194. Making a Difference
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
Persephonica
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🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Join Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson this week on Outrage + Optimism as they discuss how best to counter the doom and disinformation in the wake of the recent IPCC synthesis report.
Our special guest this week is Pete Betts, the much loved and highly respected civil servant with over 10 years as Director International climate and energy in the UK Government. Despite receiving a terminal diagnosis, Pete continues to dedicate his time and effort to climate change, specifically highlighting those who stand to suffer the most from its effects are kept in the forefront of decision makers minds as we attempt to face the challenges of climate change.
Pete shares that the two most important questions we believe we should all ask ourselves: “Are you surrounded by people you love and that love you? And did you make a difference?”
How would you respond?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Tom here, so as some of you know, |
| 0:03.4 | Cristiana and I are involved in something called the climate pledge, |
| 0:07.2 | which is a commitment made by a group of companies |
| 0:10.2 | that now are coming together to take shared actions to drive down their emissions |
| 0:14.8 | to reach net zero by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. |
| 0:19.4 | We're very proud to be part of this together with Amazon, |
| 0:22.4 | a series of short videos are being launched that detail the ways in which the companies |
| 0:27.6 | that are members of the pledge are now working together and on their own |
| 0:31.8 | to make real progress towards the goals that we all know are so important. |
| 0:36.1 | And the series is called Future Forward. |
| 0:38.5 | I would thoroughly encourage you to go and look for it, |
| 0:40.9 | it's very inspiring, you can find it by searching Future Forward, |
| 0:43.8 | but what we're going to do now is just play you the audio of the overall trailer for the series. |
| 0:49.6 | So it's a really inspiring series, please do go check it out, |
| 0:53.0 | enjoy this now and we'll go straight into the episode after this. |
| 0:56.8 | Thanks a lot. |
| 0:58.4 | We know as an industry, we are an emitter of carbon. |
| 1:03.2 | If you're in any industry and you're not thinking about climate change, |
| 1:07.4 | I don't know what you're thinking about. |
| 1:12.2 | Our mission is to be net zero by 2040. |
| 1:18.3 | We found partners to put that line in motion and that's what we're doing today. |
| 1:21.9 | Collectively, we can get a lot further than if we continue by ourselves down this path. |
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