Climate Emergency: Are we too late? | Powered by Enactus NL

Welcome to the Popping Bubbles podcast, powered by Enactus Netherlands! 
For our very first episode, we sat down with Steve Kennedy and Irthe de Jong to discuss climate change and how we can all take action to prevent it. Steve Kennedy is an Associate Professor researching business sustainability at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Irthe de Jong is a board member at De Jonge Klimaatbeweging (Dutch Youth Climate Movement) and a PhD student in European & International Law at Amsterdam University.

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:20 Introduce guests
• 2:43 Steve's work
• 6:05 study from ExxonMobil
• 7:16 Irthe's work
• 9:26 Polycentric governence
• 13:17 Profit from sustainability
• 15:07 (Business) incentive to change
• 21:19 What drives companies to resist
• 26:23 Deep-sea mining: Development vs sustainability
• 36:33 "Will we be on time?"
• 40:33 Rotterjam
• 45:34 Plugging the symptoms: 'failure' of education
• 53:00 "Are we f*cked?" - Climate anxiety
• 1:00:53 "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good"
• 1:08:20 Scaling in sustainable business
• 1:12:01 Favorite social enterprises
• 1:16:03 Message to viewers