Securing our Climate Future: Risk, Resilience and Diplomacy

" In the years following the Rio Earth Summit we have managed to negotiate out morality from climate change... ...we need to bring back a sense of moral imperative "

" If we look at what needs to happen to enable a net-zero world, we've got to get the entire financial ecosystem engaged "

" The top companies that have disclosed their cliamte risk estimate that they face $1 trillion of climate risk over the next 5 years "

" The developed world needs a greater understanding of what a lack of resillience can do to supply chains, cities, and communities "

" When economies become globalised we loose our sense of community and the social contract, this is why we exploit resources and nature as if they are unlimited "

" It's an emergency, it's a crisis and there's no other acceptable language for it... ...the central organising principle of economic strategy and political strategy has to be climate change "

" It's finally the case, just in the last few motnhs, that we have brought the environment, climate, and development into one conversation and understood that you can't change one without all of them "

Philippe Warnery, President of The Estée Lauder Companies UK & Ireland, and Shirley Rodrigues London Deputy Mayor, Environment and Energy both adressed attendees at the reception before joining them all for an evening of conversation and discussion.