Our friends at Complexity University are launching the “Gigatonne Challenge” to mobilize 100 teams of around 15 people, based in a region or city, to work on active emissions reduction over 2 2-week sprints in March and April 2021. The framework for this initiative is based on over 20 years' work on social laboratory methodology in practice and on solving complex social problems on a global scale.
You can read the official file below:
THE GIGATON CHALLENGE
The climate crisis is not a single crisis, but a series of interlinked crises. It is a crisis of inequality that is leading to the destruction of our natural habitat. It is a crisis that affects the most vulnerable among us. It's a crisis that will trigger many other crises.
The Gigatonne Lab is a cohort-based leadership program designed for anyone frustrated by the status quo. It invites us to “unlearn” many of our current mechanistic mindsets and practices in order to tackle complex challenges.
For two intensive weeks, you'll work as part of a regional or urban cohort to learn how to tackle the climate crisis in concrete terms. No more empty rhetoric. No more reports or empty promises. No more conferences where we just talk about the problem. Real action with a real strategy.
At the heart of the gigaton laboratory is the gigaton strategy, a revolutionary strategic response to the scale and pace of the climate crisis.
What's the commitment?
It's an intensive commitment, but you should be able to pull it off even if you're working full-time (you might want to freeze some food and stock up on coffee, as they say).
There are up to 15 hours of sessions scheduled over 2 weeks. In addition, participants can expect to work between 1 and 3 hours during the week on an individual basis.
Monday and Friday plenary sessions will last 90 minutes each day. Cohort sessions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays will require a 60-90 minute commitment.
Plenary sessions take place at 1500 UTC.(click here for local time).
March sessions | March 15-26, 2021
April sessions | April 12-23, 2021
What does it mean to me?
You'll benefit from an intensive two-week action-learning experience on how to move from ideas to action, directly tackling perhaps the biggest and most urgent complex challenge of our time. You'll meet and work with other committed and courageous people in your city, and learn how to be effective together, fast. Going forward, over the next two years, the aim is for committed and effective teams to be funded to tackle the climate crisis. Equity and job creation are an integral part of our strategy, but we're not there yet, and to get there we need people to show the will, get involved, get trained and prove the concept.
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