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PRESENTATION: The Business of Climate Change – with Corinne Sawers and Eric Lonergan.
The co-authors of Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster – More United co-founder Corinne Sawers and economist Eric Lonergan – explore how governments can work with key stakeholders like businesses to tackle climate change in the coming decades.
PRESENTATION: The Climate Challenge – with Steve Howard
Advances in technology give us reasons to be optimistic about the climate crisis. However, we need to scale new solutions and innovations at speed, focusing on making future growth and investment clean. Businesses are critical to this mission, and in this presentation, Temasek’s Chief Sustainability Officer Steve Howard will talk about the company’s role in the clean revolution.
PANEL DISCUSSION: Harnessing the Forces of Technological Change – with Matt Clifford, Dame Vivian Hunt and Herman Narula.
Author, investor and founder of Exponential View Azeem Azhar leads a discussion on what the technological revolution means for business and politics with Matt Clifford (co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First), Dame Vivian Hunt (senior partner of McKinsey & Co) and Herman Narula (co-founder and CEO of Improbable). In particular, the panel will explore how we can encourage both the public and private sectors to better shape their development and what skills are required to do this.
INTERVIEW: #Communicating in the Social Media Era – Evan Spiegel in conversation with Joanna Coles.
Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc, a social-media network used by 300 million people daily. In conversation with award-winning journalist and Snap board member Joanna Coles, he will explore how young people engage with politics and what governments can learn from companies like Snap.
Martin Lewis, the founder and chair of MoneySavingExpert.com, discusses how policy can help households through the cost-of-living crisis, and how reforms can make energy and financial markets work better.
In this panel event chaired by Emily Maitlis, Monica Harding, Mete Coban (founder of My Life My Say and Hackney Labour Councillor) and Rory Stewart (senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former Conservative cabinet minister) discuss the opportunity for a new type of politics in Britain – based on an exploration of extensive polling – which can help to deliver a new plan for the country’s future.
In this panel event chaired by Emily Maitlis, Monica Harding, Mete Coban (founder of My Life My Say and Hackney Labour Councillor) and Rory Stewart (senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former Conservative cabinet minister) discussed the opportunity for a new type of politics in Britain – based on an exploration of extensive polling – which can help to deliver a new plan for the country’s future.
In this panel event chaired by Emily Maitlis, Monica Harding, Mete Coban (founder of My Life My Say and Hackney Labour Councillor) and Rory Stewart (senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and former Conservative cabinet minister) discuss the opportunity for a new type of politics in Britain – based on an exploration of extensive polling – which can help to deliver a new plan for the country’s future.
A Plan for Britain with Monica Harding. Monica Harding, a 2019 Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate and director of The Britain Project, will draw on extensive polling to set the scene for the conference and show that while Britain faces profound challenges, it also lacks a plan to deal with them.
The Tony Blair Institute’s Senior Geopolitical Researcher Ruby Osman will outline the challenges that Britain faces and why it must evolve to respond to a changing world.
The Future of Britain – with Jason Arthur, Clover Hogan and Ruby Osman.
Mission 44 Chief Executive Jason Arthur, Force of Nature Founder and Executive Director Clover Hogan and the Tony Blair Institute’s Senior Geopolitical Researcher Ruby Osman, outline the challenges that Britain faces and why it must evolve to respond to a changing world.
Tony Blair, executive chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, welcoming the Conference
As we emerge from a global pandemic, a war rages on European soil, growth stalls and the cost-of-living bites, the country is crying out for a positive plan for the future. We are facing an unprecedented global crisis from climate change. The UK’s decision to leave the EU has put pressure on trade and our union. And we are living through the midst of the technological revolution.
There is a gaping hole in the governing of Britain where new ideas should be.
We are living through three revolutionary changes simultaneously and are ill-prepared for any of them. Each of them would require major changes to the way we work as a nation. All of them together pose a challenge which is unprecedented in recent history.
Boris Johnson is a terrible prime minister and a worse human being. But he is not a monster newly sprung from a rent between this world and the next. Twenty years have passed since the Conservative party first selected him as a candidate. Michael Howard and David Cameron made him a shadow minister, and Theresa May gave him the Foreign Office. Thirty years of celebrity made him famous for his mendacity, indifference to detail, poor administration, and inveterate betrayal of every personal commitment.
It was fantastic to have so many people at The Britain Project and Global Progress New Year roundtable, contributing to a wide-ranging and informative discussion. A particular thank you goes to David Rowson and Will Clothier from Yonder and Marcus Roberts from YouGov for their presentations that helped centre the conversation. A quick summary of some of the key themes are below:
We are in a time of huge political realignment in the UK. The establishment of The Britain Project is our response to this.
The realignment sees the dismantling of the old political tribes of left and right, red and blue walls – are apparently being taken apart, rendering the old political identities increasingly obsolete. With this, transactional but yet more emotive voting has risen to the fore, seemingly based on a value call rather than the ideologies of the old order, which no longer appear to have the answers.
PRESENTATION: The Business of Climate Change – with Corinne Sawers and Eric Lonergan.
The co-authors of Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster – More United co-founder Corinne Sawers and economist Eric Lonergan – explore how governments can work with key stakeholders like businesses to tackle climate change in the coming decades.