Bomb Cyclones Means Business Must Act
Delighted that Harvard Business Review has published my latest blog today, entitled: 'Climate Change Is An Overwhelming Problem. Here Are 4 Things Executives Can Do Today.' They are great to work with, substantially improving my writing and structure! Any comments very welcome. Can't help but feel that 2018 will see a massive increase in the temperature of the climate debate.
Senior Sustainability Leader | Advocate for Global Environmental Responsibility | Senior Expert on Plastic Pollution, Waste Trade, Marine Litter and Microplastics in the EU & at UN Level
7 年Well put pictures in words to express scenarios, networked-trends and weak signals. I am looking forward to utilize the energy of this vortex.
Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans
7 年Thank you.
Multi-disciplinary innovation
7 年Hi John, will send some papers. The vortex system referred to in the HBR blog is described in the papers as a sequence of transitions in which the global economy responds so as to avoid key climate change risks. One of the critical risks is the potential submersion of hundreds of nuclear reactors at coastlines during 2nd half of this century. An illustration of capture into the vortex and initial reconstruction to form primitive Undivided forms is pictured in the stage 1 - stage 5 diagram of https://beetfusion.com/forum/supply-chains-transition An example of advanced systems to facilitate rapid corporate reconstruction is illustrated in https://beetfusion.com/forum/remote-digital-twins Remote systems using drone and satellite imagery are used quickly to identify and quantify avoidable CO2 at equipment level inside each building/facility across the planet. More advanced systems incorporate self-design of the U-form, from which non-U-forms emerge. It is the non-U-forms that are the building blocks proper of a low-carbon economy.
Founder & Chief Pollinator at Volans
7 年Any sources on this very welcome, Michael. My email is john at volans dot com.
Multi-disciplinary innovation
7 年That is a very good article John. Those four activities (plunge into the data | embark on a learning journey | raise the price of carbon | invert the vortex) really are crucial in working out how to respond to the challenge. The vortex analogy is quite apt as it speaks to the process of enterprises transforming in such a way that they become hugely sensitive and responsive to their surroundings. Trying to hold onto and control the silos of the old economy is not going to work during the transitions about to take hold. In early literature describing the carbon-constrained transformation process the new (transitory) forms of organisations were described as U-forms, or Unidivided forms, as the boundaries become diffused away enabling fast synchronisation. The coupling process, when enteprise chains link strongly together and flip into new low-carbon modes will be challenging but will at least signal a positive movement towards climate safety.