Having established the macro dynamics of a world energy system in which efficiency, innovation and piecemeal actions are all incapable of perturbing the exponential emissions growth, this second talk by Mike Berners-Lee looks at what it will take to achieve the global carbon constraint that the world urgently needs. Mike focuses on six important key steps: Waking up, capping the carbon, pushing the right technologies hard, dealing with land and smoke and making a plan B. Mike finds realistic cause for hope, despite humankind’s failures so far and looks at what each of us might do to help achieve the climate deal.

Mike Berners-Lee is a leading expert in carbon-footprints and director of Small World Consulting at Lancaster University. He is the author of How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything (2010) and with Duncan Clark he wrote The Burning Question: We can’t burn half the world’s oil, coal and gas. So how do we quit? (2013).

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