In the run-up to COP21 many of my fellow Climate Reality Leaders hosted a series of articles, talks, individual commitments as they developed best practices for companies who wanted to participate.
I was asked to participate with Wikistage in Paris, this was the part i played along with able assistance from the team of Malmo University the American School of Art and the children of Paris.
Thank you and this was just the start as the UK Climate Reality Leaders are taking the next step and working with our Partners in Europe in raising the banner for change
12. www.fresh-interactive.co.uk
Fresh Interactive –
Stand Up and be Counted project
90 to 97% certainty rates
are good odds in
any business
Recognizing climate risk – We need to mobilise and
respond to this potentially extinction level event.
Keith Farmer
CEO Fresh Interactive
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17. 4 Ways to be Socially Responsible &
Prosperous
1. Establish YourSocial Mission
2. Keep YourMission Aligned
3. Build a Community
4. Don’t Forget YourTeam
18. Solving the climate crisis
is within our grasp, but
we need people like you
to
STAND UP AND ACT.
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AL GORE
Founder and Chairman,
The Climate Reality Project
19. actlocal.eu
We believe that everybody can make a
difference when it comes to Global
Warming, we just need to all push the
right way.
If we start thinking Globally & Act Locally,
We are one step closer to the Goal
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” Tobias Witting, Sebastian Grute, Carl Edberg
Slide 1: (15 SECONDS) STAND UP AND BE COUNTED - How do we reach our goal?
A Call to Action and an Invitation to Partnership
Why I am here – My Mum and Homework – Could do better
New Technologies and Business models;
HAND GESTURES POLTICIANS
Slide 1: (15 SECONDS) STAND UP AND BE COUNTED - How do we reach our goal?
A Call to Action and an Invitation to Partnership
Why I am here – My Mum and Homework – Could do better
New Technologies and Business models;
HAND GESTURES POLTICIANS
Slide 2: (30 SECONDS) Paris & COP21 – The road to Paris
Pressure on governments to tackle climate change and leading up to COP21
Holding OURSELVES to account solutions to climate challenges
Justice advocates calling on governments to tackle climate change head-on.
HAND GESTURES POINTING FINGER
Slide 3: (1 Minute) Climate change - Be a catalyst for change
Emotional leadership: Think Global Act Local – direct impact on Cause & Effect
Developing potential: Reality & creating shared syringe’s that inflame from within.
Working smarter: Make life easier / Less is More / enabler and ally rather than a blocker
Result focus: to create real change – you have to delegate and build trust in one vision
TALK TO AUDIENCE AND CAMERA
Slide 4: (1 MINUTE) Why Today - WHY few understand / HOW Some Know / WHAT Most understand 100%
People not always consciously aware of their thoughts and feelings about complicated topics
People are overwhelmed by the complexity and scale of ecological threats
Establishing connection and engagement requires compassion and credibility.
Our job is to inspire and nudge the way we act
The most important question for climate impacts is ‘when’, not ‘if’
IF 70% of something terrible happening, people focus on the 30% chance that it won’t.
Climate change is a notoriously ‘distant’ risk for most people — not here, and not now.
Uncertainty in climate predictions creates dangerous thoughts in our own reality
STAND STILL AND DESCRIBE THE PROCESS
Slide 5: (30 SECONDS) Thinking outside the box -Mind game – (Talk the scenario)
Jogging collective memories - shift to climate change from a scientific to a social reality
COP 21 = December 190 nations in Paris to discuss a new global agreement BUT WHY?
Carbon dioxide emitted next 50 years will determine extent to which our climate changes.
We need to create the collective willpower to do it — is an uncertainty that dwarfs all others.
SLIDE 6: (30 SECONDS) SMART – ERIC
Meet SMART (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Business acumen; Specific / Measurable / Achievable / Realistic / Time
A goal might be to hold a meeting or to organise a petition.
Meet ERIC (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Health& Safety Acumen: Eliminate / Reduce / Inform / Control
Hierarchy by providing a structure to select the most effective control measures
PACE AND GESTURE
Slide 5: (30 SECONDS) Thinking outside the box -Mind game – (Talk the scenario)
Jogging collective memories - shift to climate change from a scientific to a social reality
COP 21 = December 190 nations in Paris to discuss a new global agreement BUT WHY?
Carbon dioxide emitted next 50 years will determine extent to which our climate changes.
We need to create the collective willpower to do it — is an uncertainty that dwarfs all others.
SLIDE 6: (30 SECONDS) SMART – ERIC
Meet SMART (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Business acumen; Specific / Measurable / Achievable / Realistic / Time
A goal might be to hold a meeting or to organise a petition.
Meet ERIC (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Health& Safety Acumen: Eliminate / Reduce / Inform / Control
Hierarchy by providing a structure to select the most effective control measures
PACE AND GESTURE
Slide 5: (30 SECONDS) Thinking outside the box -Mind game – (Talk the scenario)
Jogging collective memories - shift to climate change from a scientific to a social reality
COP 21 = December 190 nations in Paris to discuss a new global agreement BUT WHY?
Carbon dioxide emitted next 50 years will determine extent to which our climate changes.
We need to create the collective willpower to do it — is an uncertainty that dwarfs all others.
SLIDE 6: (30 SECONDS) SMART – ERIC
Meet SMART (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Business acumen; Specific / Measurable / Achievable / Realistic / Time
A goal might be to hold a meeting or to organise a petition.
Meet ERIC (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Health& Safety Acumen: Eliminate / Reduce / Inform / Control
Hierarchy by providing a structure to select the most effective control measures
PACE AND GESTURE
SLIDE 6: (30 SECONDS) SMART – ERIC
Meet SMART (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Business acumen; Specific / Measurable / Achievable / Realistic / Time
A goal might be to hold a meeting or to organise a petition.
Meet ERIC (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Health& Safety Acumen: Eliminate / Reduce / Inform / Control
Hierarchy by providing a structure to select the most effective control measures
PACE AND GESTURE
SLIDE 6: (30 SECONDS) SMART – ERIC
Meet SMART (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Business acumen; Specific / Measurable / Achievable / Realistic / Time
A goal might be to hold a meeting or to organise a petition.
Meet ERIC (A goofy cartoon EC character)
Health& Safety Acumen: Eliminate / Reduce / Inform / Control
Hierarchy by providing a structure to select the most effective control measures
PACE AND GESTURE
Slide 7: (30 SECONDS) Cause & Effect
If you want to encourage something make it easy
If you want make something stick you must (Make it sticky)
Simplify, reduce hassle and take out friction
Human beings are deeply social beings. We are constantly influencing each other, try it in your next few meetings try watching other people’s body language more carefully –to understand human behavior you have to understand there is a web of influence that flows between us.
STAND STILL – POINT TO FLIPPING OVER 9 DOTS TO PEOPLE AND FAST COMMENTS
Slide 8: FLASH ONLY (15 SECONDS) – LEADERS need to build greater community opportunities
No ONE country can tackle the sustainable development challenges alone WE NEED true international partnership - we all need to change - make different choices with regards to business management, ethics, politics, healthy life styles and personal consumption, resource use, fertility, education etc.
¨ Lead with compassion and communicate from the heart as well as their head;
¨ Can formulate a clear vision and inspire and engage others with it;
¨ Inspire meaning and purpose.
Slide 9: (FLASH ONLY (15 SECONDS) - POLTICIANS
Policy-makers, the focus on uncertainty can obscure the important messages underneath.
Body languages & gestures (hand signals audience) and verbal delivery often clash
Effective leaders have the ability to move themselves and others to action
– 18 EMAILS / 12 LETTER – NO LUCK –Don’t want to loose face and votes
Slide 10: (FLASH ONLY(15 SECONDS) - BUSINESS
Effective businesses have the ability to move themselves and others to action
They create triggers that tap into those little things that trigger behavior
18 EMAILS / 12 LETTER – 74 replies from all levels including trade unions
Slide 11: FLASH ONLY (15 SECONDS) - SCIENTISTS
Business - Uncertainties are everywhere, yet crucial personal decisions are still made
70 to 77% SURE climate condition is man made & all agree climate impacts is ‘when’, not ‘if’
No emails or letters BUT AVALANCHE OF REPLIES AND COMMENTS – THANK YOU
Slide 12: (FLASH ONLY (15 SECONDS) - DOCTORS
Climate science is not a single discipline like ‘neuroscience’ – it involves bringing together expertise from many different areas of science to understand a complex problem: why the climate is changing, and what we can do about it. (Fighting tropical disease)
Slide 13 - FLASH ONLY (15 SECONDS) – Media - How can climate skepticism be countered?
Timely: interventions are effective before habits are formed and help you plan ahead
MEDIA – 27 EMAILS / 6 LETTER – NO LUCK – Only interested in Sound bites & Bad news
A question motivating communication - - Media: They are tired skeptics
SLIDE 14 (FLASH ONLY (15 SECONDS) – NGO
How and when will our fossil fuel use change AND CAN technologies mitigate the problem?
Will changing economics or political processes ALONE enable us to tackle the problem NO?
MOVE AROUND - GESTURES
Slide 15: (30 SECONDS) Think Global Act Local - What does "think globally, act locally" mean to you?
To me, it means do something about it in your community.
Anybody can just do something small, to help the world globally.
It doesn't take to much time or effort or many ways you can help slow down warming.
When you make a decision or form an opinion, you think you know why – but you can be wrong
Give people ownership of any problem, and then ask them for their ideas and solutions.
If politicians and scientist want to create any rules or procedures, they need to involve US, then we are more likely to WANT to and not just feel that WE have to its all about getting buy in to the message and the idea we all NEED TO CHANGE our habits and the way we live
The truth is that most of our mental activity actually happens below our level of conscious thoughts
Our unconscious neurological processes that underpin every aspect of our lives have been formed and constantly reinforced by subliminal selective reinforcement from a very early age.
Example my MUM – earlier pioneer of pre-environment movement (Homework / Washing Machine)
CHILDREN STAND UP TAKE APPLE EACH OUT OF BOWL – GO TO PRE-ARRANGED STANDING SPOTS (with Apple and pictures) WAIT
SLIDE 16: (1 minute) STAND UP AND ACT - SUSTAINABILITY & GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY
State – Looking for stronger coordination of international governance in future.
Society – Private philanthropy is a key role in the future, if and when the world's becomes engaged.
Economy – Corporate citizens on duty - can add value to corporations' activities.
CHILDREN OPEN UP APPLES – LIGHTS WITHIN APPLE – SHOW TO AUDIENCE AND CAMERAS
Team “gasp / clap / sharp intake of breath- - aim to create a herd instinct in others
Slide 17: (30 SECONDS) Students - WE'RE DOING IT TOGETHER
Need to convince world leaders that there is citizen support for bold action to cut emissions.
What are some ways you plan to get involved with this campaign?
When the world speaks with one voice, our leaders have to listen
MY strategy was to create a vivid ‘mental model’ of climate change in THE studio (and those watching later) minds and hits home with people and communities – personal narratives.”
Not lists of numbers, probability statements, or technical graphs, and so finding ways of translating scientific reports into something more engaging.
TEAM STAND UP AND COME ON DOWN TO CHILDREN (audience think one of them)
CHILDREN HAND OUT ART TO AUDIENCE TO ANSWER
I EXPLAIN TO CAMERA WHAT HAPPENS NEXT > WEB > TEST > A or B > LINKS TO MORE
Slide 18: (30 SECONDS) Street Art - Reality is most people understand the world through stories and images,
Street art uses simple slogans and provocative images to spread important and inspiring ideas in ways that are easy to remember - Such art can inspire people to action or at least remind them about important issues that they may have forgotten.
“If we talk about uncertainty in a positive way it creates hope,
FADE OUT WITH CHILDREN MIXING WITH AUDIENCE
MALMO TEAM & JOAN TAKE ARTWORK WITH MESSAGES TO PUT ON WEBSITE (spare pens)