Here are a few of the things that happened in the last 5-6 weeks, as I rocketed towards and beyond my 70th birthday.
We hosted a meeting of Covestro people at Somerset House on 22 May; I attended the first meeting of a new Environmental Committee for the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace on 31 May; flew to Munich and Dresden for a session with the board of Melitta; took part in the latest meeting of the WWF Council of Ambassadors on 5 June; flew to Barcelona with Elaine on 6 June to speak at an Atlas of the Future conference, where one of the things I did was chair a session with two young activists each from Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future; took part in the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s 30th anniversary event at Buckingham Palace on 13 June; took the Eurostar to Paris to speak at a Conference Board convening of Chief Economists; then took the ICE train to Brussels to speak at an Amfori event, where I was delighted to speak alongside Nadya Zhexembayeva; then I summed up a UN Global Compact conference at Aviva Investors’ HQ on 24 June, the day after my birthday, covered elsewhere; then I spoke at a Lloyds Banking Group board session at Brocket Hall on 27-28 June; then I sent off the new Green Swans book to the publishers on 1 July; we did our first Imaginarium event for The Body Shop International on 3-4 July; I spoke at the Climate Innovation Forum on 3 July, where I handed over to Anna Taylor, school climate activist – and then had the worst migraine in 30 years, trying to talk to Nik Gowing and largely failing; and then on 6 June a birthday lunch for the girls at Spring.
And here are a few images from those events and trips:
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