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2 years ago 00:03 Pat Mitchell: Thank you, Halla. 00:05 You don’t look any worse the wear for having been on those front lines. 00:08 Halla Tómasdóttir: Well, it was quite the experience. 00:12 PM: And many times you were there in the important discussions and debates 00:17 that were going on 00:18 as world leaders were grappling to find the answers. 00:22 So help us understand what happened, what didn't. 00:25 What, in your opinion, were the outcomes of COP26? 00:29 HT: Thank you, Pat, and hello, everyone. 00:32 In short, we made progress, 00:35 but we are not on track to deliver the world we need. 00:39 And I'm a stubborn optimist, 00:41 so I want to uplift the ground we took, because it was important ground. 00:47 But I also want to be very clear that I left Glasgow 00:50 with a very visceral feeling 00:52 that there was this gaping generational and trust gap 00:56 that we are almost unable to bridge 00:59 because we have become so deeply divided 01:02 and we're essentially in a crisis of trust. 01:05 And so we're facing an existential climate crisis, 01:09 but the greatest barrier may be that we don't have trust. 01:12 And so let me try to give you a few things to feel hopeful for 01:17 that I do think came out of this COP 01:18 because I think it matters for us to spring into action to have hope. 01:22 And so what I would like to uplift, 01:25 number one, is that I think the agenda, 01:27 the climate agenda is becoming more holistic than it has been. 01:31 It's no longer just about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, 01:35 as important as that is. 01:36 Nature is on the agenda. 01:38 And we're at least talking about justice and inclusion. 01:41 We weren't doing that just a few years ago. 01:43 Now we need to act on it, but at least we're talking about it. 01:46 So a more holistic agenda. 01:47 Second, I believe this COP will be remembered 01:50 as the COP where business and finance showed up. 01:53 And we can say that doesn't matter 01:55 because the COP process is created for governments, 01:58 but that matters so much. 01:59 Governments cannot solve this alone. 02:01 We need public-private partnership, 02:03 and we need to be working with civil society. 02:05 We need radical collaboration, and I feel like that’s starting to happen. 02:09 I have some hope in that. 02:10 And then third, we saw some unlikely alliances. 02:13 We saw, well, B Team leaders and other business leaders 02:17 stand with the Climate Vulnerable Forum countries 02:20 that are contributing the least to this problem 02:22 but are being hit the hardest by them. 02:25 And we saw business leaders standing there with presidents of countries 02:28 that are dealing with terrible situations, 02:30 demanding that the Global North deliver the 100 billion for the Global South 02:35 and then some, 02:36 to help mitigate this crisis. 02:39 And last but not least, 02:41 we had actually accountants show up as the change catalysts 02:45 that may change the world, and who would have thought. 02:49 But we announced the International Sustainability Standards Board. 02:52 And this may not mean anything to many of us, 02:56 but it means everything to changing norms in business 02:59 because it means we're going to start measuring and disclosing what matters. 03:03 And so I think these things should all give us hope. 03:06 But let me not gloss over the fact 03:09 that we had these gaping gaps between the inside and the outside 03:14 that actually left me feeling that we have so much hard work to do now. 03:20 We can't leave that moment behind us. 03:22 We right now must rise. 03:24 We have a narrow window to deliver this future we need, 03:28 and it is going to take all of us leaning in, 03:31 not just around one global moment 03:33 but in one global movement of private sector, public servants 03:39 and civil society actors and activists 03:41 coming together in a more radically collaborative way 03:46 than we ever have before. 03:48 (Applause) 03:53 PM: Among the most hopeful outcomes was one you referenced, 03:58 that business leaders stepped up. 04:01 And that was in large part because of the leadership of the B Team, 04:04 who are business leaders committed to becoming more accountable 04:09 and to creating sustainable business practices, 04:12 going from being the perpetrators to the problem solvers. 04:16 So how is that happening? 04:19 HT: Well, let me start by saying the B Team leaders are not perfect. 04:23 None of us honestly are, 04:25 but they are global leaders from business and civil society 04:30 who have decided to put humanity at the heart of their leadership compass 04:34 and do the hard work to meet the climate crisis, 04:37 the crisis of inequality and the crisis of trust we are facing. 04:41 And so we're showing up, 04:43 placing the well-being of people and planet 04:46 alongside the pursuit of profit, 04:48 and that is long overdue. 04:51 But it is fortunately now becoming more of a mainstream agenda 04:56 than when the B Team was founded seven years ago. 04:59 And so we've been on this journey for seven, nearly eight years now, 05:03 and we’ve just put out something we call “The New Leadership Playbook” 05:06 and “10x Bolder” podcast 05:08 where we are actually sharing the journeys, 05:11 the stories of transforming businesses to be in service of a better world 05:16 and going deep in the conversations of why we do that as human beings. 05:21 And actually sharing the questions we should be asking now, 05:24 because this is not a moment where we have all the answers, 05:27 but we know we need to be asking the hard questions 05:30 and sharing some of the resources 05:31 that can help businesses and leaders who want to go on this journey. 05:35 Because the window is now, and we need everyone to join us. 05:38 And more importantly, while in COP, 05:40 we put out a statement 05:42 where we put out our assessment of what was going on in Glasgow, 05:45 and we promised to convene a global dialogue 05:49 of multiple stakeholders in 2022. 05:52 It could be dialogues. 05:54 We are yet to design it. 05:55 But really bring people together across these deep divides, 05:59 because there is no way from here to where we want to go, 06:04 a future where we can love where we live, 06:07 by going it alone anymore. 06:09 It’s going to take radical collaboration, 06:11 and we can't love where we live 06:13 unless we keep the world on track for 1.5 degree warming, 06:19 above pre-industrial levels. 06:20 Unless we bring nature into the solutions 06:24 and start reversing 06:26 or halting first, and then reversing nature loss. 06:29 And unless we start making this about a just and inclusive transition 06:34 for all of humanity. 06:36 And this is going to be the hardest work we ever do, 06:40 but we created this world so we can co-create a world 06:44 where we love where we live. 06:45 And I don't know a single human being 06:47 that doesn't feel deeply frustrated with the moment we are in 06:51 and is interested in navigating this transition to a better future. 06:56 And that's the work that we have to do in the next eight years. 07:01 The most difficult work of our lifetimes has to happen in the next few years. 07:06 PM: The B Team and other business leaders who were there, 07:09 you've also developed some really specific actions 07:12 and things you believe need to change. 07:16 Share this with us. 07:17 HT: So if we want to love where we live, 07:19 we have to change who, 07:22 to change how we lead, run businesses and our economy. 07:26 What do we mean by that? 07:28 Without closing the gender, racial, ethnic, generational, 07:32 Global North, Global South gaps around every table, 07:35 so we can start redesigning the table, 07:38 we are not going to be able to design a world that is trusted, 07:43 inclusive and works for all. 07:46 Right now, it is a rather male and a rather pale world, 07:52 and you all know what the third thing is. 07:54 That’s going to give us a rather stale world. 07:57 Well, that is not what we need now. 08:01 We need the greatest human transformation of our lifetimes to happen now, 08:05 and that should be exciting. 08:07 It's a huge business opportunity. 08:09 It's a huge opportunity to unite people, 08:12 and it's a huge opportunity to create a world that works for all. 08:17 But we have been going about this with sameness or conformity. 08:24 And leadership, I have said before, 08:25 we suffer from a crisis of conformity in leadership. 08:28 So the only way to disrupt that is to bring difference to bear. 08:32 We have to close these gaps in leadership no later than by 2025. 08:36 It should be on everybody's agenda to close these gaps, 08:39 in every leadership room and every design room, everywhere. 08:42 But we also have to rethink what leadership is. 08:46 It is no longer something that comes only from people in positions of power. 08:50 Leadership is, and has always been, something that is inside out. 08:55 It's in all of us. 08:57 And the greatest work we do in life is to unlock it 08:59 in service of something that we care about. 09:02 And so changing who to change how 09:05 is also about changing you to change how. 09:07 And about each of us doing the work to come from the inside out, 09:12 bring our humanity to bear, 09:14 bring our courage to bear, 09:16 drop from our heads to our hearts more often. 09:20 Because business schools, 09:22 our capitalistic system has trained us 09:25 overly much on the left brain, left side of our brain only. 09:30 And we won't be able to calculate our way 09:34 from where we are to where we need to be and excel alone. 09:37 Technological transformations are critical, 09:41 and we have a lot of them in place and a lot of them underway. 09:44 And we clearly have enough money in the world, 09:46 but those things may not be matching up. 09:49 The missing piece is transformational leadership. 09:52 So we need to drop from our heads to our hearts and unlock courage. 09:57 And what we care about and our humanity. 10:00 And we need to face the truth: 10:03 that our economic system may have served some well for a long time, 10:07 may still be serving some, 10:09 but has failed to serve the many for quite some time. 10:12 So unless we reset and write the rules in our economic system 10:17 and align the incentives for the future we're trying to deliver, 10:21 we are going to be unable to do it. 10:24 And let me just give you a couple of facts. 10:26 Currently our governments are spending 11 million dollars a minute 10:31 in subsidizing fossil fuels. 10:34 In a year 1.8 trillion dollars into subsidies 10:39 that are environmentally harmful. 10:41 So we go to Glasgow and we set goals for the future, 10:44 and then we go home and we invest in the past. 10:48 This is insanity, if I've ever seen it. 10:51 So -- 10:53 (Applause) 10:56 So brave leadership matters, 10:58 and that's what the B Team leaders are trying to do, 11:00 and we need a lot more people to join us. 11:02 But brave leadership in a broken system isn’t going to work, 11:05 so we have to write the rules, 11:07 we have to change who, to change how. 11:09 And I say change who to change how is the transformational lever. 11:13 It’s going to help your company become future-fit. 11:15 It's going to help unlock the innovation you need. 11:18 So it's a lever to lead the transformation. 11:20 But let's not excuse the role of governments. 11:22 Governments have to write the rules. 11:24 They have to align the incentives. 11:26 They have to require business to measure what matters. 11:29 PM: Such important actions that must leave us all thinking, though, 11:35 what is the one thing that we can do? 11:37 Our friend Mary Robinson says, 11:38 "Make it personal. 11:40 Make the climate crisis personal." 11:41 How do we do that? 11:43 HT: Well, for me, it's incredibly personal. 11:45 I carry Mother Earth, 11:46 and I'm now changing it to daughter Earth, around my neck. 11:49 It was a gift from my husband and two children. 11:51 But as a CEO of the B Team, as a mom, I care deeply about this. 11:55 I care so much about it that I even ran for president at some point. 11:58 And I'm just a little girl from Iceland who just thinks 12:02 that what I care about matters, 12:04 and that I can unlock my authentic voice 12:07 and values in service of a better future. 12:09 So can all of us in here. 12:11 So bearing that maybe not all of you will want to run for president, 12:16 (Laughter) 12:17 but I hope many of you will really think about it 12:19 because it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done, 12:22 yet the hardest. 12:23 I think the first thing I would advise all of you to do 12:26 is to drop from your head to your heart and really craft your own compass, 12:31 and let your leadership align with that. 12:34 And then use your voice, 12:35 your votes and your wallets, according to that moral compass. 12:41 Because as human beings, we know truth from fake news. 12:45 We know the work we need to do. 12:47 So moral compass, and then use your voice. 12:50 It's the most powerful tool we have. 12:52 Use your votes and help everybody else have the opportunity to use that. 12:55 And use your vote with your feet. 12:58 You know, so work for companies and do business with companies 13:01 that actually are aligned with your compass. 13:04 And then use your wallets. 13:07 And ask questions when you're spending money, 13:09 when you're investing money, when you're choosing a bank. 13:13 You have so much power. 13:15 But make sure, whatever you choose to do, 13:20 that you don't underestimate that the most powerful lever around 13:24 to drive the transformation right now is collective power of employees. 13:29 And they are really making their voice and votes matter now. 13:33 And power has shifted. 13:35 Emerging power has more power now. 13:37 So wherever you are, mobilize, bring people together, 13:40 put pressure on politicians, put pressure on CEOs. 13:43 It's actually a few actors that can really change this. 13:48 But many actors can help them see that time is out, 13:53 and time for courageous and brave leadership is now. 13:56 Demand it. 13:57 PM: Thank you for your leadership, Halla. 14:00 Use your vote, your wallet, your voice. 14:02 (Applause) 14:04 HT: Thank you. 14:05 (Applause)
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