Climate Change - The Way to Begin

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Christiana Figueres says companies need to take responsibility for our social world. She argues that they can't do it as amazon, until you move as google or apple. We saw the same thing with tech company's actions on coronovirus. The companies didn't want to act by themselves on contact tracing. So we need a world where all the te companies move together with the climate pledge. And that's what we need to do next.

[This episode originally aired May 21, 2020] Internationally-recognized global leader on climate change Christiana Figueres argues that the battle against global threats like climate change begins in our own heads. She became the United Nations’ top climate official, after she had watched the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit collapse “in blood, in screams, in tears.” In the wake of that debacle, Christiana began performing an act of emotional Aikido on herself, her team, and eventually delegates from 196 nations. She called it “stubborn optimism.” It requires a clear and alluring vision of a future that can supplant the dystopian and discouraging vision of what will happen if the world fails to act. It was stubborn optimism, she says, that convinced those nations to sign the first global climate framework, the Paris Agreement. In this episode, we explore how a similar shift in Silicon Valley’s vision could lead 3 billion people to take action for the planet.