Rob Cobbold
Rob Cobbold is the COO of the Beach Collective, a blue circular economy platform powered a smart currency called $BEACH which internalises the health of the planet into every transaction. Rob is a big picture thinker working at the intersection between science and spirituality, inner and outer transformation.
Rob Cobbold
Rob Cobbold is the COO of the Beach Collective, a blue circular economy platform powered ...see more
Technology cannot save us from ourselves
There is no business as usual
The recent COP27 conference produced very little in terms of meaningful commitments to reduce emissions. The overwhelming view of the negotiations, other than some progress on loss and damage, is that they were a failure, and that if anything we are further away from 1.5 degrees than we were before the conference. It’s not hard to see why. Most of the week felt like a networking event on steroids. With so many events on simultaneously, the Blue Zone felt like a shouting match at times, with everyone jostling for their five minutes of attention. But it’s not only CEOs, government ministers and activists who were exchanging LinkedIn profiles. In a year in which the Russia-Ukraine war has triggered an energy crisis more than 600 fossil fuel lobbyists attended the conference, no doubt sensing an opportunity.
