Presenting: ‘How To Academy Podcast with Christiana Figueres - Facing the Climate Crisis Live In Conversation with Paul Polman’
Outrage + Optimism
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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The How To Academy Podcast is the biweekly show from London’s home of big thinking. Each episode they take a deep dive into the life and ideas of one of the most significant thinkers, artists, or leaders of our time – from Gordon Brown and Bill Clinton to Mary Beard and Marina Abramovic. This episode features a live, on-stage conversation between Christiana Figueres and the former CEO of Unilever, Paul Polman, on the fight to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to sit down in conversation with |
| 0:09.1 | Paul Pullman, former CEO of Unilever, co-founder of Imagine and current Chair of Imagine. |
| 0:17.0 | It was a live and lively conversation recorded for the How-To Academy podcast and took place at the |
| 0:27.2 | Conduit Club in London. We talked about a very broad range of topics ranging from the technicalities of 1.5 degrees |
| 0:35.7 | centigrades to the transformative power of heart to heart communication. Here is |
| 0:41.4 | the conversation. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks for listening. Hello and welcome to the How To Academy Podcast, the Bi Weekly Show from London's home of Big Thinking, and Vass Krista Dulu. |
| 1:06.2 | At Howto Academy, we've hosted many world leaders over the years from Bill Clinton to Gordon |
| 1:11.7 | Brown, but even among that illustrious number |
| 1:14.5 | our guest on this episode is a singular and iconic figure. |
| 1:18.3 | Christina Fueguese was the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 16, |
| 1:26.2 | and led the negotiation of the historic Paris Accords. |
| 1:30.1 | As a diplomat and advocate, she's the recipient of dozens of awards from government, press and civil society. |
| 1:36.4 | From France's Legion of Honor to a DBE from our own government. |
| 1:40.0 | And she joined us in London a couple of weeks back, where she was due to receive another award from the Royal Society of Arts. |
| 1:47.0 | Before a small live audience gathered at the conduit in Covent Garden, |
| 1:51.0 | Christiania spoke with Paul Pullman, the former CEO of Unilever and himself a distinguished |
| 1:56.1 | figure in the climate movement. Paul worked with the UN to develop the sustainable development |
| 2:00.7 | goals and now works with organizations across the globe to help deliver them. |
| 2:05.0 | Christiania has a podcast series called Outrage and Optimism. |
| 2:09.0 | It's a weekly guide for anyone wanting to make sense of the complexity of the climate conversation, |
| 2:14.1 | co-hosted with Tom Rivet Karnak and Paul Dickinson. |
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