May 31, Stockholm & online
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May 31, Stockholm & online
STHLM+50 Climate Hub
Green Energy
Welcome to our first day of daily broadcasts during the Stockholm+50 week. Today’s theme, Green Energy, is part of the Exponential Race to Zero series— brought to you live from SPACE arena in Stockholm with world leaders like Arunabha Ghosh, Nigel Topping, Johan Rockström, and 1.5°C aligned front-runners like Ørsted, ABB, Alfa Laval, Vattenfall, Liquid Wind, Microsoft and Gurīn Energy.
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This broadcast is part of the STHLM+50 Climate Hub. Full day-by-day program.
We need to halve global emissions and become nature positive by 2030 to tackle the climate emergency. The green energy solutions to halve emissions by 2030 exist and are scaling exponentially. This is the moment to scale green energy and energy efficiency even faster, in order to tackle the energy crisis.
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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.orgCatarina 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.
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.comJohan 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/Owen is a global sustainability writer, analyst and strategist. He is based at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is also a Future Earth Senior Fellow, an Edmund Hillary Fellow (New Zealand) and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. He is interested in big-picture narratives of the past and future of people on Earth (and beyond). He has published in Science and Nature and is a regular contributor to New Scientist. He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and Rethink magazine and is on the editorial board of the Anthropocene magazine.
Boaz Paldi is the United Nations Development Programme Chief Creative Officer. In this role, Boaz oversees UNDP’s advocacy, flagship campaigns, events and partnerships. Most recently Paldi managed the design, rollout and launch of the #dontchooseextinction campaign. Before being appointed to his current role, Paldi led UNDP’s advocacy and communication as well as implementing UNDP’s multimedia strategy and co-founding the Social Good Summit. Prior to joining UNDP, Boaz worked as a TV journalist for 17 years covering conflicts, natural disasters and human-interest stories in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Balkans first for the BBC then the Associated Press and finally joining Reuters where he worked as a TV News Executive Producer for over 12 years.
Nigel Topping, CMG, is a renowned figure in climate action, serving as the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP26, where he launched global initiatives like Race To Zero and Race To Resilience. Nigel is now a Senior Advisor to FSD Africa, Global Ambassador to the High-Level Climate Champions, and an External Member of the Advisory Committee for AXA IM. He also advises governments, financial institutions, and private companies on climate strategy, with a focus on mobilizing climate finance and catalyzing exponential change in climate action. Nigel's commitment to sustainability earned him the CMG distinction in 2022 and recognition as a key leader in shaping a sustainable future.
Filip Engel is Vice President and responsible for Sustainability, Public Affairs, Branding, and Marketing at Ørsted, ranked the most sustainable company in the world by Corporate Knights. Based in Denmark, he has more than a decade experience from Ørsted and has been part of the company’s turnaround from a company based on fossil fuels to a global green energy company.
Julien Gennetier has more than 20 years of experience in a wide range of industrial sectors, from Food and Process Industries to HVAC. Committed to a more energy efficient tomorrow. Today he is heading Alfa Laval’s business unit for gasketed plate heat exchangers.
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.orgArunabha Ghosh is a public policy professional, adviser, author, columnist, and institution builder. As founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, since 2010, he has led CEEW to the top ranks among Asia's leading policy research institutions (8 years in a row); and among the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks. He conceptualized and designed the International Solar Alliance. He conceptualized and is a founding board member of the Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN). Co-author/editor of 4 books and with experience in 45 countries, he previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, UNDP (New York), and WTO (Geneva). In 2018, the UN Secretary-General nominated him to the UN's Committee for Development Policy.
Ulf Hellström is an experienced and customer-oriented senior leader with a passion to develop people and teams. With his modern leadership style, he has demonstrated success in both local and international organizations with special expertise in Marketing & Sales and Account Management, and P&L responsibility. He is passionate about sustainability and believes that the industry “is the place to be” if you want to contribute to a better world.
Nexhi Deti is a technology and sustainability leader with a diverse experience from various roles driving digital transformation, innovation and mapping business needs to technology. He actively leads digitalization for sustainability work, where he continuously pursues innovation which contributes to a better sustainable future.
With a background in renewable energy and a genuine love of nature, Katie Plichta is passionate about expanding energy access in the developing world while safeguarding our environment for a sustainable future. She currently is the Director of Climate Finance and Strategy at d.light.
Assaad Razzouk is the CEO of Gurīn Energy, a renewable energy company headquartered in Singapore developing, financing, building and operating renewable energy projects in North Asia, ASEAN and India. He is a Lebanese-British clean energy entrepreneur, podcaster and commentator based in Singapore. Formerly Chairman and CEO of Sindicatum Renewable Energy, he is currently a director of the Reneum Institute, a Board member of ClientEarth, an Advisory Board member of Eco-Business, a Board member of EB Impact, a member of the International Council of the National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine; and a host of The Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast.
Karol co-leads the climate within IKEA to become climate positive by 2030, by reducing more GHG emissions than the IKEA value chain emits. He is passionate about transforming the business models to be relevant in net-zero carbon society, through integrating decarbonization into cost reduction and building growth by capturing endless opportunities in net-zero economy. His previous positions include working with climate and energy in IKEA supply chain; leading climate and energy in IKEA Poland. Holding M.Sc. from The School for Renewable Energy Science; conducted research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Portugal Program.
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