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Engaging the corporate world in the urgent need for climate action, a campaign is asking eco-conscious CEOs from green networks and the B Corp movement to write letters to the Earth, expressing their hopes and fears for the future.
Organised by campaign group Business Declares and arts organisation Letters to the Earth, the project is designed to help corporate players better understand their role in combatting the climate and ecological emergency.
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The two organisations will publish the letters on 25 October during a live performance in London, days before the start of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26).
They will then deliver the letters to attendees at the conference in Glasgow, to inspire leaders to act more ambitiously to protect life on Earth.
The first CEO to join the campaign is Galahad Clark from natural footwear company Vivobarefoot. His letter confesses: “Like many, I come from a trade that has caused you untold damage,” and ends with a hopeful message: “I want my kids to feel inspired and rebellious. I hope they never accept the thinking that got us into this crisis.
“One day they may read these words, along with other letters from people in my industry and generation. My greatest wish is that they do so amidst landscapes that have been given the time and space to regenerate. A world where you, and humans, are able to flourish.”
Other letter writers to join the campaign include the CEOs of Triodos Bank UK, Riverford Organics, Hatch Enterprises, Project X, Forster’s Communications, Bates Wells, NatureSave Insurance, Tribe Capital Investment, Ecology Building Society, Beauty Kitchen and TYF.
Find further information about Letters to the Earth here.
