Session Information
3rd December 12pm – Busting Barriers for Solutions Stories: How industry is growing support for climate storytelling
Location: Bellona Foundation Pavilion, Zone B7/88, Blue Zone
This panel looks at the impact of climate storytelling through TV and film and what more is needed to create more of it.
We will be asking:
– What climate storytelling already exists?
– What does the industry need to do to support more of these stories?
– How will these stories be financed and by who?
– What policy support and incentives can be provided by our governments?
Speakers:
Carys Taylor, Director of Climate Content and Sustainability, BAFTA albert
Samata Pattinson, CEO, Black Pearl
Nuseir Yassin, CEO of Nas Company
3rd December 2pm – Listening Not Speaking: Centering Indigenous storytelling and lived experience in a just transition
Location: Shared Presentation Stage 4, Zone B7/88, Blue Zone
The IPCC calls for Indigenous and Traditional stories to take a role in helping navigate our way out of the climate crisis. This session will platform storytellers and policy-makers from Indigenous and
Traditional communities and will also explore the role of story in enabling a just transition.
Speaker:
Wiruungga Dunggirr, Elder, Namba Gumbaynggar Nation
3rd December 4:30pm – The Clash of Narratives: From paper straws to techno heroes – Exploring behaviour change vs. system change
Location: Bellona Foundation Pavilion, Zone B7/88, Blue Zone
In a world of divisive and inaccurate narratives public engagement and storytelling matters. Behaviour change versus techno savior, Climate everything versus implicit narratives
We’ll explore:
– How do we reflect the rich, grey middle grounds?
– How do we cut through disinformation?
– How do we engage the public on system change, rather than plastic straws?
– What works with audiences?
Speakers:
Solitaire Townsend, Co-Founder and Chief Solutionist, Futerra
Will Ridgeon, Producer Director, BBC Studios
Khadija Stewart, Founder, Ecovybz Environmental Creatives
5th December 1pm – Solving Our Crisis of Imagination: Debate between the solutionists and the storytellers
Location: Bellona Foundation Pavilion, Zone B7/88, Blue Zone
Hear from a cross-sectoral panel, from across TV and film and infrastructure, about the solutions that are going to shift the needle and how the stories we need to hear about them.
We’ll explore:
– What are the fundamental truths of Net Zero (no fossil fuels, climate justice, electrify everything etc)
– What is the global public awareness of those truths?
– How can we imagine that need into reality?
– What stories work and shift the needle?
Speakers:
David Garrido, Sky Sports
Farhoud Meybodi, Film Maker
Kimberly Burnick, NBCUniversal
Lina Strandvåg Nagell, Senior Policy Manager, Bellona Europa
5th December 2023 3pm – Climate Storytelling Masterclass: Communicating climate action through story
Location: Shared Presentation Stage 4, Zone B7/88, Blue Zone
Learn more about the power of story to reach our global sustainability targets and change our shared future. Join TED speaker, author and sustainability expert Solitaire Townsend and a panel of thought leaders for a masterclass in compelling climate storytelling and how we can all rewrite the narrative.
Speakers:
Solitaire Townsend, Co-Founder and Chief Solutionist, Futerra
Tamseel Hussain, Founder & CEO, PlucTV
More information can be found here.
