Who Do We Work With?
The complexity of the challenge we face requires a kaleidoscope of perspectives and approaches, and radical collaboration across and between them.
Imagine if we backed the 50 best solutions to the toughest global environmental challenges in a decade.
The Earthshot Prize, launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation, is the most prestigious environmental prize, designed to incentivise the changes needed in this decisive decade. Every year for the next ten years, The Earthshot Prize will award £1million each to five ground-breaking solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges. Global Optimism supports and advises The Earthshot Prize in a number of ways. Christiana Figueres is Chair of the Board of The Earthshot Prize Council responsible for selecting the annual Winners, and Tom Rivett-Carnac serves as a member of the Expert Advisory Panel.
What if we could mobilise influential leaders at every level to tackle climate change?
Future Stewards and TED have partnered together to create TED Countdown, elevating climate solutions to a commonly understood story amongst influential leaders who, in turn, are changing companies, governments and financial flows to embrace this pursuit.
Imagine if 1 billion people were engaging in climate action.
Count Us In is a growing movement of citizens changing their behaviours and the stories of their communities. Count Us In brings together a radical collaborative of over 100 organisations (and counting!) aiming to activate a billion citizens this decade, taking meaningful steps to protect what they love from the impacts of climate change, and together adding up to a seismic shift.
How can we shift social culture to a common understanding of the Net Zero + Nature Positive future?
We're working with Netflix Sustainability Advisory Board – aka Climate Avengers – to encourage the company and their staff, and more importantly, to find pathways to inspire thousands of creators to shape the stories that capture our imaginations.
We know that the stories we absorb and the signals of social culture are extremely powerful agents of change in societies around the world.
Can we accelerate the global transition to net zero emissions through private finance mobilisation?
Governments have an essential role to play in setting policies to foster a smooth transition to net zero emissions across the global economy, eliminating reliance on fossil fuels within the next couple decades and halting other sources of emissions such as deforestation. At the same time, the finance sector - which controls hundreds of trillions of dollars in assets globally - also must undertake a fundamental shift away from high carbon assets and into low- and zero-carbon opportunities. Asset Owners have a unique role in this context. As pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and philanthropies, they have long-term investment horizons and liabilities. They not only are acutely vulnerable to the systemic disruptions that climate change has begun to unleash on ecosystems, societies, and economies, but also are well positioned to help catalyse decarbonisation of the global economy and invest in climate resilience. We're proud to serve as strategic advisors to the Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance, with around $10tn in assets under management.
