Why a technology-enabled circular economy will bring prosperity to Latin America
Latin America didn't get much chance to participate in the first three Industrial Revolutions, besides being a supplier and exporter of valuable resources. Petar Ostojic argues that the combination of the circular economy and the Fourth Industrial Revolution provides a unique moment in history for Latin America to enter a new era of prosperity. Petar Ostojic is co-Founder and CEO of Neptuno Pumps, Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Innovation and Circular Economy - CIEC. He is recognised as the first promoter of the circular economy in Latin America by the World Economic Forum and selected Highly Commended for Circular Economy Leadership by The Circulars 2017 in Davos.

Demond Drummer - A Green New Deal | Bioneers
This keynote talk was given at the 2019 Bioneers Conference. New Consensus is a leading-edge non-profit policy “think tank” working behind the scenes supplying research and detailed policy proposals for the Green New Deal to its leading political advocates, such as Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasion Cortez. Demond Drummer, New Consensus’ co-founder and Executive Director, well known in Chicago as a highly effective activist whose notable projects include CoderSpace, a computer science learning lab where students develop leadership skills, and a community-driven effort to reclaim city-owned vacant lots, is one of the true intellectual architects of the Green New Deal. He draws from the history of FDR’s WWII mobilization, the moonshot of the 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement to explain the critical importance of the Green New Deal as the next chapter of the American story. To learn more about Demond Drummer, visit New Consensus. *** Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. To find more talks like this one, along with engaging articles, interviews, podcasts and ways to take action, visit http://bioneers.org Subscribe to the Bioneers Radio Series, available on iTunes and other podcast providers and on your local radio station. Support Bioneers today: https://bioneers.org/donate Please join our mailing list (http://www.bioneers.org/subscribe) Stay in touch via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Bioneers.org) Follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/bioneers) Follow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/bioneers/)

The New Normal: Leadership in the Climate Crisis | Emma Howard Boyd | RSA Replay
RSA President’s Lecture 2019 As the scale and urgency of climate emergency becomes ever more apparent, urgent action is required on the critical challenges of environmental protection and sustainable development. In her 2019 RSA President’s Lecture, Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency and UK Commissioner to the Global Commission on Adaptation, will call on governments, industry, public agencies and civil society to forge new alliances and create new possibilities for action. At a time of global flux and uncertainty, Emma will discuss the guiding principles of leadership that are needed to drive transformational change. SUBSCRIBE to our channel! Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEvents Like RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsoff... Listen to RSA podcasts: https://soundcloud.com/the_rsa See RSA Events behind the scenes: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/

Inspiring the next generation of climate leaders
“Women make up more than half the world’s population, and although they are often disproportionately impacted by climate change, their voices are not always heard due to lack of inclusion and representation at the decision-making level. Now more than ever, enhancing women’s participation and leadership in the conversation around climate action will be critical to securing a healthy, prosperous and sustainable future for us all” (women4climate website). Clara Duchalet joined the C40 program Women4Climate to boost the development of her startup: Vépluche, a circular economy solution designed to valorise organic waste. Would you like to be the next climate leader? Join this session to find out how.

Solving Hunger by Solving Food Waste | Vince Hall | TEDxSDSU
Virtually everything we’ve been taught about solving hunger is wrong--all the food we need to end hunger is already in our communities every day. Vince debunks traditional approaches and their environmental impacts and introduces the concept of effective food rescue programs that will end hunger and help save the planet. Vince Hall is the CEO of Feeding San Diego, the county’s leading hunger relief agency and a member of Feeding America. Hunger is a daily struggle for an eighth of San Diegans, including 127,000 children. Under Vince’s leadership, Feeding San Diego is innovating creative new approaches to rescuing healthy food which would otherwise go to waste, and using it to provide over 25 million meals per year across the county. Vince has extensive nonprofit and public sector management experience, including serving as Staff Director for Governor Gray Davis. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication from San Diego State University and a law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Climate One TV: The Paris Agreement at Three And How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change
Three years after it was signed, are supporters of the Paris Agreement still correct that it’s the first truly global step toward a sustainable future, or are critics right that the pact is not nearly ambitious enough? “The Paris agreement in some ways has this top-down, bottom-up relationship,” says Katharine Mach, a Senior Research Scientist at Stanford University and a co-leader of the IPCC working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. “If 30 years from now we look back and say the Paris agreement was successful, largely it will be because it has provided predictability to enable all of the other bottom-up action.” But, she adds, “if you really wanna say are we doing enough, the answer hands down, still is no.” Not enough to meet the ambitious Paris target of limiting post-industrial warming to 1.5°, perhaps. But there are risks to framing the success or failure of Paris as a binary challenge where either the world gets to 1.5° or it’s Armageddon. ”The progress that we've already made in bending the emissions curve down has avoided just a massive amount of future human suffering,” says Trevor Houser, a partner at the Rhodium Group, where his team focuses on analyzing the economic risk of global climate change. “And the progress that is certainly within our reach is another large quantum of benefit that we shouldn’t abandon while continuing to work towards that one 1.5°, 2° target.” And later in the show: Climate change is a global problem that no one country can solve on its own. And when it comes to cutting emissions, some countries are moving quickly. But the absence of U.S. climate leadership is causing others to ease off their goals. “We need to decarbonize the world economy really quickly and at massive scale,” says Joshua Goldstein, co-author of A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow. “The metric that matters here is carbon going into the atmosphere,” he notes. “It's not how many renewables you put in or how many nuclear plants you put in... it’s how much carbon is going up.” Goldstein’s co-author, energy consultant Staffan Qvist, points to his native Sweden as one country that has successfully decarbonized its electricity grid. “In Sweden, for instance, half of the power comes from hydroelectric and half from nuclear,” he explains, “so it's kind of the ideal place in the world to try to do 100% renewables.” But Qvist points to another European country – Germany – as illustrating the perils of pursuing a goal of 100% renewables for its own sake. #letstalkclimate https://climateone.org/ Paris was more successful than Copenhagen 2:33 Is Paris healthy at three? 6:01 The Climate Action Tracker: 9:19 How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change 13:00 Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima 20:16

Cities: The New Vanguard of US Climate Leadership
Live from the National Press Club in Washington D.C., RMI's Carla Frisch and Rushad Nanavatty joined moderator and special guest—RMI Trustee Dennis McGinn for a discussion on the exciting new ways U.S. cities are stepping up to mitigate climate change, improve their communities, and collectively put the country on track to meet Paris targets. www.rmi.org

An opportunity in the climate crisis - Energy 5.0 | Chandra Bhushan | TEDxSIBMBengaluru
Chandra Bhushan is the Deputy Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of India's leading environmental research and advocacy organizations. He is an environmentalist with a wide experience in issues ranging from industrial pollution to climate change and from global environmental treaties to political economy of natural resource extraction. For over two decades, he has worked passionately to promote environmentally sound and socially inclusive development. For his leadership role in pushing for an equitable and ambitious Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, he was given Ozone Award in 2017 by the UN Environment. In this idea focussed talk TEDxSIBMBengaluru 2019, Dr. Bhushan critiqued the current climate crisis. But just like every crisis is an opportunity, he reminds us to think of climate change in the same manner, as it can help us in shaping a sustainable future by welcoming Energy 5.0, which is renewable, cleaner and better. By highlighting the concept of Energy 5.0, he dreams of making India a part of the Future 2.0. Chandra Bhushan is an environmentalist with a wide range of research and advocacy experiences in issues ranging from climate change to global environmental treaties. For over two decades, he has worked passionately to promote an environmentally sound and socially inclusive development.Mr. Bhushan is currently the Deputy Director General of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of world’s leading environmental organisations. He is also a consulting Editor for ‘Down to Earth’ magazine, and columnist for the Financial Express. He has authored/co-authored more than 60 books and reports on a wide-array of environment and development issues. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx