So as you recall, we started reflecting on the immediate past and the pandemic and the lessons that we've learnt on day one.
Yesterday, we moved on to thinking about the big changes in the political environment and what that means for science
and science policy and how that will give us opportunities to engage with society and with big challenges.
And that brings us today where we're focussing on one of those big challenges transitioning to a sustainable future.
So I'm going to introduce your host for today, Thomas Kocho Ricksen from Cambridge, who is going to introduce the theme and the speakers.
So thank you very much, Thomas, for all that you've done for preparing the conference and for today, and I will hand over to you.
So thanks very much, Phil Fall, for the introduction and again for hosting the whole summit as well,
and it's been a really interesting couple of days so far. Lots of really exciting discussions, lots of sort of quite energised discussions as well.
Lots of food for thought about how we might move forward to next year.
So again, so welcome to Day three session, which really focuses on how we transition to a more sustainable future.
So to echo something that's fed through the summit so far, you know, around, I really do wish we could have all been here together in person,
having just enjoyed a fabulous dinner in which the college knocks on a few drinks in the bar afterwards.
And importantly, all the opportunities that really helps to unlock all the networks really helps
to build and cement relationships that we build that we can take forward. Now we are where we are.
And so we're making do, and I really I'm looking forward to hopefully an in-person event next year.
So our session today rebuilds on the fantastic discussion we've had so far, focus our attention on how universities, companies,
governments and societies can come together to respond to the complex and wicked challenges resulting from climate change,
bringing the same kind of energy and commitment and sense of urgency that we witnessed in the fight against COVID over the last 18 months.
Now, finding solutions to these many and varied challenges, accelerating the transition to a net zero society by 2050 and hopefully,
if at all possible much earlier than that,
will require the development and deployment of diverse sets of technologies and solutions at both pace and scale.
Now, as the number of countries committing to delivering net zero by 2050 gathers pace,
pressures grow grow to switch from a decade of deliberation to a decade of delivery.
The question we really want to confront in this session next like this is, you know,
what more can we do to better mobilise the partnerships between universities,
companies, governments and societies to develop solutions at pace and scale to help accelerate
the urgent transition needed to deliver net carbon net zero carbon society?
What can we learn from experiments taking place around the around the world in different settings, different sectors,
different universities from our expense in tackling COVID to inform our approach and moving forward?
So to help us with our discussions in the breakouts that are coming up later on, we've lined up some great speakers.
But before we dive into the keynotes, help set the scene for our discussions.
I just wanted to present the findings from the very short survey that we conducted over the past few days.
Next slide, please. So the first question we asked was whether organisations have publicly announced ambitions for net zero by 2050.
Now, 60 percent of respondents said they had done so.
Interestingly, when we broke that down by large company by the companies responding all of which were large and universities,
almost all of the all large companies had said they'd done so compared to about half of universities.
Next slide, please.
The second question we asked was whether organisations have developed specific plans or roadmaps laying out how they will achieve net zero by 2050.
Now here, the response became a bit more mixed. We found that relatively few had detailed roadmaps in place.
About a third said they hadn't announced plans with some waypoints, while 18 percent had announced plans,
but with no detailed roadmaps on roadmaps or waypoints behind them.
Encouraging just eight percent of respondents said their organisations currently had no ambitions to develop such plans or roadmaps.
Next slide, please! The final question we asked was around where you universities and large companies in the room saw the greatest
need for change in order to better mobilise these partnerships to help develop solutions in this area.
Now here we see the importance placed on developing new incentives for organisations to change behaviours.
Importance of developing government policies and funding programmes. And are developing greater clarity on the pathways and roadmaps to take ideas and
technologies emerging from the labs all the way into deployment in the real world,
both pace and scale. Half have you also talked about the need for improvement in technology development and demonstration,
specifically on the partnership models that we need to put in place and the
great and the need for greater coordination of effort was also highlighted.
So I hope this this helps to it may help to stimulate and guide discussions later on in the breakouts.
And I know the findings from this very short survey chime very strongly with what our
two keynote speakers are about to talk about drawing on some very exciting initiatives. They are both both involved.