That’s the climate crisis right there.
There were, it has to be said, a few corporate platitudes to be heard droning from the main stage. But mostly I heard lively critical discussion among genuinely optimistic, energetic, open-minded people. Some ideas – such as the Burkana Two-Loops model – seemed pretty leftfield at first, then less so when I managed to drop my biases for a minute.
Big cheese financiers responded earnestly when challenged about limited supply chain data that reveals nothing about exploitation in the global south.
The most famous and mainstream member of the Blue Earth ‘relentless positivity’ brigade was Deborah Meaden, who – unsurprisingly for a Dragon – thinks that governments are too slow and therefore businesses have to lead.
Most of all, she seemed upbeat, undeterred by the uncertainty of it all. We need role models like that. We can be like that!
There’s a lot to do. But there are also clear places to focus now.
We’re helping the commercial arm of a tier-one bank to improve the tool that it provides to help SMEs get to net zero. Its research suggests that around 90% of organisations are yet to begin their net-zero journey. We can do something about that!
Instead of being daunted by wicked problems, let’s look again at this definition:
