“We need to make a case that technological transformation has happened in the past and its always exponential,” former COP26-High Level Climate Champion Nigel Topping  said at an event marking the edie Business Leadership Month, in London in March.

“[The business community] has struggled for a long-time to believe in the exponentials”, Topping told a packed crowd of more than 500 sustainability professionals. “We really need to start looking at the early indicators of change [across all markets] and understand that this process is happening exponentially.

“We need to stop telling each other how bad a job we’ve done of something in the past and start believing how brilliant we can be, act accordingly and set targets for exponential growth.”

Topping claimed that the world needed to develop a “coalition of the ambitious”, naming the Exponential Roadmap Initiative as an example of such a coalition.

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