03/11 – Pursuing Positive Tipping Points

Jeremy Oppenheim and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve

In the context of climate action, what do we mean by positive tipping points, and why is it important to recognise and work towards them? We speak with SYSTEMIQ Co-Founder Jeremy Oppenheim and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Co-President of the Club of Rome, about the potential that can be unleashed through positive tipping points and how to engineer them in our pursuit of net-zero.

04/11 – Just Transition & Human Rights

Yasmine Ahmed and Tishiko King

What do we really mean by a just transition, what role does the law have to play, and how can we place indigenous knowledge at the forefront of climate decision making?

In this episode, Paul van Zyl is joined by Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director of Human Rights Watch, and Tishiko King, a Torres Strait Islander and campaigner, to delve into these vital questions. They discuss what governments should be doing to protect the rights of at-risk populations, the Torres Strait islands groundbreaking court case against the Australian government, and why having a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a human right.

This episode is produced in collaboration with DLA Piper, and recorded at The Conduit Studio at COP26, as part of a series exploring the role of the law in responding to climate change.

04/11 – Leadership in the Transition to Net-Zero

Faustine Delasalle and Gonzalo Muñoz 

Bold and visionary leadership is required if we are to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. But what is keeping corporate and policy leaders from acting more boldly? And how do we create the right conditions that will trigger these positive tipping points?

With so many vested political and economic interests in fossil fuels, conventional farming, and other harmful industries, Faustine Delasalle (Director, Energy Transitions Commission) and Gonzalo Munoz (Co Founder,  TriCiclos, SistemaB and Polkura) discuss the kind of business and political leadership that can help transform economies in line with climate targets.

05/11 | Earthrise x VivoBarefoot: A conversation with Galahad Clark & Finn Harries

Galahad Clark and Finn Harries

What would bring a man from a dynasty of cobblers and an influential activist filmmaker together? Join Galahad and Finn for a discussion about how we should allow our feet to reconnect us literally and figuratively to the Earth. They’ll explain what doing so could mean for our physical and environmental health.

05/11 | Climate Litigation

Alice Garton

Increasingly the climate lobby is moving from the streets to the courtroom – but how can climate litigation accelerate government policies for a zero emissions future?

In this episode, Paul van Zyl is joined by Alice Garton, Director of Global Legal Strategy at the Foundation for International Law for the Environment, to explore litigation and human rights law as a tool for climate action.

This episode is produced in collaboration with DLA Piper, and recorded at The Conduit Studio at COP26, as part of a series exploring the role of the law in responding to climate change.

05/11 | Reducing the Cost of Going Green

Lord Nicholas Stern

As finance starts to move towards clean solutions, the cost of capital will decrease. Are governments and financial institutions doing enough to incentivise this and make investing in old industries less attractive?

Lord Nicholas Stern (Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change) considers where finance is flowing and explain the economic, political, and societal conditions that will pivot capital towards green businesses.

08/11 | Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Technology

Andreas Gunst 

As the buzz around green hydrogen gathers steam, Andreas Gunst, Partner at DLA Piper, joins Paul to discuss its potential as a clean and renewable energy source, the latest developments in carbon capture, utilisation and storage technology, and the ways in which government and business must collaborate to accelerate the transition to a decarbonised energy sector. 

09/11 | Michael Sheldrick (Global Citizen) in conversation with Alice Aedy (Earthrise)

Michael Sheldrick & Alice Aedy

Michael Sheldrick, Co-Founder and Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer at Global Citizen. Michael oversees Global Citizens’ international advocacy campaigns including those in support of climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. He talks with Alice Aedy, a documentarian , campaigner, and Co-Founder of Earthrise Studio, about creating landmark campaigns, building new platforms, climate justice and just transitions, and the obligations of developed countries in the pursuit of net-zero.

10/11 | Blue Economy

Kristin Rechberger, Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Yvonne Suter, Matt McLuckie, Sam Teicher

Tune in to Conduit Studio, broadcasting live throughout COP26 as we explore thought leadership with Julius Baer on how we can transition towards a sustainable economy.

Together we will discuss the importance of the blue economy and financing the blue future. Julius Baer will share how they are preparing investors for the journey to net zero and the role responsible wealth management has to play in addressing climate challenges.

10/11 | Gary White (water.org) in conversation with Paul van Zyl (The Conduit)

Gary White & Paul van Zyl

As Co-founder and CEO of Water.org and WaterEquity, Gary White leads the organisations to create and execute market-driven solutions to the global water crisis. Gary’s entrepreneurial vision drives innovations in the way water and sanitation projects are delivered and financed, innovations that now serve as a model in the water and sanitation sector. From a makeshift office in his home, Gary has led Water.org to become an international organisation with more than 100 people changing lives in 11 countries around the world.

11/11 | Film Screening: Time and the Seashell

The Conduit & The Climate Crisis Film Festival

A young Indigenous boy imagines his future while listening to the sounds of a seashell. An Indigenous man recalls his past listening to the same shell. The man remembers birds and fireflies in his childhood, that are no longer there. The short film is invites an audience to consider past, present and future of a changing landscape and vanishing biodiversity.

The Climate Crisis Film Festival (CCFF) is the UK’s (and world’s) first climate action film festival and one of the first organisations in the UK to have championed an intersectional environmental angle since inception in 2019.

11/11 | Film Screening: To Calm the Pig Inside

The Conduit & The Climate Crisis Film Festival

Ang Pagpakalma sa Unos (To Calm the Pig Inside) is a contemplative film that ponders the effects a typhoon leaves on a small town. Myths are woven to try to understand how the people cope with the devastation and trauma. A girl divulges bits and pieces of her own memory of her grandmother and mother to tie in the experiences she felt visiting this ravaged town.

The Climate Crisis Film Festival (CCFF) is the UK’s (and world’s) first climate action film festival and one of the first organisations in the UK to have championed an intersectional environmental angle since inception in 2019.

11/11 | Film Screening: Hawaiian Soul

The Conduit & The Climate Crisis Film Festival

Amidst the 1970s native rights movement, George Helm, a Hawaiian activist and musician must gain the support of kūpuna (community elders) from Maui to aid in the fight of protecting the precious neighboring island of Kahoʻolawe from military bombing.

The Climate Crisis Film Festival (CCFF) is the UK’s (and world’s) first climate action film festival and one of the first organisations in the UK to have championed an intersectional environmental angle since inception in 2019.

11/11 | Film Screening of Haulover: Separated

The Conduit & The Climate Crisis Film Festival

Haulover is a small town located in the northern Caribbean country of Nicaragua. In November 2020, two hurricanes tore the community in two and destroyed its infrastructure. Now, villagers must decide between going back and rebuilding their homes from the rubble despite the risks or starting a new life elsewhere, leaving their life by the sea.

The Climate Crisis Film Festival (CCFF) is the UK’s (and world’s) first climate action film festival and one of the first organisations in the UK to have championed an intersectional environmental angle since inception in 2019.

11/11 | Reducing the Cost of Going Green

Anne Simpson & Katherine Stodulka

As finance starts to move towards clean solutions, the cost of capital will decrease. Are governments and financial institutions doing enough to incentivise this and make investing in old industries less attractive?

Anne Simpson (Managing Investment Director, CalPERS) and Katherine Stodulka (Partner, Sustainable Finance for SYSTEMIQ and Director, Blended Finance Taskforce) consider where finance is flowing and explain the economic, political, and societal conditions that will pivot capital towards green businesses.

12/11 | The Policymaker Gap

HRH Jaime de Bourbon de Parme, Ida Auken, & Robyn Scott

To stay on track for 1.5 degrees warming, we need more ambitious policies, implemented much more quickly. In this episode, Paul talks to policy experts about how governments need to adapt their strategies for urgent climate mitigation, the unique challenges that policy makers face across the globe, and how we can ensure that bold new policies are implemented effectively. His guests are HRH Jaime de Bourbon de Parme (Dutch climate envoy), Ida Auken (former Minister for the Environment in Denmark), & Robyn Scott (CEO of Apolitical).

12/11 | Food and Agriculture – Ripest For Change?

Jeremy Leggett & Talia Smith

Global transformation of food and land use systems is needed now more than ever to improve food security, ensure healthier diets, and safeguard biodiversity. Central to achieving this – and unlocking trillions in society returns each year – is protecting nature and addressing food and land use systems’ contribution to the climate crisis.

Social entrepreneur and writer Jeremy Leggett and Talia Smith of the Food and Land Use Commission will take us through how food and land use systems can accelerate us towards positive tipping points.

13/11 | The Mainstreaming of Activism

Jerome Foster II

Are we, the average citizen, the most powerful trigger of tipping points? With the public fast acknowledging that climate change is a grave and imminent threat, can this awareness coupled with activism trigger rapid changes in government policy and to markets to the benefit of people and planet?

19-year-old Jerome Foster II is an environmental activist, voting rights advocate, and emerging technology engineer. He sits on President Biden’s White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council and serves as executive director of OneMillionOfUs, which educates and mobilises young people to register and turn out to vote. He joins Paul van Zyl to talk about social justice, environmental justice, and creating movements.

tbc | Reflections on COP26, and the Path Ahead

Speakers tbc

COPs don’t solve everything, but they can create and accelerate momentum. Now that COP26 is over, we speak with experts to reflect on what was achieved, and what needs to happen to in order for COP26 to be remembered as a pivotal moment of human progression.

We hear which positive tipping points now seem the most likely to occur fastest, and which ones need the most investment and attention to make the largest impacts.

tbc | Impact Investing in the Blue Economy

Chip Cunliffe & Nicolas Baumgartner 

Tune in to Conduit Studio, broadcasting live throughout COP26 as we explore thought leadership with Julius Baer on how we can transition towards a sustainable economy.

Together we will discuss the importance of the blue economy and financing the blue future. Julius Baer will share how they are preparing investors for the journey to net zero and the role responsible wealth management has to play in addressing climate challenges.