Climate Positivity

During the expert session, Karim Benammar engages the audience through a Q&A session, live demonstrations using the Mentimeter app for interactive exercises, and asking participants to reflect on how they and their companies can become more climate positive. He discusses ways individuals and organizations can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on travel and technological solutions. Karim encourages attendees to consider the potential impact of various climate-friendly actions, even if they require an initial investment, and emphasizes the importance of engaging in discussions about climate change within their organizations.

• Embracing Individual and Collective Impact: Each person has the power to contribute to climate positivity through small actions like deleting unnecessary emails and checking tire pressure regularly, while organizations can implement larger-scale initiatives, such as investing in clean energy technologies and planting trees.
• Collaborative Climate Solutions: Fostering meaningful discussions within organizations about climate positivity efforts and engaging with "bad actors" in business deals to influence change toward more sustainable practices can lead to substantial progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• Focus on Meaningful Solutions: Identifying orders of magnitude for potential climate-friendly actions, such as investing in clean energy or growing trees, can help organizations prioritize the most effective solutions for reducing carbon emissions, even if they require more resources upfront.

In this expert session, Karim Benammar initiates a discussion on the urgent need for collective action to address the global climate crisis. 

Karim expresses his belief that it is crucial for individuals, organizations, and the global community to take action in mitigating the impact of climate change and transitioning towards more sustainable practices. He highlights key concepts such as urgent action, sustainable development, collaboration, innovation, renewable energy, circular economy, and responsible consumption, which he believes are essential in effectively addressing the climate crisis.

 

He emphasizes that the climate problem is a global issue requiring a collaborative and innovative approach from all sectors and levels of society. Recognizing the interconnectedness of our actions and their impacts on the planet, Karim urges international cooperation to find technological and economic solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining progress and planetary health.

 

Karim shares insights into various aspects of climate change, including abandoned refrigerators, technology, and effective solutions. He stresses the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in sectors such as transportation, agriculture, and industry through collaboration, innovation, and the adoption of sustainable practices.

 

The session touches upon the significance of addressing methane leaks and the potential impact of influencing "bad actors" in business deals to adopt more sustainable practices rather than avoiding them altogether. Electric planes and sustainable aviation fuel are mentioned as potential solutions for reducing emissions in the transportation sector, while carbon offsetting is suggested as an alternative to completely eliminating flights.

In agriculture, more efficient fertilizers are proposed as a solution to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the fertilizer industry. Karim emphasizes the importance of engaging in meaningful discussions about this topic within organizations.

 

Karim also suggests several small steps individuals can take to reduce their carbon footprint, such as deleting unnecessary emails and regularly checking tire pressure. He acknowledges that these actions may seem insignificant but can contribute to substantial savings in fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions when adopted on a larger scale within organizations.

 

The session emphasizes the importance of identifying effective solutions for reducing carbon emissions, even if they require more resources upfront. 

Reframing

Are you able to challenge your own assumptions? Sometimes a radically different view can offer new possibilities and insights. For example, can you always rely on data? Do we really need to produce this report? Is the customer always right? Is input really the same as output? Is this model the only way to make things work in our company/industry? All our socio-economic systems are based on assumptions. In this interactive session, Karim teaches your team to look at issues differently in order to come up with completely new solutions.

 

Shaping The Future

How are we going to shape the world of tomorrow? How will we change the world, or improve it? We are usually engaged as individuals, but it is precisely as an organisation, team, or profession that we have a huge opportunity to make a difference at scale.

In this interactive session, we will use a global challenge as a case-study to explore different strategies to maximise our impact. We will then design concrete steps to turn our ambitions into reality. As they say, the best way to predict the future is to create it.