Why not Georgia, why not! Saying no to everything is not always “the right thing” .. If big companies spend their money on clean energy, steering (slowly) to better solutions, gee, please let them!
Right on with your criticality on ESG but why not use the same criticality to SDGs? There is enough criticism on SDGs and plenty of examples of SDG-washing. The countries that contribute most to climate change often also lead the SDG ranking. If you advocate system change, please realize ESG and SDGs come from the system that causes climate change. I like in a small country that’s speaks 121 languages, and the world enforces the 18 goals for so called development? Can it be more participatory and contextual? Less colonial perhaps?
Excellent lecture. Our climate emergency has now passed a tipping point as evident over the last year and the nay sayers have got no ground to argue. Large corporations need to be held accountable for their actions. They need to stop greenwashing and making token gestures that do nothing to balance their monumental environmental destruction. Consumers need to stop buying their products and governments need to fine them for damaging our planet.
That’s a part of the solution, but several government have done this poorly. Europes current tax policies on sustainability (Cap and Trade) is a great example of where it’s worked. On the other hand, there are approaches such as carbon taxes where funds are misused, the tax negatively impacts individuals, and is a flawed solution. The area where most change occurs is in increasing transparency around pollution through reporting, and making multiple KPI’s that businesses compete on.
I have one question , what does this have to do with children being played with by adults ? Somehow a company has a better ESG score if they do open drag show.
True 😂. I think the only solution is new innovative clean energy, not clean fossil fuel and even not electricity as we know it, maybe ask the military-industrial complex 😉.
It’s a complicated issue, there’s no one size fits all solution. However, introducing these concepts into the approach large companies use is crucial. Over the past we’ve seen moving goalposts on pollution targets, but introducing change into business can hopefully help us reduce the trillions of dollars in future damage our pollution is creating.
Actually mam, with all due respect, the time before you were born saw a half dozen predictions of climate doomsday, and not a single one even remotely came to pass. This isn't the first "climate catastrophe prediction,' I am surprised you haven't studied more history of your own profession.
This is all wrong. Name one climate crisis that was guesstimated and didn't come to pass? And the climate crisis is a slow growing mechanism not one event. Sorry you're not smart 😅
@@ShufflingYogi There is climate change, perhaps a climate problem even, "crisis" is injected for political and financial reasons. Go re-read "an inconvenient truth" by Al Gore, not a word of it came to pass.
I think that Contradictes your own point actually, becuase the fact that there are multiple predictions and which come nearly close enough to passing, Is a testament to how foregone we are and the NEED for change, meaningfull change.
@@Lynx_Tips with all respect, I don't follow the logic. The fact that all predictions, every one, has been grossly off, is proof that the predictions were correct? That doesn't compute.
@@ShufflingYogi 1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975 2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969) 3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000 4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980 5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030 6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070 7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast 8. 1974: Another Ice Age? 9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph) 10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent 11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link) 12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link) 13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s 14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs 15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not) 16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000 17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not) 18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is 19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy 20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024 21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018 22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013 23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World 24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’ 25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014 26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link) 27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’ 28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide 29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources 30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years 31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years 32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s 33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000 34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020 35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010 36. 2006: Super Hurricanes! 37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015 38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985 39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable 40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish 41. 1970s: Killer Bees! Update: I’ve added 9 additional failed predictions (via Real Climate Science) below to make it an even 50 for the number of failed eco-pocalyptic doomsday predictions over the last 50 years. 42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production 43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century 44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum 45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980 46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018 47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020 48. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past 49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming 50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter
What an inspiring speech! Thank you!
She's fantastic, isn't she
One of the best speeches I have ever heard on sustainability
pinpointing the exact truth of what business needs to do for climate change.
Why not Georgia, why not! Saying no to everything is not always “the right thing” ..
If big companies spend their money on clean energy, steering (slowly) to better solutions, gee, please let them!
Right on with your criticality on ESG but why not use the same criticality to SDGs? There is enough criticism on SDGs and plenty of examples of SDG-washing. The countries that contribute most to climate change often also lead the SDG ranking. If you advocate system change, please realize ESG and SDGs come from the system that causes climate change. I like in a small country that’s speaks 121 languages, and the world enforces the 18 goals for so called development? Can it be more participatory and contextual? Less colonial perhaps?
One of the best TED talks!!
Excellent lecture. Our climate emergency has now passed a tipping point as evident over the last year and the nay sayers have got no ground to argue. Large corporations need to be held accountable for their actions. They need to stop greenwashing and making token gestures that do nothing to balance their monumental environmental destruction. Consumers need to stop buying their products and governments need to fine them for damaging our planet.
Love her
Excellent
So what are we suggesting here? Government coercion through carbon & sustainability based taxes?
That’s a part of the solution, but several government have done this poorly. Europes current tax policies on sustainability (Cap and Trade) is a great example of where it’s worked. On the other hand, there are approaches such as carbon taxes where funds are misused, the tax negatively impacts individuals, and is a flawed solution. The area where most change occurs is in increasing transparency around pollution through reporting, and making multiple KPI’s that businesses compete on.
Giving this speech inside air conditioned room and driving petrol car to commute 😂
the GRI standards brought me here
I have one question , what does this have to do with children being played with by adults ? Somehow a company has a better ESG score if they do open drag show.
But still you did not give a solution 😂
True 😂. I think the only solution is new innovative clean energy, not clean fossil fuel and even not electricity as we know it, maybe ask the military-industrial complex 😉.
It’s a complicated issue, there’s no one size fits all solution. However, introducing these concepts into the approach large companies use is crucial. Over the past we’ve seen moving goalposts on pollution targets, but introducing change into business can hopefully help us reduce the trillions of dollars in future damage our pollution is creating.
Actually mam, with all due respect, the time before you were born saw a half dozen predictions of climate doomsday, and not a single one even remotely came to pass. This isn't the first "climate catastrophe prediction,' I am surprised you haven't studied more history of your own profession.
This is all wrong. Name one climate crisis that was guesstimated and didn't come to pass? And the climate crisis is a slow growing mechanism not one event. Sorry you're not smart 😅
@@ShufflingYogi There is climate change, perhaps a climate problem even, "crisis" is injected for political and financial reasons. Go re-read "an inconvenient truth" by Al Gore, not a word of it came to pass.
I think that Contradictes your own point actually, becuase the fact that there are multiple predictions and which come nearly close enough to passing, Is a testament to how foregone we are and the NEED for change, meaningfull change.
@@Lynx_Tips with all respect, I don't follow the logic. The fact that all predictions, every one, has been grossly off, is proof that the predictions were correct? That doesn't compute.
@@ShufflingYogi 1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
8. 1974: Another Ice Age?
9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
36. 2006: Super Hurricanes!
37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
41. 1970s: Killer Bees!
Update: I’ve added 9 additional failed predictions (via Real Climate Science) below to make it an even 50 for the number of failed eco-pocalyptic doomsday predictions over the last 50 years.
42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
48. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter