2 The Energy War and Climate Breakdown - Road to COP 27

As we face an urgent ecological crisis, a group of experts discuss whether the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development goals are a help, or a hindrance, in rising to the challenge. According to the UN, "The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests." Critics argue that the UN SDGs are not focused enough in tackling the singular issue of climate breakdown, and at worst, have created a business opportunity for many which has led to distraction and no real action. The central question is - are the SGDs dead, fit for purpose, or simply in need of an update. This was the third event in Scientists Warning Europe’s Road to COP27 series. Panelists:  Ed Gemmell - Managing Director of Scientists Warning Europe,  Naomi Sheehan - Sustainable Development Scientist & Climate Advisor  Carter Dillard - Fair Start Movement Policy Advisor  Victoria Harvey - PhD researcher, Climate Change at University East Anglia  Steve Pipe - Author and former UK Entrepreneur of The Year   This is a recording of an online panel discussion held 15 November, 2022. See the video at: https://youtu.be/JLvQqSaaQLU  At COP26 Scientists Warning Europe launched a new paper, the 'Scientists Warnings into Action'. It expanded on the six stressors identified in the previous three warnings of Nature, Population, Economy, Food and Pollutants and Energy. This fourth great scientists Warning has already been signed by over 3,000 scientists and is currently collecting more signatures by graduates in any science.   LINKS: Fair Start Movementhttps://fairstartmovement.org/ Justice as a Fair Start in Life – by Carter Dillardhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62140570-justice-as-a-fair-start-in-life Climahttps://climauk.com/ Our Time to Rise – by Steve Pipehttps://www.ourtimetorise.global/ Scientists Warning Europe presents and promotes science endorsed solutions which will lead to a just transition for our World to a sustainable and equitable future. Learn more, sign up for updates, and support our work at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk This podcast series is made possible through the generous help of the GrowthBusters podcast about limits to growth. MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ Video of this conversation https://youtu.be/JLvQqSaaQLU All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

Cost of living crisis, global conflict, and climate breakdown - is a shift in our energy systems the solution to all of this? What does the recent Russia/Ukraine conflict tell us about our energy security? Is renewable energy the answer, or is there more to the equation? What should our energy systems look like in these times of unprecedented global change? Energy experts from science and industry discuss the changes that are rapidly required to secure humanity's safety on a local, national, and international level. Panelists also offer suggestions of what we can each do, as individuals, to protect our access to energy.  Panelists: Ed Gemmell - Managing Director of Scientists Warning Europe,  Climate Politician Professor Chris Rhodes - Director of Fresh-lands Environmental Actions Keila Abreu - Development Director of Electric Land Andy Caulton - Founder and CEO of Hope Energy Kayla Ente MBE - CEO of Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative (BHESCo) This session was hosted by Scientists Warning Europe as part of their Road to COP27 series: Energy and the Climate Crisis. Scientists Warning Europe presents and promotes science endorsed solutions which will lead to a just transition for our World to a sustainable and equitable future. Learn more, sign up for updates, and support our work at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk This podcast series is made possible through the generous help of the GrowthBusters podcast about limits to growth. MORE INFO: Fresh-lands Environmental Actions (Chris Rhodes)http://www.rba.co.uk/cjr/index.htm Electric Land (Keila Abreu)https://electricland.co.uk/ Hope Energy (Andy Caulton) https://www.hopeenergy.co.uk/ Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative https://bhesco.co.uk/ World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ Video of this conversation https://youtu.be/okuetPh6qBY All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

What should leadership look like in these times of unprecedented global change? How can successful leadership mitigate a climate catastrophe? Where are we now – on the road to ruin or is there hope on the horizon? Scientists Warning Europe convened this panel of experts to hear what we need to see from leadership – at all levels – to respond to the climate crisis. At COP26 Scientists Warning Europe launched a new paper, the 'Scientists Warnings into Action'. It expanded on the six stressors identified in the previous three warnings of Nature, Population, Economy, Energy, Food and Pollutants and added an essential seventh element: 'Leadership'. This fourth great scientists Warning has already been signed by over 3,000 scientists and is currently collecting more signatures by graduates in any science on the way to COP27.  This episode features two of the authors of the paper. Along with other eminent friends of Scientists Warning Europe, they present and review the vital element of Leadership and look at what leaders should be doing at the local, regional, national and global level. The panel will also examine the question of what we can each do as individuals to ensure effective climate leadership. Panelists: Ed Gemmell - Managing Director of Scientists Warning Europe, Climate Politician Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti - Political Scientist and Professor at University of Pretoria, Member of Italian Parliament, Co-Author of the Scientists Warnings into Action paper Dr. Victoria Hurth - Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge Judge Business School This episode is the first in our Road to COP27 series, a rolling conference of webinars, events, workshops and inspiring activities designed to drive real action at COP27. In this series we’ll hear from World renowned scientists, politicians, climate activists, business leaders and community organisers who are all committed to inspiring action on local to global levels.   LINKS: Video of this panel discussionhttps://youtu.be/PWk8IJm5gH4 Warnings to Action: Mobilising Humanity (film shown in introduction to this panel)https://youtu.be/YQYLtGVar2A Road to COP27 eventshttps://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/cop27 Scientists Warning Europe presents and promotes science endorsed solutions which will lead to a just transition for our World to a sustainable and equitable future. Learn more, sign up for updates, and support our work at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk This podcast series is made possible through the generous help of the GrowthBusters podcast about limits to growth. MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

Climate activist and hunger-striker Angus Rose struck for 37 days without food, stationed outside the Houses of Parliament. He ended his hunger strike after being given a promise that all MPs will be offered a briefing on the climate emergency by UK Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Patrick Vallance. He shares his rationale and experience in this May, 2022 conversation with Scientists Warning Europe Managing Director Ed Gemmell.  LINKS: Angus's letters and news updateshttps://angusro.github.io/ Follow Angus on Twitterhttps://twitter.com/Angus_Climate Video of this conversationhttps://youtu.be/d2flmcWlM2E Scientists Warning Europe presents and promotes science endorsed solutions which will lead to a just transition for our World to a sustainable and equitable future. Learn more, sign up for updates, and support our work at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk This podcast series is made possible through the generous help of the GrowthBusters  podcast about limits to growth. MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

“The scientific world has researched and reported, peer-reviewed and presented report after report after report. Most scientists are quite frankly fed up.... Now is the time for moral courage and real leadership.” These are among the words of Ed Gemmell as he moderated this press conference at COP26. At this event, Scientists Warning Europe premiered its new film, Warning into Action: Mobilising Humanity. Gemmell was joined by Dr. Victoria Hurth, Fellow of University of Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and Dr. Paul Behrens, researcher and science communicator at Leiden University and author of The Best of Times, The Worst of Times.  We also hear from authors of the newest World Scientists paper, World Scientists’ Warning into Action, Local to Global, and signatories to a letter sent to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Italy Prime Minister Mario Draghi, as hosts of COP26, signed by 28 top climate scientists around the world: Kevin Anderson, Phoebe Barnard, Professor Chris Rhodes, Professor William Moomaw, Professor Stefano Tibaldi, Professor Chris Rapley, Philip Weber, and Professor Stuart Parkinson.  LINKS:  Video of this Press Conferencehttps://youtu.be/Owegop5VqEo The film: Warnings to Action: Mobilising Humanityhttps://youtu.be/YQYLtGVar2A  World Scientists’ Warning into Action, Local to Global - published in Science Progresshttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f1ae1adb73f3a2bde426178/t/61a4d3db72d9076cd4160b57/1638192094888/Barnard+et+al+%282021%29+World+scientists%27+warnings+into+action%2C+local+to+global.pdf Letter to Boris Johnson and Mario Draghihttps://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/discover/our-letter-to-prime-ministers Scientists Warning Europe presents and promotes science endorsed solutions which will lead to a just transition for our World to a sustainable and equitable future. Learn more, sign up for updates, and support our work at  https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk This podcast series is made possible through the generous help  of the GrowthBusters podcast about limits to growth. MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the late Stuart Scott, who passed away on July 15, 2021 after a long battle with cancer. Scott’s efforts to put attention on World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: Second Notice, led to the formation of the World Scientists’ Warning Foundation. This is audio from a press conference hosted by Scientists Warning Europe at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland in November of 2021. From the Foundation’s website:  “Stuart H. Scott was an American environmentalist and educator known for his creativity in communicating the urgency and severity of the impact of the current ‘growth’ economic system on climate, habitability of Earth, and society. Scott was the ultimate ‘systems thinker’, with training in a variety of scientific fields, work experience in finance, education and information systems, as well as extensive investigative immersion in Nature, cognitive psychology and long-time presentation skills. In 2018, Scott presented with Greta Thunberg and her father Svante Thunberg, to COP-24 in Poland, from which Greta’s unwavering clear message to world leaders was amplified and her position cemented as the preeminent spokesperson for youth and future generations. Scientists’ Warning Foundation is grateful for the colossal effort that Stuart Scott invested in founding ScientistsWarning.org. MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ Video of this conversation https://youtu.be/ACyjH4NPkaY All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

Our food system, as run today, is a major cause of the climate crisis. “We need to change production, we need to change consumption, and we need to change everything in the middle,” according to Sunniva Sorby. “Peak livestock” should be among our goals. Food systems and the climate crisis are discussed in this press conference held at COP26 in November of 2021. The panel includes Dr. Helen Harwatt, senior research fellow in the Energy, Environment and Resources programme at Chatham House, and arctic ice explorer Sunniva Sorby, co-founder of Hearts in the Ice, a social media project aimed at engagement on climate change. Scientists Warning Europe Managing Director Ed Gemmell moderates the discussion. MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ Chatham Househttps://www.chathamhouse.org Hearts in the Icehttps://www.heartsintheice.com Video of this conversation https://youtu.be/OSWseHqDzKA All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

Local government is at the heart of climate action. Local governments are closest to the citizens and need to pick up the pace of action that is far too slow at the national level. Among topics discussed are Boris Johnson’s COP26 opening speech. Scientists Warning Europe Managing Director Ed Gemmell led this conversation just outside the plenary room at COP 26 with Marianne Overton, vice chair of the Local Government Association and Amelia Womack, deputy leader of the Green Party of England. MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ Green Party of England https://policy.greenparty.org.uk/  Local Government Association https://www.local.gov.uk/lga-independent  Video of this conversation https://youtu.be/E6jQ4e9zIxE All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

Nature is in freefall decline. Complex, interdependent ecosystem processes - pollination, natural flood control and water purification – have been severely depleted by humanity. Some of the most major tropical and temperate forests are now carbon sources, instead of sinks. The biodiversity crisis extends to the seas. Nature’s decline, and what we need to do for it to recover, were the subjects of this press conference hosted by Scientists Warnings Europe at COP 26 in November of 2021. At the conference we heard from Julia Davies, founder of We Have The POWER and Ali Tabrizi, director of the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy.  MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290 Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ We Have the Power https://wehavethepower.org/ Seaspiracy https://www.seaspiracy.org/ Video of this conversation https://youtu.be/E6jQ4e9zIxE All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.

Tim Jackson discusses the latest World Scientists Warning into Action paper and his paper, Net Zero Sooner, addressing the economics of carbon budgets. These are remarks made at the Scientists Warning Into Action press conference at COP26. Jackson is a noted British ecological economist and professor of sustainable development at the University of Surrey. Learn more about the Scientists Warning Into Action paper and sign it here:  https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/signature MORE INFO: World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290   World Scientists Recommend Urgent Actions for Survival of Civilizationhttps://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/discover/world-scientists-recommend-urgent-actions-for-survival-of-civilization Zero Carbon Sooner – by Tim Jackson https://timjackson.org.uk/zero-carbon-sooner-update/ Scientists Warning Europehttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/ All Three World Scientists’ Warningshttps://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope If you’re interested in starting up a Scientists Warning group on your continent, please reach out to us at https://www.scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/contact GrowthBusters podcast http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Don't miss an episode. Follow wherever you listen.