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Innovation & Digitalization

Exponential Climate Action Summit IV — COP26 Backdoor, November 5

We Don't Have Time
Exponential Roadmap
Ericsson

November

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Innovation & Digitalization

Exponential Climate Action Summit IV — COP26 Backdoor, November 5

We Don't Have Time
Exponential Roadmap
Ericsson

Innovation & Digitalization

Welcome to our fifth daily broadcast from the negotiations floor at the UN Climate Change Conference. Today’s theme, Innovation & Digitalization 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 show you’ll meet: Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research; Hanna Grahn, Sustainability Lead, Spotify; Börje Ekholm, CEO, Ericsson; Gabrielle Giner, Head of Environmental Sustainability, BT; and many others.

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Please observe: The broadcast start has been delayed with up to 15 minutes.

Broadcast starts at approx. 17:15 GMT (Glasgow), 18:15 CET (Stockholm), 13:15 EDT (Washington DC), 20:15 EAT (Nairobi)

17:15 GMT (approx.) — Introduction: Innovation & Digitalization

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.

  • Johan Rockström, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
  • Börje Ekholm, President and CEO at Ericsson.
  • United Nations Development Programme: Messages to our world leaders

18:00 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.

  • Gabrielle Ginér, Environmental Sustainability at BT.
  • Marc Hoffmann, CEO, E.ON Sverige.
  • Andrew Murray, Senior Environment Manager - Sustainable Business, Vodafone Group.
  • Steven Moore, Head of Climate Action, GSMA.
  • Mats Pellbäck Scharp, Head of Sustainability at Ericsson.

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.

  • Johan Falk, Co-founder and Head of Exponential Roadmap Initiative.
  • Karsten Shein, Climate scientist and science director of 2 Degrees C.
  • Annika Erikson, CEO, Articheck.
  • Paul Coffey, CEO, SCOTLAND 5G CENTRE.

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.

  • Bianca Pitt, Co-founder, SHE Changes Climate.
  • Pär Larshans, Head of Sustainability at Ragn-Sells.
  • Hanna Grahn, Sustainability Lead, Spotify
  • Rainn Wilson, Actor/Activist
  • Gail Whiteman, Professor
  • Sherri Goodman, Secretary General, International Military Council on Climate & Security

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).

Innovation & Digitalization

Hosts and co-presenters

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson (OLD)

 (
SE
)

Host, We Don't Have Time & EU Climate Pact Ambassador

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.

Nick Nuttall

 (
)

Host, Strategic Communications Director, We Don't Have Time

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.org

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty

 (
)

Climate Behavioral Scientist, CEO of North America, We Don't Have Time

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.com

Anita Soina

 (
KE
)

Climate Change Advocate & Green Party Politician

Anita 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 Ndungu Josphine

 (
KE
)

Veterinarian & Research scientist (Infectious Diseases)

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.

Selected speakers

Börje Ekholm

 (
SE
)
President and CEO, Ericsson

An engineer at heart, Börje is passionate about innovation and continuing Ericsson’s drive to be at the forefront of technology, and to empower people and industries to reach their full potential. Ekholm leads the company of 111,000 professionals with a philosophy of “show, don’t tell,” and prioritizes customers above all. Börje assumed leadership of Ericsson in January 2017. From 2005-2015, he served as CEO of Investor AB, a leading investment company in the Nordics. From 2015 until he became CEO of Ericsson, he served as CEO of Patricia Industries, a division created from Investor AB in 2015 to focus on the portfolio of wholly-owned companies. ndustries, a division within Investor AB (2015-January 15, 2017). Prior to assuming this position in 2015, he was President and CEO of Investor AB between 2005 and 2015. Previous positions also include Head of New Investments and President of Investor Growth Capital Inc. Ekholm has had various positions at Novare Kapital AB and McKinsey & Co Inc. Börje Ekholm holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, as well as a Master of Business Administration, from INSEAD, France. He is a board member of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Alibaba Group and Trimble Inc. Ekholm is also Member of the Board of Trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall and the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce New York. Since 2017, Member of the Stering Committee of the World Economic Forum Digital Communication Governors. Holds Honorary Doctorate at The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Mats Pellbäck Scharp

 (
SE
)
Chair, We Don’t Have Time

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.

Pär Larshans

 (
SE
)
Co-host, Director of Sustainability, Ragn-Sells

Pär is an award winner in communication, social sustainability, and intrapreneurship, listed multiple times by Trust Across America as one of the Top Thought Leaders in Trust. He is the current appointed expert for setting environmental targets for sea and coastal regions in Sweden and for the coalition group for climate-neutral Swedish industry by 2045.

Ingmar Rentzhog

 (
)
CEO and Founder of We Don't Have Time

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.org

Bianca Pitt

 (
AU
)
Co-founder SHE Changes Climate

With a background in law, business, media and corporate finance Bianca Pitt is an advisor to the environmental charity sector, an activist and campaigner, and an environmental funder. She is the Founder of the Women of the Environment Network and Co-Founder at SHE Changes Climate. She also serves on a number of boards and advisory committees which include ClientEarth, The Environmental Funders Network, The Sustainable Angle, Action for Conservation and Nature 2030. She and her husband endowed the first Chair for Environmental Sustainability at INSEAD, one of the leading business schools. She is a Fellow of the RSA and TEDx speaker. Bianca lives on a farm in West Sussex, which she and her family are turning into a regenerative venture together with some community farmers and where she enjoys spending as much time in nature as possible.

Annika Erikson

 (
US
)
CEO of Articheck

Annika Erikson studied Paper Conservation at UAL, Renaissance Art History in Tuscany, and the Classics in Greece, before working in conservation and collection care at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Royal Horticultural Society, and Tate, where she got the idea in 2010 to create a mobile digital tool to streamline and create an industry standard in condition reports and conservation documentation. After opening a new conservation studio for John Jones, she became an entrepreneur and founded Articheck in 2013. Annika is a member of the Art Innovators Alliance, International Council of Museums, Institute of Conservation, and Extinction Rebellion. She is also a proponent of the Bizot Green Protocol, which states museums should review loan requirements, storage and display conditions, and building design and air conditioning systems with a view to reducing carbon footprints. Annika has lectured at Sotheby’s Institute, NYU, UCL, Christie’s Education, Kingston University, UCLA, City and Guilds, and Korean Art Management.

Andrew Murray

 (
UK
)
Senior Environment Manager - Sustainable Business

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.

Steven Moore

 (
UK
)
Head of Climate Action, GSMA

Steven Moore is responsible for the Climate Action Programme at the GSMA, the mobile industry association. His role is to provide leadership to support and accelerate the industry transition to Net Zero by 2050. Steven chairs the GSMA Climate Action Taskforce, a global group of more than 60 mobile operator members. He works with the industry on climate policy, strategy and research covering energy efficiency, renewables, supply chain engagement, smart solutions to reduce emissions, and climate adaptation and resilience.

Paul Coffey

 (
UK
)
CEO, SCOTLAND 5G CENTRE

Paul became the CEO of the Scotland 5G Centre –the national centre for the acceleration of the deployment and adoption of 5G in Scotland – in May 2020 and has quickly made his mark on the 5G ecosystem. He is passionate about mobile telecommunications and delivering socio-economic benefit to a broad range of stakeholders to enable digital connectivity.

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström

 (
)
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

Karsten Shein

 (
US
)
Climate scientist and science director of 2 Degrees C

Dr. Karsten Shein is an expert in climate change data and analysis, with a career spanning over 25 years as an assistant professor of meteorology and climatology, climatologist at NASA and NOAA, and director of the Midwestern Regional Climate Center at the University of Illinois. Karsten specializes in climate observations and investigating climate variations and their impacts on communities and natural systems. He is a cofounder of 2DEGREESC, a nonprofit organization connecting people with wearable technology so they may collect and share climate data with science while they enjoy the outdoors. Karsten lives in the US Pacific Northwest with his family and is an avid scuba diver, skier, and nature photographer.

Gabrielle Ginér

 (
UK
)
Head of Environmental Sustainability, BT

Gabrielle has managed BT Group’s thought leadership and external advocacy programmes on environmental sustainability since 2009. Her work has spanned developing BT's carbon targets, including BT's 1.5°C science-based target and carbon abatement methodologies for BT’s products and services as well as working with BT’s Procurement division on supplier engagement strategy. Gabrielle represents BT Group in numerous external fora and has chaired the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Awards Advisory Panel. She has previously held roles in public affairs and programme management at BT and has an MA from SAIS Johns Hopkins University and an MSc from University College London.

Johan Falk

 (
)
CEO & Co-founder, Exponential Roadmap Initiative

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/

Hanna Grahn

 (
SE
)
Sustainability Lead, Spotify

TBA.

Rainn Wilson

 (
US
)
Actor, comedian, writer, director, producer & Founding Director, Climate Basecamp

Rainn Wilson is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, businessman, and producer. As a committed climate change advocate, Rainn is also an active member of the Arctic Basecamp Advisory Board and founding director of Climate Basecamp. Additionally, Rainn co-founded the website and YouTube channel SoulPancake.

Sherri Goodman

 (
)
Secretary General, International Military Council on Climate & Security

Sherri Goodman is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute. She is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. A former first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) and staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Goodman has founded, led, or advised nearly a dozen research organizations on environmental and energy matters, national security, and public policy. She currently serves on the National Academies Advisory Committee to the US Global Change Research Program, and is senior climate advisor to the US Government. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Amherst College.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherri-goodman-8055255/

Marc Hoffmann

 (
DE
)
CEO, E.ON Sverige

Marc is leading the Swedish division at E.ON in a shift to only producing and offering 100 % renewable and recycled energy by 2025. The shift is part of the company’s sustainability ambitions aiming to reduce climate emissions by 50 % by 2025. E.ONs Nordic business covers a wide range of activities within energy distribution and energy solutions, including mobility solutions based on both electrification and biogas.

Hosts and co-presenters

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson (OLD)

 (
SE
)
Host, We Don't Have Time & EU Climate Pact Ambassador

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.

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Nick Nuttall

 (
)
Host, Strategic Communications Director, We Don't Have Time

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.orgRead less
Read more

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty

 (
)
Climate Behavioral Scientist, CEO of North America, We Don't Have Time

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.comRead less
Read more

Anita Soina

 (
KE
)
Climate Change Advocate & Green Party Politician

Anita 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.

Read less
Read more

Dr Robert Ndungu Josphine

 (
KE
)
Veterinarian & Research scientist (Infectious Diseases)

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.

Read less
Read more

Selected speakers

Börje Ekholm

 (
SE
)
President and CEO, Ericsson

An engineer at heart, Börje is passionate about innovation and continuing Ericsson’s drive to be at the forefront of technology, and to empower people and industries to reach their full potential. Ekholm leads the company of 111,000 professionals with a philosophy of “show, don’t tell,” and prioritizes customers above all. Börje assumed leadership of Ericsson in January 2017. From 2005-2015, he served as CEO of Investor AB, a leading investment company in the Nordics. From 2015 until he became CEO of Ericsson, he served as CEO of Patricia Industries, a division created from Investor AB in 2015 to focus on the portfolio of wholly-owned companies. ndustries, a division within Investor AB (2015-January 15, 2017). Prior to assuming this position in 2015, he was President and CEO of Investor AB between 2005 and 2015. Previous positions also include Head of New Investments and President of Investor Growth Capital Inc. Ekholm has had various positions at Novare Kapital AB and McKinsey & Co Inc. Börje Ekholm holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, as well as a Master of Business Administration, from INSEAD, France. He is a board member of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Alibaba Group and Trimble Inc. Ekholm is also Member of the Board of Trustees of Choate Rosemary Hall and the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce New York. Since 2017, Member of the Stering Committee of the World Economic Forum Digital Communication Governors. Holds Honorary Doctorate at The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Read less
Read more

Mats Pellbäck Scharp

 (
SE
)
Chair, We Don’t Have Time

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.

Read less
Read more

Pär Larshans

 (
SE
)
Co-host, Director of Sustainability, Ragn-Sells

Pär is an award winner in communication, social sustainability, and intrapreneurship, listed multiple times by Trust Across America as one of the Top Thought Leaders in Trust. He is the current appointed expert for setting environmental targets for sea and coastal regions in Sweden and for the coalition group for climate-neutral Swedish industry by 2045.

Read less
Read more

Ingmar Rentzhog

 (
)
CEO and Founder of We Don't Have Time

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.orgRead less
Read more

Bianca Pitt

 (
AU
)
Co-founder SHE Changes Climate

With a background in law, business, media and corporate finance Bianca Pitt is an advisor to the environmental charity sector, an activist and campaigner, and an environmental funder. She is the Founder of the Women of the Environment Network and Co-Founder at SHE Changes Climate. She also serves on a number of boards and advisory committees which include ClientEarth, The Environmental Funders Network, The Sustainable Angle, Action for Conservation and Nature 2030. She and her husband endowed the first Chair for Environmental Sustainability at INSEAD, one of the leading business schools. She is a Fellow of the RSA and TEDx speaker. Bianca lives on a farm in West Sussex, which she and her family are turning into a regenerative venture together with some community farmers and where she enjoys spending as much time in nature as possible.

Read less
Read more

Annika Erikson

 (
US
)
CEO of Articheck

Annika Erikson studied Paper Conservation at UAL, Renaissance Art History in Tuscany, and the Classics in Greece, before working in conservation and collection care at St Paul’s Cathedral, the Royal Horticultural Society, and Tate, where she got the idea in 2010 to create a mobile digital tool to streamline and create an industry standard in condition reports and conservation documentation. After opening a new conservation studio for John Jones, she became an entrepreneur and founded Articheck in 2013. Annika is a member of the Art Innovators Alliance, International Council of Museums, Institute of Conservation, and Extinction Rebellion. She is also a proponent of the Bizot Green Protocol, which states museums should review loan requirements, storage and display conditions, and building design and air conditioning systems with a view to reducing carbon footprints. Annika has lectured at Sotheby’s Institute, NYU, UCL, Christie’s Education, Kingston University, UCLA, City and Guilds, and Korean Art Management.

Read less
Read more

Andrew Murray

 (
UK
)
Senior Environment Manager - Sustainable Business

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.

Read less
Read more

Steven Moore

 (
UK
)
Head of Climate Action, GSMA

Steven Moore is responsible for the Climate Action Programme at the GSMA, the mobile industry association. His role is to provide leadership to support and accelerate the industry transition to Net Zero by 2050. Steven chairs the GSMA Climate Action Taskforce, a global group of more than 60 mobile operator members. He works with the industry on climate policy, strategy and research covering energy efficiency, renewables, supply chain engagement, smart solutions to reduce emissions, and climate adaptation and resilience.

Read less
Read more

Paul Coffey

 (
UK
)
CEO, SCOTLAND 5G CENTRE

Paul became the CEO of the Scotland 5G Centre –the national centre for the acceleration of the deployment and adoption of 5G in Scotland – in May 2020 and has quickly made his mark on the 5G ecosystem. He is passionate about mobile telecommunications and delivering socio-economic benefit to a broad range of stakeholders to enable digital connectivity.

Read less
Read more

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström

 (
)
Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

Prof. Dr. Johan Rockström is the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor at the Institute of Earth and Environmental Science at Potsdam University. Rockström is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues, who led the development of the new Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a leading scientist on global water resources, with about 25 years of experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. Aside from his research helping to guide policy, Rockström consults several governments and business networks. He also acts as an advisor for sustainable development issues at noteworthy international meetings, such as the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC). Supplementary, he chairs the advisory board for the EAT Foundation and the Earth League.

Read less
Read more

Karsten Shein

 (
US
)
Climate scientist and science director of 2 Degrees C

Dr. Karsten Shein is an expert in climate change data and analysis, with a career spanning over 25 years as an assistant professor of meteorology and climatology, climatologist at NASA and NOAA, and director of the Midwestern Regional Climate Center at the University of Illinois. Karsten specializes in climate observations and investigating climate variations and their impacts on communities and natural systems. He is a cofounder of 2DEGREESC, a nonprofit organization connecting people with wearable technology so they may collect and share climate data with science while they enjoy the outdoors. Karsten lives in the US Pacific Northwest with his family and is an avid scuba diver, skier, and nature photographer.

Read less
Read more

Gabrielle Ginér

 (
UK
)
Head of Environmental Sustainability, BT

Gabrielle has managed BT Group’s thought leadership and external advocacy programmes on environmental sustainability since 2009. Her work has spanned developing BT's carbon targets, including BT's 1.5°C science-based target and carbon abatement methodologies for BT’s products and services as well as working with BT’s Procurement division on supplier engagement strategy. Gabrielle represents BT Group in numerous external fora and has chaired the UNFCCC Global Climate Action Awards Advisory Panel. She has previously held roles in public affairs and programme management at BT and has an MA from SAIS Johns Hopkins University and an MSc from University College London.

Read less
Read more

Johan Falk

 (
)
CEO & Co-founder, Exponential Roadmap Initiative

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/Read less
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Hanna Grahn

 (
SE
)
Sustainability Lead, Spotify
Read more

Rainn Wilson

 (
US
)
Actor, comedian, writer, director, producer & Founding Director, Climate Basecamp

Rainn Wilson is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, businessman, and producer. As a committed climate change advocate, Rainn is also an active member of the Arctic Basecamp Advisory Board and founding director of Climate Basecamp. Additionally, Rainn co-founded the website and YouTube channel SoulPancake.

Read less
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Sherri Goodman

 (
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Secretary General, International Military Council on Climate & Security

Sherri Goodman is the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Institute. She is credited with educating a generation of U.S. military and government officials about the nexus between climate change and national security, using her famous coinage, “threat multiplier,” to fundamentally reshape the national discourse on the topic. A former first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) and staff member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Goodman has founded, led, or advised nearly a dozen research organizations on environmental and energy matters, national security, and public policy. She currently serves on the National Academies Advisory Committee to the US Global Change Research Program, and is senior climate advisor to the US Government. She holds degrees from Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Amherst College.

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Marc is leading the Swedish division at E.ON in a shift to only producing and offering 100 % renewable and recycled energy by 2025. The shift is part of the company’s sustainability ambitions aiming to reduce climate emissions by 50 % by 2025. E.ONs Nordic business covers a wide range of activities within energy distribution and energy solutions, including mobility solutions based on both electrification and biogas.

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