252. Mission 2025: It's Time For Leaders To Lead (Recorded Live!)
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
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🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, we recorded live from London Climate Action Week at the Mission 2025 launch event. Tom Rivett-Carnac was joined by guests Andrew Steer (Bezos Earth Fund), Adair Turner (ETC), Isabelle Noero (Earthrise), Hein Schumacher (Unilever), Tamsin Ballard (PRI), Karen Pflug (INGKA Group) and Nigar Arpadarai (COP29 Champion). Hear their conversations about how to act on climate with speed and scale.
Moving faster on tackling the climate crisis is too difficult, too unpopular or too expensive, right? Wrong! This week a new high-ambition coalition of business, mayors, investors, health leaders, athletes, youth activists, scientists and citizens was launched to call on governments to move even faster on climate action. Over 20 organisations have joined Mission 2025, to say: "We are ready to embolden governments to set more ambitious plans and accelerate implementation. We know this can unlock trillions in private investment to protect our nature, scale cheap renewable energy, support industries to compete in a low carbon economy, and safeguard living standards equitably for our people." Mission 2025 is a much needed effort to unlock the momentum needed for this transition to happen at the speed and scale required, and with the equity deserved. Because holding the line on 1.5°C is not an aspirational target – it is a scientific imperative.
We hope you enjoy this lively conversation!
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GUESTS
Andrew Steer, President and CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund
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Lord Adair Turner, Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission
Isabella Noero, Head of Collaborative Partnerships at Earthrise Studio
Hein Schumacher, CEO of Unilever
Tamsin Ballard, Chief Initiatives Officer at PRI
Karen Pflug, Chief Sustainability Officer at Ingka Group
Nigar Arpadarai, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP29 Azerbaijan
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:03.0 | Outrage and optimism I'm Fiona McRaeae |
| 0:13.8 | I'm Tom Riffic Carnac and I'm Fiona McRae and we're live from London Climate |
| 0:18.6 | Action Week. Today we're going to be talking about Mission 2025, what it is, why it's needed, and how you can get involved. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:30.0 | All right. We're now going to have some quick-fire discussions about why this matters, how it's all going to take all of us and to start us off we're going to hear about |
| 0:54.7 | Mission 2025. Okay so I'm going to introduce this first speaker and I'm going to take a |
| 0:59.7 | moment to do so. Twelve years ago one of the best decisions of my professional life was made |
| 1:06.2 | when I hired this man to come and work in the UNFCCC strategy function in the months |
| 1:11.1 | leading up to the Paris Agreement. The UN bureaucrats were not ready |
| 1:14.3 | for the man that arrived. The English gentleman that walked down the corridors in |
| 1:17.8 | finely tailored double-breasted suits with exquisitely paired pocket squares, and he would invite them to drink pink |
| 1:24.8 | gins at 4.30 on a Wednesday afternoon, but they fell in love with him and he proved to be |
| 1:29.2 | incredibly effective. And we're now delighted he's leading the Groundswell |
| 1:32.7 | program a partnership between global optimism the Bezocir Fund and the |
| 1:36.8 | System Change Lab please welcome Matthew Phillips. |
| 1:40.3 | True to form I am wearing a double-breasted suit. |
| 1:43.8 | Where's the pocket square? |
| 1:44.8 | Where's the pocket square? |
| 1:45.8 | So I'm here to talk a little bit about Mission 2025. |
| 1:49.4 | It's really a coalition, a grand alliance of courageous leaders of mayors, governors, businesses, |
| 1:57.6 | citizens, cultural leaders that are going to rally behind governments as they kind of |
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