Earth Convention online talks
Rathbones has partnered with 5 x 15, one of London’s leading cultural events organisations, to bring you a series of online Zoom talks on climate change and to ask the questions that need to be answered.
This is a critical time in the world’s response to climate change and the environment. The realities can no longer be ignored – from the Arctic to Australia, and our own changing weather patterns. If we are to tackle the issue every sector of society will have to play its part: energy, food, fashion, transport, finance. Why is it so hard for people to take steps towards solutions? Where does responsibility lie – with us, businesses or governments? What are the most effective things that we can do? And can we turn the pandemic into a defining moment in the fight against climate change? To explore the issues Rathbones and 5 x 15 have teamed up to launch the Earth Convention – a series of online events bringing together world experts for online conversations, focusing on both the problems as well as the opportunities and the actions that we can all take.
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Webinar: The Earth Convention – Time for a reset? Speakers: View the recording |
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Webinar: The Earth Convention – Energy and finance Speakers: View the recording |
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Webinar: The Earth Convention – Consumers: fast fashion, manufacturing and plastics Speakers: View the recording |
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Webinar: The Earth Convention - What we eat and why it matters In this session we examined a range of issues with leading experts and innovators who are charting the way forward from what has been exposed about the global food system by the coronavirus crisis to what constitutes sustainable eating? How are food producers changing and what policy innovations can make a difference? Speakers: Professor Tim Benton – Director of Energy, Environment and Resources Department at Chatham House View the recording |
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Webinar: The Earth Convention - Natural capital, biodiversity and oceans This fifth session of the Earth Convention explores how biodiversity - crucial to human, economic and planetary health - is declining faster than at any time in human history. It is thought that one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction. How has this happened, what are the consequences and what can be done?
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta is a professor of economics at Cambridge and the author of the Dasgupta Review, a major report published in February 2021. Commissioned by the UK Treasury, it is a global independent review of the economics of biodiversity, bringing economics and ecology together View the recording |
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Webinar: The Earth Convention - Sustainable cities From London to Singapore, Los Angeles to Shanghai, around the world cities are organising themselves in new ways to confront the challenge of climate change. In this session we explore which cities across the world are taking the greenest initiatives and showing the most promise. Speakers:
Chris Boardman – Olympic gold medallist and Greater Manchester's first cycling and walking commissioner
Isabel Dedring – global transport leader at Arup
Rohan Silva – founder and CEO of Second Home; Kate Elliot, deputy head of ethical, sustainable and impact research for Rathbone Greenbank Investments.
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