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CoP26 may feel like a watershed in our rebalancing the world in favour of our ecosystems and our climate but it can only be a stage along that route and this is clearly one challenge for which there are no single ‘fixes’ and no simple answers.
Asking the right questions and soliciting answers from across the board is a small but important element of this process. One that helps shift understanding and behaviour as much as identifying innovative new approaches and, to that end, the Major Projects Association is using an App called Opiner to ask and answer some of those questions.
Our hope is that this active will be infectious. As more people hear and see the questions and the ‘Wonderwalls’ of answers that spring up in response, they too will want to offer their own answers or even questions of their own. The question and answering will involve Association members but will do so in a very public arena – sharing what we think and feel with anyone who is interested in listening.
Our first questions will be launched this week by Jo Jolly, Deputy Director at Environment Agency, whose recent presentation at the Association’s annual conference had such an impact on all those who were there. Here is a taster: