Radical Collaboration and Accountability on Climate and Nature
2025 began in a very grim way – especially in the United States.
The massively destructive California wildfires exacerbated by climate change, and Donald Trump, who on day one of his presidency announced that he would remove the United States from the UNFCCC – Global Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Making it even harder to make progress.
All this makes it hard to see how the world can easily move forward. 2024 was the hottest year on record and also a year in which trust in multilateral negotiations was at an all time low.gh information to earn their attention.
Finding a new path is urgently needed.
As always, powerful collaborations, civic dissent and actions, and global campaigns must be our way forward.
And the world’s response is fragmenting
Despite record attendances at these various United Nations summits, there was too much humble bragging in echo chambers, and not enough courageous collaboration to bring forward coherent and ‘joined-up’ change.
We must develop new thinking.
The tools will need to be different from previous mass movements; alternative social media will need to outpace the channels owned by the Tech Oligarchs, and a commitment to scientific, fact based, truth-telling as the bedrock of family and organisational values must be protected and honed.
2024 the warmest on record
Average global temperatures are breaking every record.
The antartic ice-sheet is dissapearing
The rate of ice loss is accelerating.
Can we agree to save the world?
The purpose of this retreat is to allow participants to learn about and act on the existential threats of climate change & biodiversity loss.
The need for radical collaboration & radical accountability
We see a very special mix of attendees at this retreat. Personally invited, we’d like to see very experienced Board Chairs (current or recently retired) from the business, government and non-government sectors working with outstanding young people. We know that in this way we can immediately start the process of radical collaboration linked to radical accountability. By this, we mean the stimulating and fascinating conversations about building a new inter-generational contract – elder wisdom and experience lining up with youth commitment, energy and imagination taking us to innovative project ideas and previously unimaginable pathways for advocacy. Working together takes on new meaning in this context.
Inter-generational compacts
By this, we mean the stimulating and fascinating conversations about building a new inter-generational contract – elder wisdom and experience lining up with youth commitment, energy and imagination taking us to innovative project ideas and previously unimaginable pathways for advocacy.
Is this you?
Are you prepared to do what the world needs?
Current or Former Board Chair
Able to influence, but would like to move from ‘success’ to ‘significance’ in the global context. This is an opportunity to act on the most pressing global issue of our time.
Senior Figures and Community Elders
Having done everything they hoped for in career terms but now are worried about the future and what this will mean for their grandchildrens’s future.
Young Climate or Nature Activist
Who wants to work with highly experienced elders for a better understanding of advocacy and how the levers of power can be activated to alter the course of events.
