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“The Climate School” – equipping every employee to play their part in tackling the climate crisis

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The Climate School powered by Kite Insights aims to equip all employees with the knowledge (head), motivation (heart), and tools (hands) to become true leaders and take action on climate and other sustainability issues.

Disclosure: the latest addition to my portfolio career is being a Kite Insights Fellow

The problem: while companies are making increasingly bold sustainability commitments…few are transforming their organizations at the pace or scale needed to positively impact nature and climate change. Achieving net-zero targets requires radical transformation of every aspect of a company.

At the same time, the latest survey (Every Job is a Climate Job) shows that 83% of employees are ready to take action in the context of their work, irrespective of their seniority, gender, or function. So there is a huge employee engagement opportunity.

The solution: The Climate School – We activate employees’ readiness, willingness, and ability to act through an education and engagement program designed to boost: climate knowledge, climate conscience, and climate action.

The approach: Evaluate measuring employee readiness with our proprietary Climate Action Readiness Assessment (CARA). Based on the results we move to educate and co-develop customized engagement and learning journeys that include e-modules, workshops, and masterclasses by the level of knowledge, function, level of seniority, and geography. Armed with a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities, we further support our clients to activate employees, facilitating ideas for change, and how they can advocate and lead on these issues aligned with corporate business and sustainable strategies.

Learning about “Regeneration” 3 recommendations

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Regeneration this word/approach/concept/movement is now everywhere. Here are 3 recommendations: a book, a video and an article that provide excellent guidance to understand and follow this important movement.

1.One of the most remarkable books covering this subject is Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation by Paul Hawken. Regeneration is a radical new approach to the climate crisis, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation.

The book together with its companion website plot a pathway to achieve the goals outlined by the report “Global Warming of 1.5°C” published by the IPCC in October 2021. The book concludes with a section titled “Action and Connection” showing the solutions in detail and actions to be taken. It also includes an ever growing wiki of climate actions for the most important Nexus. Nexus are large complex issues that intersect multiple institutions, geographies, cultures, and people, but which do not fall under a single category of action or impact. Plastic, global fishing fleets, and palm oil are three prime examples (from the book Regeneration by Paul Hawken)

2. Regeneration Speech by Walmart CEO Doug McMillon (13 min)

A seminal speech by Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart. The company has been very active with their sustainability efforts since 2005. In 2020 they committed to become a regenerative company and explains in detail how they will achieve this goal.

3. Surfing Big Waves of Regeneration: John Elkington interviews Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard

An insightful interview by the Godfather of modern sustainability, John Elkington and the founder of Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, a rock climber, surfer, innovator, environmentalist, entrepreneur and outdoor industry billionaire businessman.