107. Breaking Boundaries, Post Growth & The Future We Choose

107. Breaking Boundaries, Post Growth & The Future We Choose

This week, a live recording of our event “Breaking Boundaries, Post Growth & The Future We Choose” with special guests Johan Rockström and Tim Jackson.

A little bit about our guests:

Johan Rockström is the Director of Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research & Author of Breaking Boundaries, which is both a book and a powerful Netflix documentary.

Tim Jackson is the Director of The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at the University of Surrey and has recently issued his latest book, Post Growth.

Join us for a sobering, gripping, and stubbornly optimistic conversation about the most decisive decade in human history. How can we change the stories we tell ourselves, to engage, inspire and empower people toward climate action?

Hit play and listen in!

__

Book Links:

The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide To The Climate Crisis by Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet by Johan Rockström & Owen Gaffney

Post Growth: Life After Capitalism by Tim Jackson

__

To take meaningful steps to protect what you love from the worst damages of climate change, and to join the Guiness World Record attempt this month, check out the Count Us In Campaign, and decide if we can count you in!

Christiana, Johan and Tim have all been honoured as Hillary Laureates. Tap in to learn more about the work of the Hillary Institute.

Subscribe to our Climate Action Newsletter: Signals Amidst The Noise

__

Thank you to our guests this week, Johan Rockström & Tim Jackson!

Johan Rockström

Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Twitter

PIK

Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Tim Jackson

Author, Director of Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP)

Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook | Instagram | Website

CUSP

Twitter

—

Keep up with Christiana Figueres here:

Instagram | Twitter

Tom Rivett-Carnac:

Instagram | Twitter | LinkedIn

Paul Dickinson!

LinkedIn | Twitter

—

Follow @GlobalOptimism on social media and send us a message!

Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

Don't forget to hit SUBSCRIBE so you don't miss another episode of Outrage + Optimism!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(415)

What World Will They Inherit? Live from Bath Abbey

What World Will They Inherit? Live from Bath Abbey

Before she was Christiana Figueres, architect of the Paris agreement, who was she? What did believe in 2015 that she no longer believes?In June, an event about the next generation of climate leaders w...

15 Okt 42min

How Can a Country Survive Losing Its Land?

How Can a Country Survive Losing Its Land?

A ship rams a canoe. The canoe starts to sink. The ship's crew lean over the rail and offer a loan to repair it.That is how Surangel Whipps Jr., President of Palau, describes climate finance in the Pa...

8 Okt 40min

The Easy Wins Are Gone. What's Actually Next for Net Zero?

The Easy Wins Are Gone. What's Actually Next for Net Zero?

Net Zero was once a radical idea. Now it’s both an accepted global target, and an increasingly toxic political faultline.This week, Tom is back from the UN General Assembly and New York Climate week, ...

1 Okt 40min

Who Runs the World?: Inside the UN’s Secret Leadership Race

Who Runs the World?: Inside the UN’s Secret Leadership Race

The news cameras may be following rising tensions between President Trump and President Pezeshkian of Iran, but deep in the bowels of the United Nations, fifteen countries are about to choose, in priv...

24 Sep 58min

Inside the New Security Thinking: The Weaponisation of Disaster?

Inside the New Security Thinking: The Weaponisation of Disaster?

This summer, extreme heat killed tens of thousands of people across Europe. The number killed by terrorism was, as our guest puts it, very very small. So why are the institutions built to keep people ...

17 Sep 44min

Blocker or Blueprint? India on the World Stage

Blocker or Blueprint? India on the World Stage

At COP26 in Glasgow, India famously asked to change one word in the final text. ‘Phase out’ became ‘phase down’. The COP President fought back tears, as country after country branded this a moment of ...

10 Sep 40min

What’s India Building?: Tales from the Biggest Transition on Earth

What’s India Building?: Tales from the Biggest Transition on Earth

"This will never work in India."That's what Indian truck manufacturers said about electric freight. Now they build the trucks.Something is going on here at a speed the rest of the world has not yet no...

3 Sep 32min

India: Life Inside Delhi's 'Airpocalypse'

India: Life Inside Delhi's 'Airpocalypse'

In Delhi, lung cancer is no longer a smoker’s disease. It’s a breather’s disease.But the most polluted capital on earth sits in a country running five years ahead of its Paris clean power target. In t...

27 Aug 38min

Populært innen Politikk og nyheter

giver-og-gjengen-vg
aftenpodden
aftenpodden-usa
popradet
forklart
stopp-verden
fotballpodden-2
det-store-bildet
rss-gukild-johaug
rss-espen-lee-usensurert
hanna-de-heldige
dine-penger-pengeradet
rss-ness
nokon-ma-ga
aftenbla-bla
e24-podden
bt-dokumentar-2
ta-dokumentar
rss-utenrikskomiteen-med-bogen-og-grasvik
frokostshowet-pa-p5