In a World Unhinged: Scaling Systemic Climate Actions
Join us for an evening of thoughtful discussions addressing fragmentation, competition, and insufficient funding for transformation. Hear insights on how a new form of collaboration can emerge to solve the most pressing challenges of our time.
Featuring: The Systemic Climate Action Collaborative
- Kirsten Dunlop, CEO, Climate-KIC (as Moderator)
- Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Co-President, Club of Rome
- Yash Ranga, Director of Innovation & Strategy, Pyxera Global
- Eva Gladek, Founder & CEO, Metabolic
- Leah Seligmann, CEO, B-Team
Wake Up. Despite intensifying warnings from the IPCC, visible signs of climate change, and escalating biodiversity loss, our efforts to halt and reverse global warming and adapt to its adverse effects remain dangerously insufficient. Climate change effects are beginning to eat into fiscal room for response as insurability of infrastructure reduces and costs of catastrophic events like Valencia in Spain, rise. Economic, social and political stability is a critical issue, as polycrisis intensifies derailment risk, growing anger, fear and despair. Democracy is increasingly in crisis- only 8% of the world’s population now live in a full democracy, while almost 40% live under authoritarian rule. Petrostates like the United States and Saudi Arabia are expected to explicitly deter climate policy, while further ramping up fossil fuel expansion, starkly at odds with a world now already passing the Paris Agreement relative safety threshold of 1.5 degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels. Some countries in Europe, Africa, and Latin America have increased political focus on climate action through ‘green’ or ‘clean’ policies, but our efforts are severely inadequate to transform the human design for life required in the next two decades.
Engage. And yet, cities and regions are taking action, despite the paralysis and politics of national governments. Bioregional alliances and facilities are forming, increasingly led by indigenous groups. Direct democracy initiatives are growing in spread and momentum at multiple scales. As businesses tackle the challenges of CSRD compliance and regulatory-led change such as Europe’s Carbon Board Adjustment Mechanism, they are beginning to reach for more effective decarbonization and resilience solutions, materials and resources-efficient business models, and supply chain partnerships. These actions drive hope. And yet, individual projects and programmes, individual solutions, and small amounts of impact and philanthropic capital are like droplets of water in a landscape that are much-needed and beneficial but limited in their impact as long as they are isolated. A paradigm shift in ways of working and funding is needed to create the conditions for these droplets to form a watershed that is sustained over time and resilient.
Collaborate. Bold systemic action is our only way forward. As the global climate crisis deepens, the need for a holistic, systems-oriented approach has never been more urgent. Climate change is not a singular issue but a complex web of interrelated challenges that demand integrated solutions. Addressing it is about people—empowering communities, fostering sustainable businesses and economies, and nurturing capabilities. It requires holistic strategies that protect our environment and enhance species and biodiversity. This is a collective, urgent task to secure our future and future generations.
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This event is hosted at the Climate Hub Davos, a regenerative impact-space at the beautiful culture centre around nature and climate: www.green-up.ch/climatehubdavos. All sessions are streamed on wedonthavetime.org/davos2025
