Healthy Planet Action Coalition meeting May 30th 5:30 PM Wouter van Dieren and Hans van der Loo in conversation

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Zoom link:

 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88954851189?pwd=WVZoeTBnN3kyZFoyLzYxZ1JNbDFPUT09



HPAC is honored to announce a conversation with two very special guests at our next regular meeting on Thursday May 30 at 2:30 PM PDT, 5:30 PM EDT, 11:30 PM CET and 07:30 AEST. 

Wouter van Dieren and Hans van der Loo are long time highly accomplished change-makers and climate advocates from the Netherlands. 

They cofounded the Blue Cooling Initiative, BlueCooling.org, an NGO committed to “buying time for survival of humanity by temporarily cooling the planet.”

They are now actively engaged in establishing the International Climate Cooling Coalition, an NGO whose goal is to advance the need for DCC - Direct Climate Cooling - or Active Cooling as they call it. 

Our conversation will cover a wide range of critical issues including:

- their theory of change

- their experience in advocating for Active Cooling throughout Europe and elsewhere

- the mission and role of the ICCC 

- how HPAC and the ICCC can best collaborate in achieving our mutual goal of ensuring a healthy planet. 

Please share this invitation widely with your colleagues and lists. 

Bios below: 

WOUTER VAN DIEREN is a Dutch author, journalist, scientist, speaker, advisor, TV-maker, politician. In 1972, he played a major role in promoting the first Report to the Club of Rome “The Limits to Growth”. He was the founder of IMSA, a leading thinktank, and the vice-chair of the International Advisory Board of the Wuppertal Institute as well as the Factor 10 Group (on resource efficiency). Among his books is the Report to the Club of Rome Taking Nature into Account (1995) about the need to correct the GDP for environmental losses. He also founded the annual Springtij Forum, an assembly on green innovation and green finances on the island of Terschelling. Recently he started the Stichting Toekomst Akkoord, the Resource Wende and the Blue Cooling Initiative. He has been awarded the Rachel Carson Gold Medal (2006), the WWF Global Merit prize (2012, and the nomination into the Royal Order of Orange-Nassau. He is fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. 

Hans van der Loo is an explainer & thought leader, advising business strategists, policy makers, more information think tanks and family offices as Chairman of the Institute for Integrated Economic Research, a non-profit research organization focused on developing an unbiased view of global economic processes aiming to re-focus economic research away from individual subsystems, towards a broader understanding of the forces driving overall progress or retreat in the Human Eco-

system. 

He is co-Founder of the Blue Cooling Initiative (www.BlueCooling.org) that promotes understanding & execution of a biomimicry solution for planetary cooling in cooperation with the Universities of Cambridge, Delft and Washington State. 

He is also Co-Founder of the EU

STEM Coalition to strengthen sySTEMic thinking in education and society. 

He studied in Breukelen, Paris, Oxford, Düsseldorf and Tokyo. 

He worked 30 years in industry (McKinsey, Shell, WBCSD). 

He co-authored a book titled VEERKRACHT about Resilience, lectures at Business Schools and speaks at conferences incl Atlantic Strategy Group, Bilderberg, Climate Change Summit, COP21, EU Business Summit, Newton Summit, World Economic Forum a.o. 

He works in 5 languages, has lived in 9 countries and worked in over 60 countries.

Herb Simmens
Author of A Climate Vocabulary of the Future

“A SciencePoem and an Inspiration.” Kim Stanley Robinson
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