What can the past tell us about a net zero future?

It’s easy to get caught-up in the urgent push for change, but we don’t often take a step back and look at the net zero transition in the context of our history and the kind of future we imagine. Doing so can be worth our while because in many ways, we’ve actually been here before. In this episode we ask what we can we learn from past experience to help our transition to net-zero? How can we make sure that the massive and ambitious change ahead is one that includes social justice and promotes individual and societal wellbeing? How can we use our understanding of what went before us to our advantage in what’s yet to come? This episode includes extracts from our Third Thursday webinar which was held on Thursday 25th February. Music on this episode is by Blue Dot Sessions and Phill Ward Music (www.phillward.com) Follow the show! Don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes, Spotify and Google Podcasts. Please also take a moment to write a review and rate us so that more people can hear about the podcast and what we do at Connected Places Catapult.  Show notes This episode includes extracts from our Third Thursday webinar which was held on Thursday 25th February and you can watch the full video of the discussion on our website. The event was chaired by one of the Catapult’s Associates, Max Wide, an advisor on organisational change and transformation strategy advisor. The discussion panellists were; Victoria Lawson, Executive Director for Environment, Culture and Customer Services at the London Borough of Hounslow Dr Carlos Lopez-Galviz, Senior Lecturer in The Theory and Methods of Social Futures at Lancaster University Philippa Oldham, Stakeholder Engagement Director at the Advanced Propulsion Centre To read and download our Net Zero Places Innovation Brief, click here. To register for our Climate Needs Action event on pathways to net zero port and airport cities which is taking place on Tuesday 9th March, click here. You can also register for our two upcoming showcase events for CertiCAV on the 15th March, and VeriCAV on the 22nd March by visiting our events page. You can also find out more information on our website about the Catapult’s VeriCAV project, which is building and testing an integrated framework to allow Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) to be validated in simulation. Our CertiCAV project is creating practice framework for assessing the safety of automated vehicles. To find out more about what we do at the Connected Places Catapult and to hear about the latest news, events and announcements, please sign up to our newsletter!