Download - Creating A Better World - Sustainable Future and the Common Good - Conference Keynote Speaker
Dr Patrick Dixon Chairman Global Change Ltd
SustainAgilityHow can we create a better future ?
Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, Author of 15 books and has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50)
Creating a Better World - Sustainable Future and the Common Good - Keynote for Zermatt Summit
Foundation (2012)
500 videos of keynoteswww.youtube.com/pjvdixon
over 4 million views
www.globalchange.com14 million unique visitors
Crisis of Purpose at Work
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What kinds of things do you want to be remembered for
What are you investing in?
DOING GOOD•What would you like to be known for – if you had the talent?
•Top of list: Doing good / being kind / great person
Living Life Backwards – living today how you want to remember tomorrow
Building a Better World• Basis of all advertising• Every marketing campaign• Every mission statement• All leadership• All change management• All government • Every business activity• Every human passion
• EU 20,000 if you can find a business exception to this universal rule
All sales based on a promisePurpose of business is to deliver on the promise
Profit is your reward for doing so
Purpose of Business
ALL BIG TRENDS ARE RELATED
Middle Class --> 300m India - 100m Africa
The future is about
The future is about
EMOTION
1 billion children cities
How most people talk about sustainability
“Caring for the planet - for the sake of future
generations”
$40 Trillion Green Tech Boom driven by oil price, cost cuts, green activism
Data accepted widely
Science of global warming might possibly turn out to be incorrect, but it is highly influential
“US emissions of CO2 equivalent to a carpet
of CO2 = 33cmsthick each year over
entire land mass”
Source: „Vostok“ (Antarctica) ice cores, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA
350-393ppm in 30 years x
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420,000 Years - CO2 and Earth Temperature
”Dip equivalent to 0.5 mile of ice over some of northern hemisphere 15,000 years ago”
“400,000 sq miles of Arctic ice melted in 30 years”
China water crisis“In 20 years, 18,000 square miles of ice melted”“3000 out of 4000 Tibetan lakes dried up”“Yellow river dried up recently for 226 days”
Oil >$100 a barrel accelerates innovationEven strong climate sceptics “go green”
120,000 terawatts of sunlight /day7,000 times total global power usePower Moscow from Libyan Desert
“33-49% EU power = wind by 2050” Surplus wind to methane ?Gas power - load balancing
120,000 terawatts of sunlight /day7,000 times total power use
QUEBEC from ARIZONA
Solar cell generation parity <7-10 yrs
•Only 5% EU power crosses borders
Enough salt caverns to power germany for a week
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Problem of Old Tires – gassification
Gas + Rubber
30 million acres lost
EU 5% gasoline and diesel from food
25% of 2010 US grain fuel30% US grain burnt in cars
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Power + Food
Recycle Metal
70% less energy 40% less water85% less air pollution75% less water pollution
Street Lights - Philips5% 2% of US / EU energyPayback period 4 years 120 million EU street lamps 75% replace in 15 years at unit cost of $750 including labour
Go further than you have to
“Compliance” lags behind public opinion
Innovation: Intel + Chandler City - US1.5m gallons a day into $19m desalination plant Pumped into sandstone acquiferReplaces 75% of water used by factoryGood relationship with local government planners / image / morale
Build a Better Worldindividual family community world
Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, Author of 15 books and has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50)
Creating a Better World - Sustainable Future and the Common Good - Keynote for Zermatt Summit
Foundation (2012)
500 videos of keynoteswww.youtube.com/pjvdixon
over 4 million views
www.globalchange.com14 million unique visitors