Dr Patrick Dixon Chairman Global Change Ltd

SustainAgilityHow can we create a better future ?

Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, Author of 15 books and has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50)

Creating a Better World - Sustainable Future and the Common Good - Keynote for Zermatt Summit

Foundation (2012)

500 videos of keynoteswww.youtube.com/pjvdixon

over 4 million views

www.globalchange.com14 million unique visitors

Crisis of Purpose at Work

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What kinds of things do you want to be remembered for

What are you investing in?

DOING GOOD•What would you like to be known for – if you had the talent?

•Top of list: Doing good / being kind / great person

Living Life Backwards – living today how you want to remember tomorrow

Building a Better World• Basis of all advertising• Every marketing campaign• Every mission statement• All leadership• All change management• All government • Every business activity• Every human passion

• EU 20,000 if you can find a business exception to this universal rule

All sales based on a promisePurpose of business is to deliver on the promise

Profit is your reward for doing so

Purpose of Business

ALL      BIG      TRENDS      ARE      RELATED  

Middle Class --> 300m India - 100m Africa

The future is about

The future is about

EMOTION

1 billion children cities

How most people talk about sustainability

“Caring for the planet - for the sake of future

generations”

$40 Trillion Green Tech Boom driven by oil price, cost cuts, green activism

Data accepted widely

Science of global warming might possibly turn out to be incorrect, but it is highly influential

“US emissions of CO2 equivalent to a carpet

of CO2 = 33cmsthick each year over

entire land mass”

Source: „Vostok“ (Antarctica) ice cores, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, NOAA, Boulder, CO, USA

350-393ppm in 30 years x

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420,000 Years - CO2 and Earth Temperature

”Dip equivalent to 0.5 mile of ice over some of northern hemisphere 15,000 years ago”

“400,000 sq miles of Arctic ice melted in 30 years”

China water crisis“In 20 years, 18,000 square miles of ice melted”“3000 out of 4000 Tibetan lakes dried up”“Yellow river dried up recently for 226 days”

Oil >$100 a barrel accelerates innovationEven strong climate sceptics “go green”

120,000 terawatts of sunlight /day7,000 times total global power usePower Moscow from Libyan Desert

“33-49% EU power = wind by 2050” Surplus wind to methane ?Gas power - load balancing

120,000 terawatts of sunlight /day7,000 times total power use

QUEBEC from ARIZONA

Solar cell generation parity <7-10 yrs

•Only 5% EU power crosses borders

Enough salt caverns to power germany for a week

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Problem of Old Tires – gassification

Gas + Rubber

30 million acres lost

EU 5% gasoline and diesel from food

25% of 2010 US grain fuel30% US grain burnt in cars

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Power + Food

Recycle Metal

70% less energy 40% less water85% less air pollution75% less water pollution

Street Lights - Philips5% 2% of US / EU energyPayback period 4 years 120 million EU street lamps 75% replace in 15 years at unit cost of $750 including labour

Go further than you have to

“Compliance” lags behind public opinion

Innovation: Intel + Chandler City - US1.5m gallons a day into $19m desalination plant Pumped into sandstone acquiferReplaces 75% of water used by factoryGood relationship with local government planners / image / morale

Build a Better Worldindividual family community world

Patrick Dixon is Chairman of Global Change Ltd, Author of 15 books and has been ranked one of the 20 most influential business thinkers alive today (Thinkers 50)

Creating a Better World - Sustainable Future and the Common Good - Keynote for Zermatt Summit

Foundation (2012)

500 videos of keynoteswww.youtube.com/pjvdixon

over 4 million views

www.globalchange.com14 million unique visitors