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		<title>Why melting glaciers means cleaner, cheaper cars</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20100302cleanercars.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we focus on news that reinforces our environmental challenges, of which there’s no shortage, we forget just how exciting the opportunities in fixing them are and how fast these solutions are now accelerating. Every story about melting icecaps or raging floods brings a smarter, cleaner world closer. My favourite example at the moment is electric cars. While they had a bad start, we are now on the verge of the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for, with around 30 models coming into the market from the major car companies and new start-ups over the next 3 years.

If we get this right, it’s hard to overstate the significance of the upside. This is a real game changer for our transport and energy systems. Forget any old ideas you have about niche markets, limited range and slow cars. There are some very exciting cars on the way and some business concepts that could change not just personal transport but the whole electricity sector. How will this unfold?]]></description>
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		<title>The World After Copenhagen – A Return to the Rational?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout my 35 years in sustainability it has always seemed odd that while so-called economic rationalism reigned over our political, economic and business worlds, rational thought wasn’t applied to issues like climate change. The risks were always clear, as defined by rational science, while a logical analysis of the economics showed acting early was cheaper than acting late. Yet a strange kind of religious and ideological zealotry took hold, as otherwise sensible, educated people ignored rational thought. It was a failure of reason.

While Copenhagen failed to deliver any agreement however, it may well mark a return to rational thought and with it some profound shifts in markets, politics and our approach to sustainability. Perhaps historians will mark this point and refer to the world BC and AC - Before Copenhagen and After Copenhagen.

What will historians say changed at the end of 2009? And if we could read their conclusions now, would it change our present responses - not as historians but as the creators of that history? Perhaps they will write something like this:]]></description>
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		<title>Why Copenhagen will fail and why that doesn’t matter</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20091217copenhagenfailure.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There will probably be some kind of agreement at Copenhagen. It’s hard to imagine all those world leaders walking away without one. However I’m not spending any time at all wondering what the result will be. Why? Because it just doesn’t matter.

You see we’re not ready to fix climate change, not yet. We have not accepted the scale of the problem. Nor have we established the political conditions necessary to fix the problem when we do. However Copenhagen does signify the shift between two eras and if you watch carefully you can see the new world emerging. That is the interesting thing happening at Copenhagen.

But before I move on to that, let me go back, because most of you are probably stuck on my statement that the result at Copenhagen doesn’t matter. Isn’t this the most important meeting in history? Surely failure here will set us back a decade? Surely having a global agreement of any type would be an important first step? No, no and no. Here’s why.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to prepare for The One Degree War</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20091106-odw-launch.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the noise of the day-to-day debates, we have lost sight of the simple logic of the advice coming from the world’s top climate scientists. Despite the uncertainties in the details, the science carries one underlying message from which we can draw only one rational conclusion.

It is time to declare a global emergency and mobilise all available resources, political will and human ingenuity towards one task – to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change to an acceptable level.

Today, we are releasing a paper detailing our response to this conclusion. ‘The One Degree War Plan’ began to take form a few years ago, the product of a challenging conversation between myself and Professor Jorgen Randers. Jorgen, a lifelong advocate for action on sustainability, rose to prominence in 1972 as one of the original authors of the Club of Rome’s famous “Limits to Growth”, the bestselling environmental book of all time - over 30 million copies in 37 different languages.

Jorgen and I had both accepted the scientific reality and were discussing the question it posed - what would a rational response to the climate science look like? If you stripped away all the politics and debate and took a fresh look, what would be the logical action plan?]]></description>
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		<title>The climate giant awakes. Have we turned a corner?</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20091008climategiantawakes.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers may be a little surprised by this column. I am regularly arguing that the science shows we are inevitably approaching, or may have past, a tipping point where widespread, rolling ecological and economic crises take hold.

But there’s another critical tipping point, of a very different character – where the world’s political and business leaders turn firmly towards action. Here’s the surprise – I think we may be at this tipping point already.

Scientists have become increasingly alarmed in recent years, as climate change reality has raced ahead of the political response. They point to countless examples of accelerating feedbacks, such as the reduction in the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2 and rapid Arctic melting. While they regularly point these out to our political masters, many of them express despair at the slow response.

So on what basis do I think the global political system has started to turn?]]></description>
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		<title>“It is, sadly, probably too late to save much of Australia”</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/toolateforaustralia.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is, sadly, probably too late to save much of Australia”.  With these disconcerting words Joe Romm, from the leading US climate blog “climateprogress.com”, reacted yesterday to Sydney’s dust storms. Joe Romm is no casual blogger and I take his views very seriously, as do others. His writing has been described by NYT’s Tom Friedman as “indispensible” and the U.S. News &#038; World Report called him “one of the most influential energy and environmental policymakers in the Obama era”.

So is Joe Romm right? Is Australia’s environment now past a point of no return in terms of climate change impacts? Are we already in an ecological crash?]]></description>
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		<title>The Parallel Universes of Climate Change. Where do you live?</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20090910paralleluniverses.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 05:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some days my head hurts, as I shift between what feels like two parallel universes in the climate change debate. First I have these conversations with world-class scientists who calmly lay out the scientific view of the various risks posed by climate change and their relative scale and likelihoods. They tell me the science says it is almost certain the impacts will be serious and destabilising for our society and our economy. The science also describes a lower level of risk - which they find hard to quantify but generally say between 10% and 50% - that the impacts of climate change will be catastrophic, perhaps even civilisation threatening. This could include widespread famine, war and economic collapse. Not certain, but a reasonable possibility.

It is very clear when you listen to these scientists and read their peer-reviewed reports that, on any calm and rational analysis, we should be preparing for a carbon reduction war. Yes, a war - with all that implies about focus, effort and sacrifice. The threat posed is, after all, a “clear and present danger” and the response should be strong, global and immediate. This should be a ‘whatever it takes’ moment.

Then I shift into the parallel universe.]]></description>
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		<title>Antarctica’s Pine Island glacier and its implications for business strategy</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20090818pineisland.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my work with companies around the world, one of my key messages is that business strategy needs to be based on science. The logic is simple. Whereas most future planning involves an array of complicated and interrelated uncertainties – like technology shifts, political moods, consumer behaviour, competitor actions – science is delightfully predictable. That’s the thing about physics and biology, the rules were written long ago.

Furthermore, climate science is deeply relevant and material to most businesses and to all economies. Therefore this week’s report (see here for BBC summary) that the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica was melting 4 times faster than it was just 10 years ago, and is now dropping at 16 metres per year, should strike fear into the hearts of oil company executives and bring delight to the CFOs of electric car companies like Better Place (yes, such is the perverse logic of climate science in the business community).

Why is it so significant?]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Disruption &#8211; now available in most media formats!</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20090722-gd-link.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m often asked by readers where they can find an overview of my ideas around the Great Disruption and where society is heading, so they can revisit them or share them with friends and family. In our information, media and idea rich world this now of course has to come in many different formats.

Thanks to the University of Sydney’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions my presentation was recorded when I spoke at the Sydney Ideas lecture series and is now available for download.]]></description>
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		<title>Why 350 is the most important number (and campaign?) on earth</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20090715-350-campaign.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 35 years involved in social change campaigns, I don’t easily get excited about new ideas and campaign approaches. Not that we lack good campaigns mind you. With millions of people now out there pushing the boundaries and creatively exploring new ways to cut through our busy lives, there’s some really good stuff going on. Examples include the 1millionwomen campaign that I’ll be writing about in a future column and the amazing explosion of youth campaigning around the world.

Recently though one idea struck me as having the potential to be a real game changer, not to mention a damn clever idea. I’m writing to you about it because I want you to get involved and lend your support. If this campaign is successful it has the potential to shift the global climate debate in a really important way. Here’s why.]]></description>
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