Hey, I’ve got something we need to talk about — but I don’t want anyone to hear.

Leaders need a safe place to discuss pressing climate issues without risking their personal or professional reputation.

Shhh — I need to tell you something.

There comes a point when you need to look at the work being done (the inputs), and the results being achieved (the outputs), and accept that it’s not working.

Science confirms that the planet is rapidly heating and the frequency of climate impacts is accelerating. We’re now experiencing those 1 in 100 year floods, forest fires and droughts every year or two (“tail risks”). What’s even more frightening is that the next wave of 1 in 100 year storms will be more massive than anything we’ve ever seen, and with ecosystem degradation accelerating, those new impacts will quickly become our annual reality. Insurance, Investments, Pensions and Banking cannot survive in that reality, and without these 4 pillars of our economic system we will almost certainly move towards mass insolvency. And from there it’s just a stone’s throw away from planetary insolvency (as referenced in the 2024 “Climate Scorpion” report). Words like retirement, travel, dream home and inheritance will be replaced with words like; climate-induced structural inflation, insecure housing, widespread crop failure, water…