SECA – New connections and opportunities We recently attended the South-East Climate Alliance (SECA) annual conference in Brighton with a team of our Young Leaders to showcase what we’ve been working on, and where we can go from here! The day at SECA’s Annual Gathering, for us, was defined by our incredible Young Leaders who...
read moreWe are excited to share our Big Idea for 2024! COP28 is behind us and the focus now needs to move from negotiation to implementation. As part of our contribution around COP, we were inspired by the work of our Young Leaders in systems-mapping UK local government climate plans, our intergenerational event on 12th December...
read moreOver the past couple of months we have been running our Unite for UK Climate Action Campaign. We trained 100 Young Leaders to use the OnePlanet technology to create the first systems-map of all UK Local Government climate action. The Young Leaders used the OnePlanet platform to analyse the plans and present a Manifesto of climate action which showcased best practice and case studies.
read moreA guest blog by Melissa Zanocco OBE, industry transformation expert and CEO of Infrastructure Client Group. I believe that we need to create the future we want rather than being recipients of the future we get. To ensure a sustainable future for humankind and the planet, I see the future as a combination of outcome-focused, place-based decision-making...
read moreBack in September, we started an initiative to work with Young Leaders to systems-map all UK local government climate strategies into a single networked database. While mapping all strategies has proven to be over-optimistic… with nearly 50 mapped and connected we’re already learning a lot! On the central page you can see all the plans...
read moreIn a blog I posted back in January 2020 entitled New Reality, New Thinking, New Tools where I wrote about how understanding interconnectedness is at the heart of the new thinking we need to tackle the complex, interconnected problems we face today. I have worked in sustainability for over thirty years as a social entrepreneur and consultant as...
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