Creatively United for the Planet | Where Do We Go From Here? – Season 2 Finale @creativelyunited | Uploaded November 2020 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
The final webinar in Season 2 of the Climate and Artist Series tackles the question: ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ A panel of leading solution advocates outline their unique answers to this question.
Unlike COVID-19, there is no vaccine for curing the climate crisis. At best, we have to become carbon neutral by mid-century to have any change of managing this existential threat.
On November 19, 2020, the federal government tabled legislation committing Canada to become carbon neutral by 2050. This final webinar will outline some solutions which we will be exploring in more detail in Season 3 starting in January, 2021.
Additional Q&A can be found here:
creativelyunited.org/where-do-we-go-from-here-creative-solutions-for-a-new-world-season-2-finale
Bob Sandford, Global Water Futures Chair in Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, will start the discussion by graphically demonstrating the urgency of taking action now for achieving carbon neutrality. He will illustrate the real possibility of uncontrolled release of methane gases due to thawing of permafrost regions.
Methane has a huge impact on climate but if not controlled by rapid reduction in human sources of carbon could threaten the prospect of carbon neutrality by mid century. Bob will also comment on how artists are beginning to depict this crisis to engage the public emotionally.
Washington, DC lawyer and leading political analyst, Mace Rosenstein, who has effectively reviewed the US election in past webinars, will update us on the state of the US election and the prospects of a Biden Administration successfully achieving carbon neutrality.
Jon O’Riordan, a former Deputy Minister of the Environment and our Climate and the Arts partner, will illustrate the vital importance of resorting ecological health to damaged ecosystems not only to increase carbon storage, but also buffer against more extreme climate events.
Jon’s brother, Tim O’Riordan, who is President of the Norfolk Association of Local Councils connecting all 722 Parish Councils in Norfolk and John Pennell, Chairman: Well Being Initiative, Norfolk Association of Local Councils, will join us from the UK to demonstrate how local Parish Councils in England are encouraging citizens to reduce their individual carbon footprints by ‘one tonne by ’21’ when the Paris Climate Accord is reviewed.
Professor Tim O’Riordan is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He received an OBE in 2010, is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk, served as Sheriff of Norwich (2009-10), and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He holds an MA in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, an MS in Water Resources Engineering from Cornell University, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. In June 2013, he was awarded the honour of Distinguished Friend of Oxford.
Webinar host, Frances Litman, will comment on how a change in universal consciousness is an essential element in achieving carbon neutrality.
Finally, hear from three youth, a British Columbian, an Albertan and an American, organized by Katia Bannister, who will share what is next to come for youth climate activists, especially after the recent elections for the premier of B.C. and the president of the United States. How do youth think the results of these elections will impact community organizing at the grassroots level? How, moving forward, do youth organizers and activists hope to influence policy? And how can the Creatively United Community help?
Mackenzie Cumming (she/her) is 15 years old and resides in Calgary, Alberta. Despite having only formally joined the climate movement in February of 2020, she has been advocating for climate action and social justice since elementary school. She is a youth organizer with Fridays for Future Calgary and Climate Strike Canada.
Katia Bannister (she/they) is a 17 year old youth climate activist and community organizer from Thetis Island, B.C., on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish and Hul’qumi’num speaking people. She leads the Cowichan Valley Earth Guardians crew, organizes with the Vote16BC campaign and works with the BC Youth Council. She is passionate about restoration and conservation work, blogging, and photography.
Natalie Bookout (she/her) is a 14 year old activist with Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion Youth, and volunteers with Greenpeace international.
The webinar is capped by a viola performance by Jon O’Riordan’s nephew, Evan Hesketh.
The final webinar in Season 2 of the Climate and Artist Series tackles the question: ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ A panel of leading solution advocates outline their unique answers to this question.
Unlike COVID-19, there is no vaccine for curing the climate crisis. At best, we have to become carbon neutral by mid-century to have any change of managing this existential threat.
On November 19, 2020, the federal government tabled legislation committing Canada to become carbon neutral by 2050. This final webinar will outline some solutions which we will be exploring in more detail in Season 3 starting in January, 2021.
Additional Q&A can be found here:
creativelyunited.org/where-do-we-go-from-here-creative-solutions-for-a-new-world-season-2-finale
Bob Sandford, Global Water Futures Chair in Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, will start the discussion by graphically demonstrating the urgency of taking action now for achieving carbon neutrality. He will illustrate the real possibility of uncontrolled release of methane gases due to thawing of permafrost regions.
Methane has a huge impact on climate but if not controlled by rapid reduction in human sources of carbon could threaten the prospect of carbon neutrality by mid century. Bob will also comment on how artists are beginning to depict this crisis to engage the public emotionally.
Washington, DC lawyer and leading political analyst, Mace Rosenstein, who has effectively reviewed the US election in past webinars, will update us on the state of the US election and the prospects of a Biden Administration successfully achieving carbon neutrality.
Jon O’Riordan, a former Deputy Minister of the Environment and our Climate and the Arts partner, will illustrate the vital importance of resorting ecological health to damaged ecosystems not only to increase carbon storage, but also buffer against more extreme climate events.
Jon’s brother, Tim O’Riordan, who is President of the Norfolk Association of Local Councils connecting all 722 Parish Councils in Norfolk and John Pennell, Chairman: Well Being Initiative, Norfolk Association of Local Councils, will join us from the UK to demonstrate how local Parish Councils in England are encouraging citizens to reduce their individual carbon footprints by ‘one tonne by ’21’ when the Paris Climate Accord is reviewed.
Professor Tim O’Riordan is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. He received an OBE in 2010, is a Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk, served as Sheriff of Norwich (2009-10), and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He holds an MA in Geography from the University of Edinburgh, an MS in Water Resources Engineering from Cornell University, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. In June 2013, he was awarded the honour of Distinguished Friend of Oxford.
Webinar host, Frances Litman, will comment on how a change in universal consciousness is an essential element in achieving carbon neutrality.
Finally, hear from three youth, a British Columbian, an Albertan and an American, organized by Katia Bannister, who will share what is next to come for youth climate activists, especially after the recent elections for the premier of B.C. and the president of the United States. How do youth think the results of these elections will impact community organizing at the grassroots level? How, moving forward, do youth organizers and activists hope to influence policy? And how can the Creatively United Community help?
Mackenzie Cumming (she/her) is 15 years old and resides in Calgary, Alberta. Despite having only formally joined the climate movement in February of 2020, she has been advocating for climate action and social justice since elementary school. She is a youth organizer with Fridays for Future Calgary and Climate Strike Canada.
Katia Bannister (she/they) is a 17 year old youth climate activist and community organizer from Thetis Island, B.C., on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish and Hul’qumi’num speaking people. She leads the Cowichan Valley Earth Guardians crew, organizes with the Vote16BC campaign and works with the BC Youth Council. She is passionate about restoration and conservation work, blogging, and photography.
Natalie Bookout (she/her) is a 14 year old activist with Sunrise Movement, Extinction Rebellion Youth, and volunteers with Greenpeace international.
The webinar is capped by a viola performance by Jon O’Riordan’s nephew, Evan Hesketh.
