Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time. Rising to the challenge, NYT-bestselling author Paul Hawken, who has long been a leading voice in the climate movement, has developed a radical new and practical approach to tackling climate change.

His new book Regeneration offers a blueprint to ending the climate crisis in just one generation. It’s a book that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation. Hawken contests that solutions to the climate crisis can directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded, and that initiatives need to go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting.

Paul was joined by climate activist Clover Hogan and corporate sustainability champion John Elkington to outline and discuss exactly what those radical solutions are, and what needs to happen to make them a reality.

Speakers:

Paul Hawken is an author and activist. He has founded successful, ecologically-conscious businesses, and consulted with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has written seven books including four national bestsellers: The Next Economy, Growing a Business, and The Ecology of Commerce, and Blessed Unrest. The Ecology of Commerce was voted as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Amory Lovins, has been referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who called it one of the most important books in the world at that time. He has served on the board of many environmental organisations including the Center for Plant Conservation, Shelburne Farms, Trust for Public Land, Conservation International, and the National Audubon Society.

Clover Hogan has been on this planet 22 years, and spent the past decade trying to save it. Climate activist, researcher on eco-anxiety, and the founding Executive Director of Force of Nature (a youth non-profit mobilising mindsets for climate action), Clover has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities on sustainability, consulted within the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, and supported students in over 50 countries to realise their power as changemakers. Clover has taken the stage with corporate giants including the CEOs of P&G, Twitter, and YouTube; alongside global changemakers such as Dr. Jane Goodall and Dr. Vandana Shiva; and interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama. Her TED talk What to do when Climate Change feels Unstoppable has been viewed +1 million times.

John Elkington is one of the founders of the global sustainability movement, an experienced advisor to business, and a highly regarded thought leader and keynote speaker. In 2008, The Evening Standard named John among the ‘1000 Most Influential People’ in London, describing him as “a true green business guru”, and as “an evangelist for corporate social and environmental responsibility long before it was fashionable”. In 2009, a CSR International survey of the Top 100 CSR leaders placed John fourth: after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late Anita Roddick of the Body Shop. John has addressed over 1,000 conferences around the world. He was a faculty member of the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008. He has served on over 70 boards and advisory boards, has won numerous awards, and is the author or co-author of 20 books. John’s Cannibals with Forks, published in 1997, popularised his ‘Triple Bottom Line’ concept (people, planet, profit) and laid the foundations for sustainable business strategy. John co-founded Volans to span the yawning divides between what the sustainability industry was doing and what needs to be done. As the company enters its second decade, John is on a mission to multiply Volans’ impact.