Reboot2030

​ Delton Chen (Australia) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. The Global Carbon Reward Initiative (GCR) is a new international climate policy that is designed to meet the 1.5-2.0°C goal of the Paris Agreement by incentivising rapid reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the removal of GHGs from the atmosphere. The GCR avoids carbon offsetting, and it offers a political solution to...

Lene Rachel Andersen (Denmark) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Lene Rachel Andersen is the author of Bildung: Keep Growing (2020), among many other books, and founder of the Global Bildung Network (GBN), a network that brings together people from around the globe to address our deep longing for meaning, purpose, connectedness, cultural identity, sense of community, and empowerment and ag...

Susanna Cafaro (Italy) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. As the EU, through representative, participatory and recently even deliberative mechanisms, has increasingly evolved into a distinct democracy in its own right, Susanna Cafaro believes there is the potential for other international organizations (IOs) to evolve towards some kind of democratic governance and to increase their levels o...

Lenka Petrakova (UK/Slovakia) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. When it comes to the environmental impact of pollution, visions of the future tend to be dystopian in character. Not so in Lenka’s case. In this edition of Reboot2030, we explore her concept of a futuristic floating station, the 8th Continent , which helps to restore the balance of the sea, gathers ocean debris and creates a p...

​John Bunzl (UK) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. In our Reboot Dialogue #2 John Bunzl introduced SIMPOL , the organisation he created to counter Destructive Global Competition (DGC) through simultaneous policy development and implementation. Since then, the geopolitical landscape has changed fundamentally – and not for the better. In this talk John Bunzl provides an update on his work wi...

Young-Jin Choi (Germany) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. In our Reboot Dialogue #5 Young-Jin talked about carbon pricing and climate dividends with regards to their potential scope for lowering our collective carbon footprint. Because of the limited success carbon pricing has had to date, the question of how we might monitor both progress and risks came up. In this talk we continue this...

Young-Jin Choi (Germany) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. In order to accelerate the speed at which decarbonisation occurs, governments can utilize a variety of climate policies. One of the most transformative measures within that context is effective carbon pricing. To ensure both sustained public support and a just transition, Young-Jin argues that it is of critical importance to use a...

Lene Rachel Andersen (Denmark) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Lene believes that we need 'bildung' in the original sense (not just education), so that everybody understands their society and the changes that are happening – and thus feels empowered to engage and make a difference. At present that is not the case. To get there, Lene argues, our current school systems need to rethink what...

Roberto Castaldi (Italy) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Roberto argues that, for the EU to prosper in the long term, it will need to abolish the principle of unanimity and become a fully-fledged federation, endowed with fiscal powers, a single external representation and defence capability and (to preserve our liberal democracy) effective mechanisms for the protection of the rule of law...

John Bunzl (UK) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. John believes that solving global problems requires solutions to be implemented simultaneously by nations so that no nation loses out. He argues that solutions need to cover multiple issues, so what a nation loses on one issue it can gain on another, and that citizens need to use their vote to incentivise politicians to cooperate globally....

Chris Hamer (Australia) in conversation with Nico Andreas Heller. Chris addresses the challenge democracy faces from a rising tide of autocracy. He believes that the democracies of this world must unite to meet this challenge and argues that the formation of a World Security Community of democratic nations would be a logical and forward-looking response. More information about Chris Hamer is avail...