Climate action: Insights from the Climate Ambassador Program
In recent months, our 15 Climate Ambassadors have been able to steadily expand their knowledge.
How can we mitigate climate change and limit global warming to at least below two degrees? This question was the focus of the three-hour workshop attended by the Climate Ambassadors and several other interested colleagues at the end of May.
The workshop was held by Friedhelm Boschert (co-founder and Managing Director of the Mindful Finance Institute, Oxford, and Chairman of OIKOCREDIT Austria) and Alexandra Bolena (management consultant on alternative investments and sustainable and ecological investments). Interest groups whose roles were taken on were defined before the start of the event. These included
- Industry and trade
- Conventional energy
- Clean technology
- Land, agriculture & forests
- Developing countries
- Environmental non-governmental organisations
These groups then set out to find effective measures for environmental protection that everyone could agree on. In the workshop, the groups first discussed and then negotiated with each other at a fictitious UN summit.
The EN-ROADS simulator was used to test the impact of the measures discussed on climate change live. En-ROADS is a global climate simulator that can be used to analyse the effects of dozens of political measures - such as the electrification of transport, carbon pricing and the improvement of agricultural practices - on hundreds of factors such as energy prices, temperature, air quality and sea level rise. As a result, the workshop tweaked a wide variety of levers to prevent the climate crisis - although the participants also had to make compromises. By the end of the session, they had achieved their goal and decided on measures that would keep global warming below two degrees.
The simulation showed all participants how complex the issue of climate change is - but also how many different options there are for effective measures.
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