💚 IPCC & what the public thinks about removing fossil fuel subsidies

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Hej, Dare we say it? Spring has spr... ok, maybe not fully but the sun is shining here in Stockholm and we have a great love letter coming your way so lots of things to celebrate! We're excited to share some insights from our 2nd Climate Leadership Roundtable, an interview with Professor Sverker Jagers on removing fossil fuel subsidies (it might not be as hard as one thinks), and the latest IPCC report. Shall we?  Green transition Climate Leadership Roundtable  How well prepared are we for the green transition? Last week, we hosted our second (hybrid) climate leadership roundtable together with 12 climate leaders from some of Sweden's largest organisations as well as professors Sverker Jagers (environmental politics) and Åsa Löfgren (climate economics).  The cross-disciplinary roundtable discussion focused on transition capability and pace as well as the blockers and enablers of this huge shift. More specifically, we dug into some of the core elements of the climate transition: Willingness and Readiness to change, as well as Openness to collaborate with others — framed around the transition capability model developed by Another Tomorrow, Åsa Löfgren and Sverker Jagers.  A very inspiring and honest discussion on how these climate leaders are pushing new frontiers within their organisations, how collaboration is a huge success factor, and the work we have left to do in order to accelerate the pace of change.  Thank you to the climate leaders from PostNord, Apotea, TietoEvry, Coop, Danone, Vattenfall, Volvo Trucks, Löfbergs, Lindex, Swedbank, If and Microsoft for sharing your valuable insights and learnings, and for continuing to push in the right direction!  Right now our team is finalising the analysis of the discussion which we'll be sharing on our blog in the next few days — so stay tuned!  Curated Cross-national attitudes towards climate policies Photo source "So, I think that the more urgent it becomes to see behavioural change if we are to avoid the worst effects of climate change, the more we have to move away from only focusing on cost-efficiency. We need to see feasibility as an important driver" — Our climate science partner, professor Sverker Jagers recently published his second article - together with four other researchers - in the renowned science journal Nature Climate Change. Their study “Cross-national analysis of attitudes towards fossil fuel subsidy removal” analyses public attitudes towards the introduction of a carbon dioxide tax as well as the removal of fossil fuel subsidies on industrial and private consumption. It was conducted in Ecuador, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Mexico which subsidise both the consumption and production of fossil fuels, and have some of the highest levels of subsidies on consumption.  The article also studies whether policies that reallocate money spent on subsidies to investments that increase social and economic welfare systems, so-called revenue recycling, lead to more positive attitudes towards subsidy removals (spoiler alert: yes, they do).  We sat down with Sverker during his last Stockholm visit to talk about the most surprising findings in the study, a successful example of revenue recycling (go Canada Recommended IPCC: Time to summarise the summary of the summary of the summary  "This synthesis is the last major report the IPCC is scheduled to release for at least the next five years. (...) So, let's let the end of this assessment cycle be the start, or really the continuation of imagining better futures and demanding from our governments and the people in power the future we all deserve."  Listen to Miriam, a PhD candidate at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and Adam, a Climate Scientist with a PhD from Oxford, explain the latest IPCC release in a refreshing, quirky and informative way!  Stay safe and stay curious!  / Linnéa & Team Another Tomorrow Seeing this for the first time? Sign up to the love letter here.