Earth Day Week climate conference, April 20-25, 2020

Friday

  ,

April

24

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Local government, city development and transportation

 

Earth Day Week 2020. The public, free, online, no-fly climate conference.

Friday

,

April

24

:

Local government, city development and transportation

 

"Challenges are hidden opportunities." Jennifer Lenhart

Earth Day Week climate conference, April 20-25, 2020

Friday

  ,

April

24

:

Local government, city development and transportation

 

"Challenges are hidden opportunities." Jennifer Lenhart

April 24: Local governance, city development and transportation

A global challenge...with local solutions. The fight against climate change is not only fought on the international stage. It is in equal measure fought through the choices we and our local leaders make every day. A sustainable society is not a pipe dream. It is constantly realized through local innovation and initiative. Join us for some of the best examples in construction, transportation, and city planning.

15:00 CEST /  9:00 am EST – Stockholm studio

Opening remarks from hosts Ingmar Rentzhog, We Don’t Have Time, Johan Falk, Exponential Roadmap, and Nick Nuttall, Earth Day Network


Introduction Keynote – Local governance
by Yanna Badet
, Climate Reality Europe and Matthew Chapman, Campaign Coordinator, Climate Reality Canada, Co-chair of the Cities Caucus of CAN-Canada


Solutions in Local governance – Part I


Doers & Thinkers – Part I


16:00 CEST / 10:00 am EST  Washington D.C. studio
Welcome and introduction by host and moderator Dr. Sweta Chakraborty 

Keynote – ”How cities play a key role in achieving the goals set forth in the Paris Agreement.”
by Jennifer Lenhart
of Global Lead, Cities, WWF


Solutions in Local governance – Part II
People are the solution: E-mobility and renewable energy solutions designed to be shared and enjoyed by everyone


Doers & Thinkers – Part II


Concluding Keynote
Steven Donziger, an American human rights advocate who won big against Chevron but who's now paying the price..

Closing remarks from hosts Owen Gaffney, Exponential Roadmap and Nick Nuttall Earth Day Network


18:00 CEST /  12:00 noon EST  – The Grand Finale

Concluding remarks from Earth Day Network by Kathleen Rogers, President, Earth Day Network

Keynote by Ingmar Rentzhog, CEO and Founder, We Don’t Have Time


Music Finale
We go out with a special music celebration. We'll play a special dedication from CJ Palmer of Sustainable Soundtracks and the song Sustainable Soundtracks feat. Adam Baptiste: We Don't Have Time

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Speakers

Jennifer Lenhart

 (
CL
)
Global Lead, Cities, WWF

Jennifer Lenhart is the Global Lead for WWF Cities, a program that has engaged over 500 cities in 50 countries. Jennifer holds a PhD in urban climate governance and has 15 years’ experience addressing urban environmental challenges via holistic approaches. Her fascination with urban planning, including how people interact in and with cities, inspired her blog, the Urban Observer, which chronicled her bicycle lifestyle (then in Amsterdam), recognized by Guardian Cities as one of the best city blogs. She previously worked at UN-Habitat’s Urban Environment Planning Branch in Nairobi, Kenya; the City of Malmö Environment Department, Sweden; and an urban sustainability consultancy in Seattle, USA. She currently parks her bicycle in Santiago de Chile, home for over a year. Jennifer is a co-author of the Exponential Roadmap.

Atul Ajmani

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IN
)
Ambassador India, We Don't Have Time, Volunteer, Climate Collective Pune

Atul Ajmani volunteers for NGOs and organizations, focused in finding meaningful solutions to the climate crisis. Prior to this, he has worked extensively in the telecom industry for 14 years, his last assignment being in Ericsson. He is also a veteran, as an officer in the Indian Army he has served at remote locations in the country. He is an alumnus of National Defence Academy and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Nuria Albet-Torres

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ES
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Professional activist and Coordinator, La Palma Renovable

Nuria is a physicist with a bionanotechnology PhD who has long experience in grass-root movements and cooperative enterprises. She is currently coordinating La Palma Renovable, a project with the goal of decarbonizing La Palma island on Canary Islands.

Johanna Barr

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SE
)
Advisor, Future Electricity Systems, Power Circle

Johanna holds a M.Sc in energy systems engineering. She has worked with renewable energy across the world, from Norway, to India and South America. Back in Sweden she has led the build-out of charging infrastructure before moving on to Power Circle - an interest organization for companies aiming for a smarter electricity system and electrification - where she works as an analyst and advisor on topics such as flexible demand, energy storage and digitalization of the electric grid.

Susanné Wallner and Jonas Johansson

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SE
)
Business strategist, Development Director, Mariestad Municipality

Susanné is one of the strategists behind the concept of ElectriVillage. It's a test and demonstration platform for sustainability, the community and the industry to do a change and work for Agenda 2030. Earlier Susanné was a commissioner in the region of Jämtland/Härjedalen and for 10 years an entrepreneur of a wool factory. Jonas has worked as a Manager at Nimbus boats for 8 years, before he started in the Municipality. Before that he too was an entrepreneur.

Patrick Noël and Fakrou Akbaraly

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FR
)
New Mobility Co-inventors & Open Innovation Coach, Blue Bike Innovation Project “Surpass Oneself through the Solar Bike Tour destined for Eurasia (12000 Km)”

Patrick and Fakrou’s dream is to reinvent the Silk Road while promoting and improving climate impacts. The schedule: from Lyon to Canton in China on a solar bike, without assistance, in less than 100 days—a journey of 12,000 kilometers. They invite you to discover an ecological and crazy project which, beyond its sports achievement, has a goal to promote “Surpassing Oneself” through an ecological project of co-mobility.

Yanna Badet

 (
DE
)
Senior Environmental Planner Climate Resilience and Community Engagement, Climate Reality Project

Yanna is an Environmental Scientist with a specialty in community engagement, resilience, and sustainability planning. She has more than 18 years of experience advising governmental agencies, cities, and firms in California and Germany. Ms. Badet has also managed climate change mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability projects. She led the community engagement for several large infrastructure and resilience-focused projects, reaching millions of people. A trained Climate Reality Leader as of 2018, she currently lives with her family in Germany, trying to support the massive transformation to adapt our communities from there.

Matthew Chapman

 (
CA
)
National Campaign Manager, Climate Reality Project Canada, Co-chair of the Cities Caucus of CAN-Canada

A Toronto native whose career has come to rest at the confluence of entrepreneurship, education and ecology, Matthew fell in love with Montréal’s bike lanes in 2008. His experience in the fields of fine arts (BFA, York University), education (BEd, University of Ottawa) and commerce (MBA, HEC Montreal) shape his understanding of the challenges and opportunities our society and civilisation face. He is a co-founder and board member of the Montreal Climate Coalition and works as the National Campaign Manager for The Climate Reality Project Canada.

Sandra Frank

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SE
)
Co-founder and Marketing Director, ARVET

Sandra Frank is a co-founder of Arvet who built two eight story apartment buildings totally in wood in Stockholm 2013. Since then she has been an advocate in replanting and growing our building materials to create a circular and more sustainable building industry. Our building industry is letting out more emissions to create concrete and steel than any other and we need to spread the knowledge in how we create new buildings that are more environmentally friendly.

Susie Broquist Lundegård

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SE
)
Senior adviser/programme coordinator Education for Sustainable Development, WWF

Background as a teacher, outdoor educator and principal. From 2018 advisor and program coordinator in education for sustainable development at the World Wide Fund for Nature in Sweden.

Jonas Bane

 (
SE
)
SMUF : Students association of environment and development at Södertörn University

Actor/Producer turned climate activist turned environmental science scholar. Previously in PUSH Sweden and Climate Action Sweden, now on an academic mission to grasp the full holistic perspective on global problems.

Prof. Lesley Hughes

 (
AU
)
Professor, Macquarie University & Climate Council of Australia

I am an ecologist who has been studying the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems for many years. I am a former IPCC Lead Author (4th & 5th Assessment reports) and a former Australian Climate Commissioner. I am a founding Councillor with the publicly funded Climate Council of Australia, dedicated to bringing climate change science to the Australian public. Prof. Hughes call on us to read this recent statement on the recent bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef: http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/news-room/latest-news/latest-news/coral-bleaching/2020/statement-coral-bleaching-on-the-great-barrier-reef

Prof. Will Steffen

 (
AU
)
Professor, The Australian National University

Will Steffen is an Earth System scientist. He is a Councillor on the publicly-funded Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change. He is also an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University (ANU); Canberra, a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group. From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm. His research interests span a broad range within Earth System science, with an emphasis on sustainability and climate change.

Mhairi McClymont

 (
AU
)
Content Strategist, Good On You

Mhairi is a Sydney-based communications specialist and part of the team behind the Good On You app, which rates 1000s of clothing brands for their impact on the environment, human rights and animal rights. A former journalist (BBC/ABC), Mhairi has worked in the climate movement since 2015 and has been involved in high profile campaigns against Australian coal mines, and promoting renewable energy. Mhairi is interested in the ability of ordinary people to use their purchasing power to compel corporations to act to protect the environment.

Therese Lundstedt

 (
SE
)
CEO Urbangreen

Therese is the CEO of greentech company Urbangreen. She left the finance industry to join Urbangreen that makes the cities and the world of contractors and real estate more sustainable and green. Therese was appointed Future Female Leader of the year in 2017. She will speak about how we can make our cities and buildings sustainable by making the roofs green – that will work against Urban Heat Islands, manage storm water och increase biodiversity.

Margaret Klein Salamon

 (
US
)
Executive Director, The Climate Mobilization

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior. The Climate Mobilization advocates an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe and helped pioneer the Climate Emergency Declaration campaign, which has led more than 1400 global governments to declare a Climate Emergency. She is also the author of Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth, a self-help guide for the climate emergency.

Jona Christians

 (
DE
)
Co-founder and CEO, Sono Motors GmbH

Jona is co-founder and CEO of the car manufacturer and mobility provider Sono Motors. in 2012 the core team embarked on an ambitious journey: the development of an efficient electric car, suitable for everyday use. The Sion is going to be the first series produced SEV (solar electric vehicle) able to also charge its battery with the power of the sun, offering integrated ride, car and power sharing services. Currently Sono Motors is preparing the series production of the Sion.

Elin Andersdotter Fabre

 (
SE
)
Programme Director for the Sustainable Cities Programme, Global Utmaning (Global Challenge)

Elin will be speaking about the Urban Girls Movement and what empowering different stakeholders means for sustainability in urban planning. She previously worked with policy development and advocacy leading up to the UN 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals and the Habitat III New Urban Agenda. She holds political science degrees from Stockholm University, Sciences Po Paris, and King’s College London.

Tamara Toles O'Laughlin

 (
US
)
Advocate for People and Planet, North America Director at 350.org

Tamara is a native New Yorker and environmentalist focused on equity, access and community. At 350.org she supports and is accountable to organizers and campaigners on the United States and Canada teams, drives mission critical work and organizational investments to build a multiracial, multi-generational climate movement that is capable of holding our leaders accountable to science and justice.

Giordano Nanni

 (
AU
)
Director, The Juice Media

Giordano is the writer and creator of the Honest Government Ads - a popular political satire series broadcasting on Youtube which tackles some of the key issues of our times, with a focus on the climate emergency.

http://thejuicemedia.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Juice_Media

Joe Britton

 (
US
)
Executive Director, Zero Emission Transportation Association

Joe has spent the past fifteen years working in the U.S. Senate, most recently serving as Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM). Prior to that he spent six years with Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), serving as a Legislative Assistant, and for five years as Deputy Chief of Staff and Legislative Director for Senator Mark Udall (D-CO). He also served as a Senior Advisor to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, helping to oversee the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, and the Forest Service.

Erik Zydervelt

 (
NZ
)
Founder & CEO, Mevo

Erik is a creative, pragmatic, big picture focused environmental change maker. He’s passionate about savvy business driving environmental regeneration. Specifically, through high impact, scalable urban liveability projects that deliver a better future today. His background is in international corporate strategy, conservation, and research, which leads to data-driven decision making. Erik is a proud Victoria University of Wellington alum and enjoys exploring both cities and wilderness in his spare time.

Kathleen Rogers

 (
US
)
President, Earth Day Network

Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Kathleen has developed Earth Day Network into a year-round policy and activist organization. Now more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day in 192 countries. Kathleen has been at the vanguard of developing innovative financial mechanisms to support green buildings and schools. Kathleen also founded Earth Day Network’s groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green program, which has now recorded close to 3 billion individual actions to improve the environment.

Steven Donziger

 (
US
)
Advocate, Law Office of Steven Donziger

Steven Donziger is a lawyer, public advocate, and writer who focuses on human rights and corporate accountability. He has represented Indigenous peoples and local communities in Ecuador's Amazon. In 2011 they won a historic $9.5 billion environmental judgment against Chevron. Mr Donziger have been targeted with what is believed to be the most well-financed corporate retaliation campaign ever as Chevron used 60 law firms, 2,000 lawyers, and several public relations firms in order to silence Steven and his colleagues.

https://www.makechevroncleanup.com/take-actionhttps://www.donzigerlaw.com/

Benjamin Santer

 (
US
)
Atmospheric scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Ben's studies natural and human “fingerprints” in observed climate records. His early research contributed to the historic 1995 conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: “the balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate”. He served as lead author of a key chapter of that report. Since 1995, Ben has identified human fingerprints in atmospheric temperature and water vapor, ocean heat content, sea surface temperature in hurricane formation regions, and many other climate variables. In addition to his research, he cares deeply about the communication of climate science to a wide range of audiences.

Hosts

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson

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SE

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Host, We Don't Have Time

Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson is an expert moderator, lecturer, and devoted workshop leader in facilitating sustainable development. Catarina moderates for the EU Commission, the Swedish Government, corporations, local municipalities, and universities. She is also content director at A Sustainable Tomorrow and co-founder of the global climate NGO Our Kids´Climate.

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Dr. Sweta Chakraborty

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Climate Behavioral Scientist, CEO of North America, We Don't Have Time

Dr. Sweta Chakraborty is the CEO of North America, We Don’t Have Time. She is a partner at Pioneer Public Affairs. She is also the founder and principal of Adapt to Thrive, a venture that seeks to better inform individuals, businesses, and government entities on the complex, interconnected challenges, such as food insecurity and disease, already existing and emerging from a warming planet.

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Nick Nuttall

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Host, Strategic Communications Director, We Don't Have Time

Previously with the Times Newspaper London, the U.N. Environment, and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nick was the Director of Communications and Spokesperson for the Paris Agreement of 2015. More recently, he has served as the Director of Communications for the Global Climate Action Summit that took place in San Francisco in September 2018.

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Day by day program

"We know we have the finance to deliver the transition to sustainable development. Whether we achieve this is up to us.”
"We know we have the finance to deliver the transition to sustainable development. Whether we achieve this is up to us.”

Monday

April

 

20

15:00

 CEST / 

9:00 am

 EST 

Finance

"We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves." Christiana Figueres
"We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves." Christiana Figueres

Tuesday

April

 

21

15:00

 CEST / 

9:00 am

 EST 

Circular economy and consumption

"We live on a human-dominated planet, putting unprecedented pressure on the systems on Earth." Johan Rockström
"We live on a human-dominated planet, putting unprecedented pressure on the systems on Earth." Johan Rockström

Wednesday

April

 

22

15:00

 CEST / 

9:00 am

 EST 

Big ideas and education

"More than half of the world’s agricultural land is affected by degradation." Ibrahim Thiaw
"More than half of the world’s agricultural land is affected by degradation." Ibrahim Thiaw

Thursday

April

 

23

15:00

 CEST / 

9:00 am

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Food and agriculture

"Challenges are hidden opportunities." Jennifer Lenhart
"Challenges are hidden opportunities." Jennifer Lenhart

Friday

April

 

24

15:00

 CEST / 

9:00 am

 EST 

Local government, city development and transportation

Saturday

April

 

25

15:00

 CEST / 

9:00 am

 EST 

Climate Hackathon

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