design thinking, new learning, carbon economy, sustainability, green cities
Chapter 3 of the BC Business Council’s Outlook 2020 series happened last week in the midst of all the other numerous events scheduled. As a result, I only caught one of the sessions, missing the panel discussion on Resourcing the Future: BC’s Natural Advantage with Peter Woodbridge (who I am very impressed with – he […]
Sub-national governments can influence 50-80% of all climate mitigation strategies (according to UNDP). The power of the subnational governments globally was one of the themes of the Summit. It was very useful to immerse myself in a global discussion on climate change – and to hear what various regions are and are not doing. The […]
Stunning fact: Oceans are not yet on the agenda for Copenhagen (at least they weren’t on Oct 1.09). I notice quite a bit of web traffic on the need for ocean acidification to be front and centre during the Copenhagen discussions. This was a break-out session that ended the day on Thursday. Was slightly disrupted […]
Speakers from all over the world – chaired by Gavin Jennings, Minister for Environment and Climate Change for Victoria, Australia and moderated by Don Paul, the ED of the University of Southern California Energy Institute. I’d like to highlight three speakers: Roberto Formigoni, President, Lombardy Regional Administration, Italy: Talked about the importance of sub-national/regional leadership […]
If global temperatures increase “only” 2 degrees, the World Bank estimates that the cost of adaptation with be $75B -$100B per year until 2050. Whew. Another speaker at the Global Climate Summit 2 “Adaptation Panel” was Michele de Nevers, the Senior Manager of the Environment Department at The World Bank. She stated that for developing countries, […]
The Obama administration was present in full force at the Summit. Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and principal policy advisor to President Obama emphasized the importance of research leadership – the Carbon Capture Research Initiative, China-US collaborations and also Australia-US partnerships developing on the research front. I wondered where […]