New York Times Live Event: “Applying Covid-19’s Hard-Earned Lessons to Climate Change”

On July 9th 2020, Bertrand Piccard participated in a debate hosted by the New York Times to explore the hard-earned lessons of Covid-19 and how to apply them to climate change.

The debate, first event from the series “Netting Zero”, was moderated by Hannah Fairfield and joined by eight speakers:

• Christina Figures, Co-founder ; Global Optimism

• Alexandra Palt, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer, L'Oréal

• Luisa Neubauer, Climate Activist

• Nigel Topping, UK High-Level Climate Action Champion for COP26

• Dayna Cunningham, Executive Director, CoLab, M.I.T.

• Bertrand Piccard, Initiator and Chairman, Solar Impulse Foundation

• Johan Rockstrom, Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)