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CO-CREATING A BETTER FUTURE EMILY DODD Director & Editor in Chief WHIS Media
As we near COP26, we are reminded of the climate crisis and the irrefutable damage that our planet is facing. As the Greenland icesheet melts and the Amazon dries out, the Earth will no longer mask our warming and instead accelerate it if current conditions aren’t reversed. What we need now, more than ever, is a sense of dynamism and urgency. Humanity has never faced such a desperate challenge as the one presented by climate change, and extraordinary solutions will be required if catastrophe is to be avoided.
“All the innovation, wealth and political will in the world will not be enough to save our civilisations. Our natural world will go from being our biggest ally to our biggest foe.” – Sir David Attenborough
Six years on from the 2015 Paris Agreement, COP26 is a key moment to reflect on our progress but also ramp up commitments to ensure that our climate action targets will be met in the short, medium, and long terms. With 30,000 delegates due to attend the conference from almost every country in the world, now is the time to look towards the future and realise the solutions we need to make together to reverse this disaster before it’s too late. Human activities are increasingly influencing the climate and the earth’s temperature – there is no doubt that human contribution has impacted the future of our planet. Global cooperation is necessary if we are to address what is truly the greatest challenge of all time. Whether we succeed in building a sustainable future depends on how we approach the challenge of designing and implementing solutions to this intractable problem.
