November 9, Glasgow, Stockholm, Washington DC, Nairobi, Online
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November 9, Glasgow, Stockholm, Washington DC, Nairobi, Online
COP26 Backdoor, November 9
Circular Electronics
Welcome to day nine of our daily broadcasts from the negotiations floor at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. We bring COP26 to you – live from Glasgow and our hubs in Nairobi, Washington DC and Stockholm.
Listen to top speakers like Sacha Ghiglione from Prime Computer AB, Ingmar Rentzhog, Founder & CEO of We Don't Have Time, and Claire Shrewsbury, Director of Insights & Innovation at WRAP. You will also hear about the challenger, meet the players who, moving ahead of their competition, lead the way through bold climate action.
Tickets to participate in physical hubs:
Glasgow • Stockholm • Washington DC • Nairobi
November 1 • November 2 • November 3 • November 4 • November 5 • November 6 • November 7 • November 8 • November 9 • November 10 • November 11 • November 12
19:15 GMT — Introduction: Circular Electronics
Daily COP26 briefing — what is going on in Glasgow and the negotiations with interaction from our Hubs in Stockholm, Nairobi, Washington D.C and online audience.
19:55 GMT — The Challenge
20:35 GMT — Transformers
Meeting the Paris Agreement goals requires a seismic transformation in all sectors of society. In fact, established businesses have no choice if they want to stay in the game — meet players who, moving ahead of their competition, lead the way through bold climate action.
21:10 GMT — The solutions
22:00 GMT — Summary & End Of Broadcast
Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.
Previously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.
https://www.earthday.orgDr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.
http://swetachakraborty.comAnita Soina is a Kenyan environmental Warrior and Climate Activist. 2021 TedX Speaker, Founder of SpiceWarriors Environmental Organization and Author of “The Green War” book. She’s also a sustainability digital influencer. She is now a Green Party Politician.
Dr. Robert is veterinarian and infectious disease researcher motivated by the need to build resilient community driven - public health systems and solutions to tackle threats to human health and food security. I hold a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from University of Nairobi (2013) and MSc in Immunology of Infectious Diseases from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2016). I also have extensive experience in social justice advocacy and community centred public health interventions with a focus on marginalized communities including LGBTI persons, people living with disabilities and rural marginalized communities. My current interest is in exploring how climate change influences human and animal health and applying community driven One Health models to build public health resilience and adaptation to climate change.
Christina has been working with sustainability in the business community since the late 1990’s, most recently in her role as Senior Sustainability Specialist at Telia. She has a background from Stockholm School of Economics, and she connects the climate crisis as well as biodiversity loss to business strategy. Throughout her career, she has been working with IT and digitalization, and she sees these technologies as key enablers in building sustainable societies. Christina is a Climate Reality Leader, trained by Al Gore, and from May 2021 she holds the position as Regional Co-Ordinator for Climate Reality in the Nordics. Christina is an appreciated communicator, and she has delivered 75+ climate presentations in the business community.
Sacha is CEO and Member of the Board of Directors of the Swiss climate neutral, green IT manufacturer Prime Computer. As a trusted Advisory Board Member he provides Start-Ups with knowledge, understanding, and strategic thinking of the industry or management of specific cases. Envisioning to motivate people to think and act in a more sustainable way towards our home, Earth, Sacha contributes in his role as Board Member of the European Technology Chamber & the Climate Action Commission, his valuable know-how to foster awareness and support the use of European technology to reach the sustainability goals (SDGs) of the UN around the world and reduce emissions that contribute to Climate Change.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachaghi/Ingmar is serial entrepreneur within financial communication and nominated for a DI Gasell Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of The Year, Sweden’s Environmental Influencer 2018, and International Gamechanger of the Year 2020, and Green Warrior 2021. Ingmar Rentzhog has been the chairman of the environmental think tank Global Challenge. He is on the board of Naventus Corporate Finance. He’s a member of Al Gore’s Climate Reality and European Climate Policy Task Force and he was in 2022 appointed a European Climate Pact Ambassador by the European Commission.
https://www.wedonthavetime.orgMartin leads the early stage, high growth, Stockholm based consumer electronics brand Transparent with the vision to be the first circular tech brand. Martin previously co-founded the product design consultancy People People that was acquired by EY Doberman in 2018. Martin has been the editor in chief of the Swedish product sustainability guide and served as thought leader for Kickstarter in New York where he helped shape their Environmental Resources and guides for crowdfunding projects that's implemented over thousands of design and tech projects yearly.
Husband, Father, Executive Chairman @n2sltd, Director Bisocope 3 Ltd, Rugby World Cup Winner, MBE, Trustee & supporter of charities, including SOHK & Wooden Spoon & digital poverty. Passionate environmentalist & strong advocate for a true net zero sharing & driving positive actions in the metals sector with technology, for a green circular economy. Impassioned UK Government business climate hub member for SME’s.
Claire is Director of Insights & Innovation at WRAP, in which role she is responsible for WRAP’s policy and insights work, technical support for local authorities and grant management across the UK. The teams support Defra in its implementation of the Resources & Waste Strategy and similar support programmes for the devolved governments in Wales and Northern Ireland.
Wolfgang Lehmacher is an advisor at Topan AG, Switzerland. The supply chain expert with a passion for sustainability, innovation and people is partnering with individuals and organizations worldwide to drive positive change. Formerly, Director, Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum, in Geneva and New York, Partner and Managing Director China and India at strategy firm CVA, President & CEO GeoPost Intercontinental at France’s La Poste, and Head of the Eastern European and Mediterranean Regions and Country General Manager Switzerland at TNT. He is founding Member of the Logistikweisen, an expert committee under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry BMVI, and the think tank NEXST in Singapore. The business book author and FT, Forbes, Fortune, BI and Nikkei contributor is also Host of the Supply Chain Innovation Network, Board Member of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, Singapore, and Ambassador European Freight and Logics Leaders Forum, Brussels.
Martin is an experienced CEO passionate about strong business development with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and service industry. Foxway's vision is to make digital life easy. We strive to be the top leading company in Europe for sustainable IT services and recycling. Our way is about changing and leading the development of a sustainable digital society.
Robert currently leads Logitech’s Global Sustainability function, with responsibility for driving Logitech’s “Pervasive Sustainability” commitment to deliver on the company's ambition to help Sustainability become “..a mindful principle infused into everything we do at Logitech”. Over the past decade, Robert has overseen this transformation by building and fostering a team with capability, drive and ambition who are delivering on this broader vision. Robert advocates for a science-based approach to transformation and sees Logitech committed to climate action efforts focused on 3R’s - Reduce, Renew and Restore
Ove Lidström for the role of responsible for business development and the development of new innovative offers for the Nordic market. Ove has a solid experience of leading roles in the IT- and telecom industry and comes most recently from Apple, where he has been Sales Manager for many years and thus an important part of the Swedish organisation’s success.
Andy Murray manages the development and delivery of the Planet pillar of Vodafone’s Purpose strategy, siting within Vodafone Group’s Sustainable Business Team. He focuses on climate innovation, environment and circularity. Driving the delivery of and reporting on the programmes to meet Vodafone’s global transformation goals: science based 2040 net zero targets, carbon accounting, circular economy approach and how Vodafone's connectivity services can be an enabler of positive environmental change. He’s an keen runner, passionate about environmental issues and evidence based, positive solutions for change.
Mats has over 20 years’ experience in digitalization and sustainability. Under his leadership Ericsson was the first manufacturer in the telecom sector to have science-based targets on a Net Zero trajectory and also the first company in the sector to renew targets after successfully concluding their first SBTi commitments. The conviction to base decisions and plans on science and facts is manifested by being part of the initiation and steering of the Exponential Climate Action Roadmap report as well as leading the joint project with Columbia University on ICT and SDGs. Mats has been spearheading industry in sustainability both as a consultant and in global companies such as Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Nokia and Nobia.
Christophe Lintz joined the European Patent Office (EPO) as a patent examiner in 1984, directly after his degree in MSc Mechanical Engineering. He was involved in the development of the first series of search and documentation tools for the examiners and for external users which are for some of them still in use such as Espacenet. He holds Director positions in various business areas and is currently Director IT with the role of CIO Senior Adviser. Christophe is leading the Information and Communication Technology sustainability project of the EPO since he is convinced that we have all to take action to reduce our (digital) carbon footprint. This project contributes to making the EPO carbon neutral by 2030.
Known globally for his focused management style and creation or growth-oriented businesses within the infrastructure construction and alternative energy sectors, Andres de Leon was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer in 2019. Previously, Andres had served as Chief Operations Officer for HyperloopTT for three years. Andres brings 30 years of international experience as a senior executive in manufacturing, finance management, private/public business negotiation, and tax and audit supervision to HyperloopTT. Andres has initiated and executed corporate affairs in Spain, Belgium, Portugal, France, Italy, Mexico, Chile, and the United States. While receiving a degree in law and his MBA from one of the world’s top business universities, IE Business School, Andres worked in the financial department and became Deputy Financial Director of Terratest Construction in Spain where he oversaw the construction of major construction projects around the world. Later he became General Manager of a multinational industrial group, specializing in the manufacturing of alternative energy products on a global scale.
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