Welcome to Episode 3 of The Pathfinders Collective Podcast.
In this episode I meet with Prof Pierre Friedlingstein, a world leading climate scientist and the lead author of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment report.
Fresh from being at COP26 in Glasgow, Pierre spoke to me about:
- Carbon budgets
- The problem with economic growth
- Protest and civil disobedience
- What a post-fossil fuel economy might look like
- How a 1.7 - 1.8C degree warmer world is actually an optimistic target
- As well as discussing the emotional toll of climate change and how lines in the sand are different all over the world, with many lines already having been crossed
- Towards the end of our chat we touch on the inadequacy of the current state of democratic processes and the lack of success of green politics
- The need for market incentives to decarbonise the economy
- And how now is the time for businesses to step up with bold new visions to lead the way to a post-carbon world Pierre is an incredibly well accomplished academic having spent the last 30 years raising the alarm on climate change, whose analysis has enabled us to think about how we might best budget for carbon emissions, and helped to create a framework that is incredibly useful for scenario planning in order to avoid runaway climate change.
Carbon Budgets, Climate Change & An Ecological Economy with Prof Pierre Friedlingstein