Welcome to the CCD - Debrief project notes

 

London wraps up its discussion and summarises the points raised:

Jasper Sky, Oxford University:
How can I help? I would like Oxford, and Cambridge, as a venue for change labs -- get together key stakeholders where they hash out for 3 or 4 days in workshops. Can we identify these climate deals and persuade some of the colleges together.

Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, The Prince of Wales's EU Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change and University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership in Brussels:
I agree with Jasper and believe we could set up change workshops to dissect core areas for deal making.In addition, I want to put a deal on the table, that's already happening. The our 9 of February Summit on Low Carbon Prosperity with His Royal Highness, the 3 EU Presidents and world renowned economists coming together to kick start a low carbon prosperity discussion and policy.
On the communications and marketing sides the CPSL in collaboration with HRH Trusts are looking at the communications and marketing needs to package climate information properly for different audiences.  On the science side the IPPC is doing this as well. We're doing it with a lot of world institutions too.
Regarding the US marketing campaign being launched by the Carbon War Room What I propose that we bring in the Hub coalition that was in Cancun on this topic….
We need to change this around to a marketing strategy.

Peter, Carbon War Room:
We came up with the idea… but then realized we were one of the spokes, not the hub. Our job isn't to argue about science. We can create the team to make it happen.

Manish Joshi, GCCA:
We do lack good leaders who have convening power. Maybe that's a deal.

Sandrine:
Maybe we need to have a list of leaders.

Greg, AON:
I have a suggestion for a deal -- the way business leaders are trained. Getting business schools.

Sandrine:
CPSL is now working with Business School Associations to get this off the ground and train business school faculty on sustainability and climate change.

To summarise what we covered today:
* deals need to happen at different levels
* unleashing deals -- the possibilities of a fund, being able to show there's a preference for certain products because of their climate impact
* information -- huge gap what businesses are doing and what policy makers actually think businesses are  doing
* bringing stakeholders to a neutral environment for discussion
* rating on desalination plants, and putting the financial mechanisms in place for it
* deals that can be done with the consumer (looking at resource scarcity and demand management)
* the bottled water deal happening here in London, and its coolness factor
* ocean and sharks -- a work in progress
* ocean as the lung of the world -- an idea that's completely missed
* climate communication marketing deal focusing on the US -- do we organize a meeting on just that topic
* way to reconfigure Coca-Cola/Pepsi business model (getting one company to move other companies)… tablets in water rather than bottled water
* using the power of example and social proof at government level (eg use of plastic bags)
* working with climate scientists to help them increase their profile (eg have a pro services group producing snappy peer-review videos as a new form of publication of  scientific results)
* getting unions (and others) involved to switch jobs from dirty to clean energy, transition programs, etc (there are more new jobs in wind than in coal)
* military -- linked to US campaign (eg the Navy switching to renewables, global micro grids)
* Cambridge meeting on 9 Feb… getting CEOs, policy makers, etc involved
* we need to be the back office for the big shots to get the work done -- can we have a network of experts to supply after a pre-meeting well thought-out policy options before the meeting (sherpas)
* The possibility of Deal making workshops/change labs offered by Oxford and Cambridge