#18 Paul Dickinson - preventing dangerous climate change

Host Pete Burden speaks with Paul Dickinson. In 2000, Paul founded the Climate Disclosure Project (CDP) with an ambitious goal: to create a global economic system that prevents climate change. It does this by persuading 650 of the world’s largest investors, over 24,000 of the largest companies in the world, and over 1000 cities to report annually on their key sustainability metrics.

From this context, Paul describes his experience and practice for getting people involved - from the way he thinks about the world, and the way business works, to the role of repetition and persistence. From the role of ‘small p’ politics, selling and language, to the value of different kinds of policy, including science-based policy.

Today, Paul continues to work entrepreneurially in the area of 'sustainability’ (a difficult word!) via a variety of roles, including co-hosting a weekly climate podcast: Outrage + Optimism.

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