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Head is spinning. I walk out of one of the world’s major conferences on sustainability and climate change with very mixed emotions. Gloomy images of extreme weather dramas and predictions of catastrophes mixed with an energetic urge to act and the hope that we, the human race, full of creative
Yesterday at the World Sustainable Development Summit in Delhi, someone talked about revolution. We are in need of a revolution, he said. But who shall be the rebels? Us who are here in Delhi? Someone referred to Gandhi, saying that we need to “be the change that we want to
As with most other conferences, attending the World Sustainability Development Summit has meant linking up with a long list of interesting and like-minded people. For instance I shared lunch with, among others, a dedicated sustainability-blogger: Pankaj Arora runs the ‘Linking Sustainability Blog – Creating Positive Impact of Sustainability in Business
Australia, January 2013. This month in Australia, 250 scientists from around the planet met in Hobart to contribute to the next major report from United Nations’ chief climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Recent heatwaves and raging bushfires in the south of the country have been a
According to a recent Gallup poll, a significant majority of the Danish population – 68 per cent – lost faith that world leaders will be able to solve the problems of global warming over the next 50 years, and nearly as many – 65 per cent – believe that the world in
This was the tv interview which was to become my personal ‘climate wake-up call’. That moment where I realised that the world leaders are not going to solve this CO2-emission and greenhouse-gas problem for us. The interview was with the Danish minister for environment, who had just returned from the
Can we use the powers of Internet to create a virtual ‘Tahrir Square’ for a carbon-awareness revolution? Can we use our computers and the Internet to create new digital meeting places where we – as the Egyptians did in Tahrir Square – signal to one another and to the world