What's Next: Building Climate-Positive Organizations | IFTF Vantage
Join world-class experts and your peers from across industries for a deep-dive into a new climate of ideas for driving climate action.
Date and time
Location
Online
About this event
How will climate change
change what you *and your organization* do?
Join us live-online for two half-days on Feb 10-11 to explore what organizations can do now to position themselves as climate-positive organizations in the coming decade and beyond, hosted by IFTF Vantage.
As we begin rebuilding from the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 promises a new landscape for tackling urgent futures. Chief among these is the climate crisis.
The climate crisis will be perhaps the most important defining force of the next several decades—and the decisions we make in the 2020s will be critical to mitigating some of the darkest scenarios. Over the coming decades, we will face a world transformed by climate change. The big question is: Can we act now to mitigate some of the worst scenarios and guide this transformation to a future we want?
IFTF Vantage, Institute for the Future's organizational partnership program, is focusing our 2021 research on the role of organizations in navigating the climate crisis by asking: What is a climate-positive organization? And what will organizations need to do to reinvent themselves as climate positive organizations for the next decade and beyond?
(Questions? Please scroll to the bottom of this page for FAQs.)
Agenda Overview
DAY 1: Wednesday, February 10
All times PST
1:00 PM—INTRODUCTION | Welcome to a Climate of New Ideas
Dylan Hendricks, IFTF Vantage Co-Director
Brad Kreit, IFTF Vantage Director of Research
Welcome and sneak peek of IFTF Vantage's ongoing research into the future of climate-positive organizations.
1:20 PM—KEYNOTE | Where Are We Trying to Go: Possibilities for 2050
Jamais Cascio, IFTF Distinguished Fellow
Dive into the kinds of revolutionary changes needed over the next thirty years to create a truly climate-positive future.
2:00 PM—CONVERSATION | Technology Catalysts for a Climate Positive Future
Rachel Maguire, IFTF Research Director
Ramez Naam, Clean Energy Advocate
Jamais Cascio, IFTF Distinguished Fellow
Explore how our technologies can be catalysts for climate transformation.
3:00 PM—CONVERSATION | Collective Challenges and Response Strategies in a Climate-Disrupted World
Jake Dunagan, IFTF Governance Futures Lab Director
Beth Sawin, Co-Founder and Co-Director of Climate Interactive
Explore better frameworks for thinking and doing that consider whole systems and extended timeframes.
4:00PM—ADJOURN FOR THE DAY
DAY 2: Thursday, February 11
All times PST
8:00 AM—WELCOME BACK | Key Insights from Day 1
Bob Johansen, IFTF Distinguished Fellow
Contemplate key insights from earlier sessions guided by best-selling author and expert futurist Bob Johansen.
8:10 AM—KEYNOTE | All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson, Author, Strategist, and Teacher
Join us for Dr. Wilkinson’s lively and impassioned case for a climate-positive future that serves all of us. Dr. Wilkinson's writings include The Drawdown Review (2020), the New York Times bestseller Drawdown (2017), and All We Can Save (2020), an anthology of writings by women climate leaders, co-edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.
9:00 AM—CONVERSATION | Accelerating Climate-Positive Tipping Points with Behavioral Transformation
Vanessa Mason, IFTF Vantage Research Director
Roope Oskari Kaaronen, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Amsterdam
Discuss behavioral tipping points that can propel cascades of climate positivity and uncover arenas for action.
10:00 AM—CONVERSATION | Climate Positive Finance: The Economy of Ecology
Georgia Gillan, IFTF Research Manager
Kevin Bayuk, Partner at LIFT Economy; Senior Financial Fellow at Project Drawdown
Dive into economic models that could incentivize businesses to reduce their impacts and contributions to climate change, and stimulate climate positive practices and models.
11:00 AM—EVENT ADJOURNS
Frequently Asked Questions
Will the event be recorded and available afterwards for viewing?
This is a live-attendance-only virtual event.
I can only attend one of the two half-days ... is that okay?
We recommend attending both half-days, but we recognize that scheduling challenges are occasionally unavoidable, so feel free to attend one or both days.
Do I need to register for this event to join?
Yes.
How do I join the convening?
This event will be hosted live online. All you will need to join is Internet access and a web browser.
When do I get the event link?
You will receive an email with your link to the event livestream on February 9, 2021, 24 hours before event kick off. (This will be sent to the email address you provided at registration.)