security
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Great initiative by UNEP!
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HSBC says it is in for climate action but top official shows their real, hypocritical colours. Who Cares If Miami Is 6 Meters Underwater In 100 Years?' and hints that short termism means it is OK to invest in coal https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2022/05/20/who-cares-if-miami-is-6-meters-underwater-in-100-years-hsbc-executives-incendiary-climate-comments/?sh=4ba983a1590a
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Dear Nick Nuttall Thank you for getting your climate warning to level 2! We have reached out to HSBC and asked for a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Lol, does this person live in a cave? Everyone should remove their money from HSBC
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It is not so funny. If a high-level HSBC executive talks this way publicly, you can imagine how they talk internally
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Shame on him. He should step down.
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Massive Systems Change Needed to Make Big Emissions Cuts Say World’s Top Climate Scientists Forests and Technologies to Suck Carbon from the Air Needed to Support Action Across Energy, Transport, Buildings, Consumerism and Food Production UN Secretary General Demands an End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies in a Passionate Speech By Nick Nuttall The world is running out of time to halve emissions by 2030 and get on track to a safer, net zero world by 2050. Only a massive, dramatic cut in emissions across the globe and across all sectors of the economy—from the way we travel, power our communities, feed ourselves, consume and heat and cool our buildings—can reverse the threat of dangerous climate change, says the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its new report out today. Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General in a passionate speech accused governments and some sectors of the business world of ‘sleep walking’ to disaster and urged a massive ramping up of renewable energies and an end to coal and to fossil fuel subsidies. The clock is ticking so fast that swift and rapid emissions cuts must now be supplemented by removing carbon pollution from the air and the atmosphere, say the scientists. Boosting the world’s forest cover and other nature-based solutions will be important but the scientists also focused on the need to rapidly develop and commercialize new technologies able to capture carbon pollution from power stations and factories and stored safely. Other technologies that must be now considered are ones that remove carbon from the air and stop it from entering the atmosphere—so called direct air capture—say the scientists from the third working group of the IPCC’s sixth assessment. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Vice Chair of IPCC’s Working Group III and a Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy at the Central European University added: “Carbon dioxide removal will be essential to achieve net zero”. Today’s report looks at the options to achieve the safety goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. It argues that emissions world-wide need to peak by 2025 to realize a 43 per cent cut in pollution by 2030. The researchers point out that on current trajectories the world is facing a temperature rise above 3 degrees C, which could be devastating. Despite the red alert of this and the previous two assessments underpinning the cycle of the sixth assessment, the 278 authors from over 60 countries who have compiled the latest report say it is still possible to keep a temperature rise to no more than 1.5-degree C. They point to the sharply rising penetration of renewable energy and the tumbling costs while also underlining that the challenge of climate change has been stimulating a great deal of innovation including in respect to digitalization and battery storage. Moving forward the assessment notes, among many issues, the need to step up faster with renewable energies to electrify transportation, generate green hydrogen to supply aviation and shipping with alternative fuels alongside biofuels and to decarbonize buildings. The assessment sees great potential in cities which are linked to some two thirds of global emissions including via green roofs, trees and wetlands and by, in older urban centers, the retrofitting of buildings. Crucial to firing up a faster transition will be steep rises in finance into the green, decarbonization space. The assessment says that financial flows into climate action are currently three to six times lower than they need to be to reach the interim 2030 emission reduction goals. Importantly the report urges citizens to prioritize walking and cycling as important lifestyle choices to make a difference at a personal level while also flagging the role of plant-based diets. Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General, responded to the report with unprecedentedly tough and impatient remarks, aimed at governments but also sectors of the business world for their lack of urgency and accused them of “lying”. “The jury has reached the verdict and it is damming. This report is a litany of broken climate promises. It is a file of shame, cataloging the empty pledges that put us firmly on track to an unlivable world,” he said. “We are on a fast track to climate disaster. This is not fiction or exaggeration. It is what science tells us will result from our current energy policies…this is a climate emergency,” said The UN Secretary General. With a nod to the war in the Ukraine and the responses of many governments, he accused too many of adding fuel to the crisis by investing in fossil fuels and failing to take their climate targets seriously when renewables are cheaper, generate jobs and provide greater security. Guterres Applauds Climate Activists “Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries who are increasing the production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness, “said Mr Guterres. “But it does not have to be this way. The report is focused on cutting emissions. It sets out viable, sound options, in every sector that can keep the possibility of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C alive, “he said. Mr Guterres urged a tripling of the speed of the shift to renewable energies “and that means moving investments and subsidies from fossil fuels to renewables now”. He urged citizens everywhere to act and to hold governments accountable to the pledges made in Paris in 2015 and Glasgow in 2021. “We need a grassroots movement that cannot be ignored. If you live in a big city, a rural area or a small island state or if you invest in the stock market, if you care about justice, about children’s future, I am appealing directly to you—demand that renewable energy is introduced now and at speed and at scale. Demand an end to coal power, demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies, “he said. Note. We Don’t Have Time has partnered with the UN Development Programme on its #dontchoseextinctioncampaign aimed at encouraging governments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Our ten part series , called the Dino Talks, has so far broadcast two episodes. They can be screened at https://www.wedonthavetime.org/events/dino-talks-ii Read the UN News Cente UN climate report: It’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115452 IPCC News Release https://www.ipcc.ch/2022/04/04/ipcc-ar6-wgiii-pressrelease/
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An excellent summary Nick
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The UN as an organisation has lost its relevance. Toothless and spineless, it cowtows to the global north and has no powers to crack the whip. Mere posturing and lecturing will not cut it anymore. Development has to flow rapidly to the global south, and the global north needs to degrow even more rapidly. Unless the global north says, WE HAVE ENOUGH, this is not going to happen. This mad rush and greed for more, will drive us to the sixth extinction sooner rather than later. I may seem cynical, but this is the truth, which we have to accept and act upon. Otherwise we are only deluding ourselves that we have a chance. Not happening this way, for sure.
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@Rentzhog That is exactly what I mean. The UN has to morph into something different from what it is today. And yes, the south is not acting more for the climate but if they can get out of the constant fight for survival, then they can look towards climate change. The north needs to accept their wrong practices and move towards degrowth. The south needs to adapt more sustainable development practices and not blindly copy the north. More localisation and appropriate technology and practices are the way forward and we need to do it as one rather than in pockets. That will never work.
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Excellent summary, Nick. The biggest news for me from the press briefing was the harsh language spoken by the general secretary of the United Nations. I don’t understand why most people still don’t listen. We must share this everywhere!
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4 April 2022 is a date for the diary. Removing carbon from the atmosphere will be a key theme of the next assessment from the IPCC --the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, out on that day: trees are great and cost effective, sure. But can the technology under development ever be competitive? This article from MIT from 2019 is worth a read. the magic number seems to be $100 a ton--so maybe direct air capture and other machines could quicker than we think, help get us out of the mess we are in? https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/24/1027083/what-it-will-take-to-achieve-affordable-carbon-removal/ And this article from the journal Nature is worth a quick scan too --Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05357-w
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Nice 👍👍 thanks for sharing
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Superb article
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Looking forward to have an expansive view of carbon sequestration as detailed in the IPCC report. In relation to this topic, here's a nice read too that I found worth to give a climate 💚:Arizona State University Center for Negative Carbon Emissions is advancing carbon management technologies that can capture carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from ambient air in an outdoor operating environment. https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/731632e4-ed3d-4626-9ee7-a7c5116d4e7b?utm_source=url-copy&utm_medium=wdht-rn-app-share&utm_campaign=peter_kamau
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“Give a tree a second look, you will be looking at a great friend” —— Professor Wangari Maathai, Founder, Green Belt Movement Climate thinkers is a stylized vignettes showcasing leading scientists, politicians, and ordinary people providing insights into climate challenges – and some solutions. Produced with support from the World Bank’s World Development Report, UN-REDD, and the Com+ Alliance, the series gets to the heart of the world’s climate change challenges – and solutions. Would you like to see more videos from our Climate Thinkers series? https://youtu.be/Cd8-q0IXpAQ
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Panama Enacts a Rights of Nature Law, Guaranteeing the Natural World’s ‘Right to Exist, Persist and Regenerate’ Juan Diego Vásquez Gutiérrez, Panama’s youngest congressman at 25, sponsored the law and said that the legislation will make it easier to protect the environment because it grants legal standing to people and organizations to enforce the rights of nature. Read: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022022/panama-rights-of-nature/ Image: https://candidatos.espaciocivico.org/media/profile_images/2019/01/26/Juan_Diego_V%C3%A1squez.jpg
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Dear Muhammad Fahd Khan Thank you for getting your climate love to level 2! We have reached out to Juan Diego Vásquez and requested a response. I will keep you updated on any progress! /Adam We Don't Have Time
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Born at Cop21 in Paris , this alliance is bringing forward the huge emissions footprint of the built environment but also what the world needs to do to fix it. Really saw big stepped action by this sector at Cop26 and the alliance deserves credit for this !Great to see them as WDHT‘s latest partner - check them out and give them Climate Love! https://globalabc.org/resources/publications/2021-global-status-report-buildings-and-construction
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Great to see global alliance for building and construction leading in fostering accountability to the building industry on emissions released into the atmosphere.
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PARTNER UPDATE. Tacton is one of the global pioneers of CPQ—configure, price, quote—solutions, providing CPQ software for the manufacturing industry. Sustainability is a key element of the solutions they help their customers develop. We Don’t Have Time recently met with two of Tacton’s chief executives to find out how—and why—they’re doing this. Since its inception more than 20 years ago, Tacton has been using artificial intelligence-driven CPQ software that helps its customers drive sales and offer a selling process that is streamlined and comprehensive, even for the most complex products. In recent years, CPQ solutions have become an increasingly important aspect of many companies’ sustainability practices. “Tacton is different in the CPQ space because we focus exclusively on the manufacturing industry—in particular manufacturers with large and complex products,” said Nils Olsson, chief product officer for Tacton. “These companies might make equipment used in construction or forestry, or they might make entire power plants or big factory production lines.” “We help them optimize solutions that fit their customer needs, and that now includes having the best profile from the sustainability point of view,” he said. “That might mean our customers need to reduce oversizing of solutions, minimize waste, minimize energy consumption, or pick parts that have the most sustainable, most responsible profile. We have built all of that into Tacton’s CPQ software.” CEO Bo Gyldenvang explained, ”CPQ is no longer just about TCO [total cost of ownership] or price or quality only, it’s also about sustainability. It’s a new element in how companies decide what to buy and what to consume, and I feel we have an obligation to build that element into configuration.” “How I see it,” said Gyldenvang, “is we need to influence end-users to make the right choices. At the end of the day, the suppliers will provide what the customers are asking for, so it’s important we make it very easy and very transparent for the end-users to make the right choices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnKf57umXyE Tacton has also incorporated dedicated climate action and other sustainability initiatives into its internal operations, creating new sustainability policies for travel, office utilities, food, recycling, and suppliers. Gyldenvang and Olsson are acutely aware of the manufacturing industry’s global environmental footprint. “One thing prompting us to take action with We Don’t Have Time and in other ways is the simple fact that the global manufacturing industry is a huge contributor to the problem—responsible for 20 percent of C02 emissions,” said Olsson. Gyldenvang said, “We’re new in this. We’re not yet experts, and through We Don’t Have Time we’re aiming to collaborate with other companies who can help us learn what’s right or wrong, what works and what doesn’t. We’re looking for input so we can create the best solutions possible and, together, shape the future of sustainable manufacturing.” Tacton is preparing to launch a series of online events related to the theme of “Conscious Manufacturing”, with the first webinar taking place on Wed., 23 Feb. Find out more at this link. About Tacton: Tacton has more than 250 employees across its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and Stockholm, Sweden, and its regional offices in Karlsruhe, Germany; Warsaw, Poland; and Tokyo, Japan. Tacton’s roster of global customers includes ABB, Bosch, Daimler, MAN, Mitsubishi, Siemens, Toshiba, Pelco, Invent, PlucPack, Yaskawa, Ryder Systems, and Scania, among others. For more information visit www.tacton.com and engage in a climate dialogue with Tacton on their company's page on We Don't Have Time.
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When I first encountered Tacton I was so impressed by how their methodology could make complex manufacturing much smarter - and with that cost less. That sustainability also is built in the process is key to success for their large customers such as ABB and Siemens. Great that you will lead also on enabling this in complex manufacturing processes.
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A new report released today shows that the gas crisis created a paradigm shift for the EU’s electricity transition. Historically Europe’s growing renewables replaced coal power, the most emissions-intensive fuel. However, as a result of soaring gas prices in the second half of 2021, new renewables replaced fossil gas instead. There is good news in respect to solar which grew rapidly in southern but also northern Europe too due to policy rather than sunshine! However overall the interruption to the EU’s coal phase-out slowed emission reductions. With market prices indicating that the gas crisis will continue for at least the next two years, Europe’s climate goals could be at risk if countries fail to step up renewables deployment and legislate to close coal plants. “The gas crisis is a paradigm shift for the EU’s electricity transition,” said Charles Moore, Ember’s Europe Lead. “Action is needed to ensure Europe's coal phase-out stays on track. Legislation is the only way to guarantee that coal plants are closed by 2030; volatile gas prices have made it clear that you cannot rely on market forces alone.” These are among the findings from the energy think tank Ember. You can read the full report here https://ember-climate.org/project/european-electricity-review-2022/
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A report by the BBC picked up by the Daily Mail says countries including the UK are turning a blind eye to The 39,000 tons of unsold clothing being illegally dumped and often burnt in the Atacama Desert--as WDHT spotlighted with the Or Foundation on its Circular Economy and the Race to Zero show last September, this is happening in Ghana. but it is also happening in Chile--it has got to stop and the UK parliament can make a start. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10442745/Britain-responsibility-Chiles-vast-fast-fashion-mountains.html There is also a video here from SkyNews https://news.sky.com/video/video-thousands-of-tonnes-of-clothes-dumped-in-chiles-atacama-desert-12496033
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This campaign needs to be carried out in Nigeria as soon as possible.
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Big network of scientists warning that we must hold climate change no higher than 1.5C to radical improve chance of reversing the loss of plant and animal species https://phys.org/news/2022-01-scientists-urge-quick-deep-halt.html
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Fantastic read Nick! Thank you 🙏
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Looking forward to hearing from speakers that We Don't Have Time will bring in the programs for discussion,debate, to the whole global audience in June,etc, their voices will influence important opinions. It's that time to #MoveTheMoney.