Individual Climate Action with Impact: Five Climate Superpowers to SHIFT the System

Kimberly Nicholas, Professor of Sustainability Science, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies

Most people know climate change is a problem and want to help solve it. But too few are taking high-impact climate action, using their limited time and resources effectively to really make a difference. In this hands-on talk, Kimberly Nicholas shares her new personalized climate action guide, focusing on a handful of key actions within five “climate superpowers”: Citizen, Professional, Investor, Consumer, and Role Model, to bridge between individual and system change. Developed in partnership with Project Drawdown, The Super High-Impact Initiative for Fixing Tomorrow (SHIFT, https://jointheshift.earth/) helps people understand the power in their context – what roles they play, what resources they have – and then prioritize actions that punch above their weight. The lecture will include insights on some of the most high-impact individual climate actions and get the audience started on their own climate action journey using hands-on exercises.

Dr. Kimberly Nicholas is a climate and sustainability scientist at Lund University. She has published over 70 articles on climate and sustainability in leading peer-reviewed journals; writes for publications such as Elle, The Guardian, Scientific American, and New Scientist; and is the author of ’Under the Sky We Make: How to be Human in a Warming World’. She is editor of the monthly climate newsletter ’We Can Fix It’: https://wecanfixit.substack.com/.

Program: 

15.00–16.00 Lecture

16.00–17.00 Q&A plus mingling over drinks/snacks