Planet in Crisis Scientists Warning Europe

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 Movement
https://fairstartmovement.org/
Justice as a Fair Start in Life – by Carter Dillard
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62140570-justice-as-a-fair-start-in-life
Clima
https://climauk.com/
Our Time to Rise – by Steve Pipe
https://www.ourtimetorise.global/

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MORE INFO:
World Scientists’ Warnings into Action, Local to Global
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211056290
Scientists Warning Europe
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/
Video of this conversation
https://youtu.be/JLvQqSaaQLU
All Three World Scientists’ Warnings
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings
Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope

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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.
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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 Europe
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/
Video of this conversation
https://youtu.be/okuetPh6qBY
All Three World Scientists’ Warnings
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/warnings
Scientists Warning Europe YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/ScientistsWarningEurope

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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 discussion
https://youtu.be/PWk8IJm5gH4
Warnings to Action: Mobilising Humanity (film shown in introduction to this panel)
https://youtu.be/YQYLtGVar2A
Road to COP27 events
https://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 Europe
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/
All Three World Scientists’ Warnings
https://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
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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 updates
https://angusro.github.io/
Follow Angus on Twitter
https://twitter.com/Angus_Climate
Video of this conversation
https://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 Europe
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/
All Three World Scientists’ Warnings
https://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
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“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 Conference
https://youtu.be/Owegop5VqEo
The film: Warnings to Action: Mobilising Humanity
https://youtu.be/YQYLtGVar2A
 World Scientists’ Warning into Action, Local to Global - published in Science Progress
https://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 Draghi
https://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 Europe
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/
All Three World Scientists’ Warnings
https://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
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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 Europe
https://scientistswarningeurope.org.uk/
Video of this conversation
https://youtu.be/ACyjH4NPkaY
All Three World Scientists’ Warnings
https://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/

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