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November, 2, Glasgow, Stockholm, Washington DC, Nairobi, Online
Exponential Climate Action Summit IV — COP26 Backdoor, November 2
Industry & Buildings
Welcome to our second daily broadcast from the negotiations floor at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.
Today’s theme, Industry & Buildings, is part of the Exponential Climate Action Summit IV – brought to you live from Glasgow and our hubs in Nairobi, Washington DC and Stockholm.
In today’s broadcast we’ll bring you keynote speeches from Martina Otto, head of Cities Unit at UN Environment Program; Åsa Tamsons, Senior Vice President, Ericsson; and Pär Larshans, Director of Sustainability, Ragn-Sells; and more.And don’t miss the panel discussion on fossil-free steel, with Jonas Otterheim, head of Climate Action, Volvo Cars; Thomas Hörnfeldt, VP Sustainable Business, SSAB; and Luke Herbert, international director of communications, The Climate Group.
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
Please observe: The broadcast start has been delayed with up to 15 minutes.
17:15 GMT (approx.) — Introduction: Industry & Buildings
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.
17:45 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.
18:40 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.
19:40 GMT — Behavioural Change
Changing human mindsets and habits with tools like policy and communication is also part of the picture. Meet experts and doers on incorporating 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).
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.
Sandra Frank is a co-founder of Arvet who built two eight story apartment buildings totally in wood in Stockholm 2013. Since then she has been an advocate in replanting and growing our building materials to create a circular and more sustainable building industry. Our building industry is letting out more emissions to create concrete and steel than any other and we need to spread the knowledge in how we create new buildings that are more environmentally friendly.
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.
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/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.orgProgram director for RE:Source since 2020. Between 2018-2020 she was running her own company Elco, as an advisor for sustainability and circularity. Before that she was the Sustainability Director for Filippa K 2011-2018. Advisory board member for the UN founded programme “One Planet network”, the Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (SLE) Programme.
Thomas Hörnfeldt is VP, sustainability & public affairs, at SSAB. He has an MBA from Uppsala University and an MSc from KTH in Stockholm. He has vast experience in general management and sales, market intelligence, and sustainability. His career started at ABB, where he spent nearly 13 years in management positions in the metals industry.
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.
Martina has over 25 years of experience in Environmental Policy and Programme Management, with a particular focus on energy, buildings, transport and sustainable cities, as well as partnership building. At the UN Environment Programme, she has served in different functions out of Paris and Nairobi, including in the Executive Office, heading UNEP’s work Transport, Bioenergy, Energy Policy, UNEP's work on on Cities and the Secretariat of the Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, and now heading the Secretariat of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.
Having spent the past 12 years working in the voluntary and compliance carbon markets and climate policy thought leadership, Marco holds the role of Director Projects & Portfolio Management. With practical experience in carbon project development, implementation, and trading, Marco is passionate about placing innovation and partnership at the heart of our climate projects. The team currently manages more than 300 projects worldwide and it consists of a team of more than 200 experts around the globe. Marco graduated in International and Economic Policy from the London School of Economics.
Kalle has co-founded two companies in the Stockholm tech scene, Booli and Sensebit Group. When realizing the severity of the climate crisis he stepped down as the CEO of Booli and co-founded GoClimate. GoClimate wants to enable individuals and businesses to take meaningful climate action. Today GoClimate has over 8000 members and has helped over 800 companies with their climate work.
Jonas studied for a Master of Science degree in Management and Economics of Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology. He started his professional career at EY, working as a management consultant for several years. In 2017 Jonas joined the Corporate Strategy department at Volvo Cars. In 2019 he took on the role as Head of climate action, where he has the global responsibility of Volvo Cars climate strategy, to become climate neutral across its full value chain by 2040, while reducing its total emissions as fast as possible already today.
In 2010, Nina founded the business network Haga Initiative and is its CEO. She has previously worked at, among others, the Environmental Adminstration in Stockholm, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the Prime Minister's Office and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. In recent years, Nina has been on the list of the 100 most powerful in Sustainability Sweden. In 2014, she was named Sweden's most environmentally powerful woman. She has also started two consultancy companies; 2050 and Transformity.
Dr. Jennifer Jenkins is the Chief Sustainability Officer at NCX, the leading provider of high-quality forest carbon offsets, dedicated to creating climate solutions at scale by connecting landowners with net-zero pioneers. With a technical background in carbon cycling and ecosystem science, Dr. Jenkins brings more than 25 years of experience on matters at the intersection of forests and climate across government, academia, and the private sector. In 2007, Dr. Jenkins was part of the IPCC team that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with former Vice President Al Gore for their collaborative efforts on climate change. Dr. Jenkins earned a Ph.D. in ecosystem science and natural resources from the University of New Hampshire, a Master of Business Administration from the RH Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, a Master of Forest Science from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Arts in biology and environmental studies from Dartmouth College.
Luke Herbert is the Director of International Communications at Climate Group. He has previously worked at Madano with multinational energy businesses and industry. Prior to that, he spent seven years as Head of Government Affairs at Jaguar Land Rover. Luke's career combines external relations with a background in sustainable development, including spells with the Department for International Development (DFID) in Cairo and Shell International in The Hague.
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