ComplexityUniversity

The go-to community for learning to tackle our world’s most complex challenges.

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

Clubhouse tomorrow. “Education for A World on Fire: Complexity University.” We’re talking professional paradigm shifts, strategies for complex challenges, the Gigatonne Challenge and more.

https://t.co/8iQuyZB7Hj

1600 UTC

#clubhouse #complexity

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This is devastating news. Global South countries have been fighting for the right to manufacture and import affordable versions of the covid vaccines. A few hours ago, the USA, UK and European Union joined forces to block them at the WTO. The West is indefensible.

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

Bangalore team operating their food waste prototype. This run is 5 tonnes of abatement through composting food waste including these coconuts.

#sustainability #thegigatonnechallenge #ClimateJustice #climatechange

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

Jevon’s “The Coal Question” concludes this on coal consumption and energy efficiency.

“But the maintenance of such a position is physically impossible. We have to make the momentous choice between brief greatness and longer continued mediocrity.”

https://t.co/d7BywpHkLv

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

@GretaThunberg It seems we’ll have to keep telling our own stories.

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

We’re heading into the first Gigatonne Challenge of 2021!

If you don’t know what it is, it’s a direct response to global emissions reduction problem by one time-tested technology...

Teams of people.

https://t.co/CmVMlfVmAw

#ClimateAction #emissions

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

@therealCAN_U Festival of Ideas is hosting a panel introducing #theGigatonneChallenge.

Thursday, 4 March, 13:30 UTC.

https://t.co/dwBhVh7YLM

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

Insisting the world is non-complex, through framing, theory or action, is roughly equivalent to insisting it is flat. Being effective in complex situations takes practice like most skills.

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

From India to Hawaii to the UK, it’s been a tough couple of weeks. We’re processing the emotional and mental impacts collectively in an open space. Registration is free.

https://t.co/awzSZgUoX4

#ClimateCrisis #FarmersProtests #ClimateAction

[Rob Hopkins @robintransition]

“In an unstable complex system, small islands of coherence have the potential to change the whole system.” Ilya Progogine.

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

https://t.co/osrsSY4gjD

#thegigatonnechallenge #ClimateAction

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

“We’re going to cut emissions in half by 2040”

...yeah, okay. But, how? How actually are going to achieve a 50% reduction emissions?

What is your strategy?

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

There is not a single climate scenario that decarbonizes energy and land use fast enough to keep us under 1.5C or 2C without also significantly *reducing* the energy and land use of rich nations. That is a fact, and we should be talking about it.

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

Gigatonne Teams Update:  Taking it to the next level... - https://t.co/Nl2FOJROzq

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

On the new story of responding to the climate emergency:

“...The story has to be that the unit of change is not the individual, it’s the team or the group. That actually what we need are teams of people..”

#climateemergency #thegigatonnestrategy

https://t.co/KDqPPWQxbf

[ComplexityUniversity @ComplexityUni]

What is effective leadership in the face of multiple complex global crises? - https://t.co/riMzSLUVoe #complexity #leadership #globalchallenges