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November 1, Glasgow, Stockholm, Washington DC, Nairobi, Online
Exponential Climate Action Summit IV — COP26 Backdoor, November 1
Food Production & Nature-Based Solutions
Welcome to our first daily broadcast, live from the ground at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
Today’s theme, Food Production & Nature-based solutions, is part of the Exponential Climate Action Summit IV — brought to you live from Glasgow and our hubs in Nairobi, Washington DC, and Stockholm.
Listen to renowned speakers such as Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the UN Conventions to Combat Desertification (UNCCD); Johan Falk, founder of the Exponential Roadmap Initiative; and Emelie Öhlander, Climate Action Program Manager at Ericsson. You will also hear about two great solutions to restore degraded land and learn about the world’s first climate-positive hamburger chain.
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
17:30 GMT — Introduction: Food Production & Nature-Based Solutions
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.
18:30 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.
19:15 GMT — Disruptors
Breaking the bonds of our fossil-fueled economies requires innovation, technologies, policies, and business that upend the status quo and enable emerging companies and initiatives —disruptors — to occupy center stage.
20:00 GMT — Behavioural Change
Changing human mindsets and habits with tools like policy and communication is also part of the picture. Hear from experts and doers on how we can incorporate the transformation into how we think, speak, and act.
21:00 GMT — Summary & End Of Broadcast
Questions from HUB experts: Dr. Robert Ndungu Josphine, Veterinarian & Research scientist (Nairobi), Dr. Sweta Chakraborty, We Don't Have Time (Washington, DC), Therese Lundqvist, Green Little Heart (Stockholm)
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.orgOlga Grönvall Lund is a Swedish entrepreneur who has worked with food-related projects her whole professional career. She has mainly been active in Stockholm and Berlin but has also hosted events, catered, and done productions in other parts of the world such as Hong Kong, London, Bologna, Copenhagen and Paris to name a few. In 2019 Olga founded Reformaten – a people’s movement for a positive food system where everyone’s winner – humans, animals and nature. The slogan, “Det ska vara lätt att äta rätt”, explains the purpose well; “it must be easy to eat right”.
Dr. 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.
Johan Falk is a leader and entrepreneur in exponential strategies for climate and business. Falk is the CEO and Co-founder of Exponential Roadmap Initiative, with the mission to accelerate exponential climate action. Falk is the co-lead author of Exponential Roadmap and 1.5°C Business Playbook. Falk is a former Senior Innovation Fellow at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Future Earth. Falk was one of the initiators of the Global Carbon Law idea, together with Owen Gaffney and Johan Rockström, inspired by Moore's Law. Further, Falk was part of Intel Corporation 2006-2018, responsible for Intel IoT Ignition Lab and heading up the Intel Edge Cloud Game Changer program for 5G networks. Falk received the Intel Global Design Win of the Year 2010 for accelerating the telecom business exponentially to a multi-billion dollar business.
https://exponentialroadmap.org/https://exponentialroadmap.org/1-5c-business-playbook/Master of Sience from Chalmers University of Technology. Long career in chemical industry with several CEO positions in large global corporations and has been Chairman of the Swedish Chemicals Association. Now Chairman of the BioInnovation fund and board member of a few mid size companies. Most important is my job as CEO of EasyMining that has developed,and is commercializing, circular technologies that produces nutrients in a way that directly and indirectly is reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Ibrahim Thiaw has been working within the UN for many years. He’s a specialist in forestry, forestry product techniques and has about 40 years of experience in sustainable development, environmental governance and natural resource management. Alarmed by his own land footprint and whether current products will be affordable for future generations, this year he is on an global awareness-raising campaign about the sustainable consumption and production of food, fibre (fashion), and animal feed.
Kaj Török is Chief Sustainability Officer at MAX Burgers since 2016. In 2008 MAX created the world's first climate-labeled menu and started capturing emissions through reforestation in Africa. In 2019 MAX received UN Global Climate Action Award for the world’s first climate-positive menu. Swedes say that MAX has the tastiest burgers. MAX is also the company in Sweden that is most well-known for taking climate action. Kaj has worked with sustainability since the mid-90s and was awarded Sweden's best sustainability officer in 2020. Kaj is a popular international keynote speaker.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kajtorok/Wessel van Eeden is a purpose communication specialist. Started his career as marketing director for ID&T and their Sensation events. Since 2003 he was involved in the start of Dance4life(.com) where Wessel headed global communications and marketing until 2010. Since 2013 Wessel is purpose marketeer at Justdiggit and heads up global communications and marketing and is a member of the executive board.
Ole Kristian Sivertsen was appointed President & Group Chief Executive Officer of Desert Control in August 2019 to drive the transition of the present start-up with a scale-up model. Ole advocates solutions to foster the prosperity of life on earth by regenerating soil and green ecosystems, enabling adaptive climate-smart agriculture, and preserving our natural resources.
As a Social Serial Entrepreneur, he has been involved in many companies as well as several international family businesses: indeed he comes from six generations of Germany’s largest organic farmers and four generations of European Hydroponic Agronomists. Marc is a Visionary for Global Citizen social movement to end extreme poverty. The Germany and Austria Country Coordinator for Al Gores Climate Reality Project and an international speaker on the climate crisis. Delegate at EAT Stockholm Food Forum. Party Delegate, and speaker at UNFCCC COP events. An ambassador for Future Food Institute. Committee member for Environment and Innovation for the Italian Federation of Human Rights FIDU – Federazione Italiana Diritti Umani. A faculty member of Berlin School for Sustainable Futures, Futur/IO Institute, Researcher with Future Earth, and ResearchGate.
https://marcbuckley.earth/Owen manages Nestlé’s global climate change, nature and water related advocacy, communications and engagement activities. He is also responsible for topics related to animal welfare within the Public Affairs and ESG Engagement team. In this role, Owen advises and guide’s Nestlé interactions with multi-lateral institutions, business associations and other coalitions of action on the environmental agenda – supporting the company’s aim to advance regenerative food systems at scale. Prior to taking on this role, Owen headed up Nestlé’s global issue and crisis management function. Before joining Nestlé, Owen advised clients in the food, agriculture and health sectors on corporate communications and public affairs programs.
Emelie Öhlander is the Climate Action Program Manager at Ericsson, with responsibility for executing the climate strategy and Net Zero program objectives, maintaining Ericsson´s leadership position in the area of climate action. Emelie works with Ericsson´s Net Zero program, employee engagement, as well with external partners to demonstrate how connectivity, innovation drives exponential change in society i.e. how technology such as digitalization, AI and 5G can help mitigate climate change.
Richard is an environmental scientist with a strong track record of leading teams which tackle plastic pollution, reduce food waste and deliver more sustainable practices within businesses. He leads WRAP’s international work, working with partners in over 25 countries to deliver systemic change, particularly within the food system. WRAP is a not for profit organisation, based in the UK, which aims to cut waste around the world and deliver a Net Positive future. WRAP’s programmes, such as the Courtauld Commitment, inspire and deliver change, for example helping reduce food waste across the UK supply chain by 27% or 1.7 Mt/y.
Let's get it done, and make great business out of it. That is Mattias Goldmann's approach to sustainability and climate. He is a Senior Sustainability Advisor, and was Chief Sustainability Officer at Sweco until August 2021 when leaving for independent work in Bangkok, linked to the Swedish Embassy. Mattias was previously CEO of the green and liberal think tank Fores, with the 2030-secretariat for a fossil independent transport sector. Mattias was named Sweden's Most influential in sustainability issues, 2016, and runner-up Opinion Maker of the Year, 2017, when he was also knighted by the French government for his work against climate change. He was earlier named "future politician of the year", which shows that the future is hard to predict - he left party politics shortly after that. Mattias was born in Geneva, has lived in Chile and Kenya, mainly resides in Stockholm but currently in Bangkok.
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.
Ceren Clulow MBA Currently leads the Digital Connectivity Service in Nottinghamshire County Council. Ceren worked for the Council for over a decade. Most recently Ceren has brought together a consortium for a 5G testbed in Sherwood Forest (and its surround area). Council led £10 million project will see cutting-edge apps transform the visitor experience including virtual reality tours of the medieval forest. New robotic environmental management will also be tested alongside live monitoring of the health of Sherwood Forest to preserve the site for future generations. The last 4 years have seen her working in the growth and investment function. She has single-handedly secured several million pounds of funding via numerous bidding processes to extend the superfast broadband coverage in Nottinghamshire. Thanks to this, over 98% of the county now receives superfast services. Previously, a strategic and policy procurement lead for the authority, Ceren has designed a variety of contracts including framework agreements. Originally from Istanbul and prior to coming to the UK, Ceren possess extensive private sector experience having worked as a Human Resources expert for major retail businesses. She is at ease when working collaboratively with the public and private sectors on ensuring Nottinghamshire is at the forefront of exciting initiatives. Ceren’s digital connectivity projects build on excellent achievements and will truly see Nottinghamshire at the heart of the digital industry and at the centre of the regional, national and international tourism map.
Dr. De Jager is president of the World Farmers’ Organisation and former president of the Southern African confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU, 2013-2018) and of the Pan African Farmers Union (PAFO, 2014-2017). He is also chairman of the board of Agri All Africa, a board member of FANRPAN and serves on the board of Agri Limpopo, where he is responsible for land reform, transformation, farmer development and Africa Liaison since 2004. He has farmed in South Africa since 1997 (in the South African Lowveld region) with timber and subtropical fruits (avocados, mangoes and macadamia nuts) and also keeps goats.
Rebecca Tickell is a filmmaker and author who, along with her husband and production partner Josh Tickell, specializes in films that present solutions to big environmental problems including FUEL, THE BIG FIX, PUMP, GOOD FORTUNE and KISS THE GROUND (Netflix / Woody Harrelson). Together the Tickell’s films have been shown in the White House, have won over 100 prestigious film and humanitarian awards including the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sundance, been shortlisted for an Oscar and have inspired over $10 billion dollars to be invested into renewable energy and regenerative agriculture globally. They are currently worked on their sequel film to KISS THE GROUND as well as a number of exciting films which will begin to roll out in 2022.
Josh Tickell is a filmmaker and author who, along with his wife and production partner Rebecca Tickell, specializes in films that present solutions to big environmental problems including FUEL, THE BIG FIX, PUMP, GOOD FORTUNE and KISS THE GROUND (Netflix / Woody Harrelson). Together the Tickell’s films have been shown in the White House, have won over 100 prestigious film and humanitarian awards including the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Sundance, been shortlisted for an Oscar and have inspired over $10 billion dollars to be invested into renewable energy and regenerative agriculture globally. They are currently worked on their sequel film to KISS THE GROUND as well as a number of exciting films which will begin to roll out in 2022.
Beth is a respected environmental leader. She joined Patagonia from her position as Deputy Chief Executive at Client Earth, an environmental NGO with a unique approach – using the power of the law to create systemic change. Prior to ClientEarth, Beth spent four years at the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, the RSPB, as Director of Fundraising & Communications. A passionate defender of nature, she came to the NGO sector following a sabbatical spent as a crew member of the Sea Shepherd campaign ship, confronting trawlers and whale fisheries in Antarctica. Beth grew up in Tokyo and, as a teenager, her love of oceans drove her to study marine engineering. She then went on to study a Masters in Business Administration and worked as a marketing director for nearly 10 years before moving into the environmental sector.
Martin has 25 years of experience as Creative Director and entrepreneur leading organizations within advertising, branding and innovations. Clients include Nike, Chanel, Siemens, Absolut and Madonna. Martin's work has been recognised in numerous prestigious international awards including Designpreis der BRD, Designpreis Schweiz, Good Design USA and Japan, finalist in the Swedish Grammy Awards and two times Best of the Best at RedDot.
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