Extreme Hangout • COP29, Baku

Sean Currie: Staying grounded to save the planet - Travel in a World on Fire

Wednesday

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20 November

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10:30-10:45

Book Tickets (FREE)

Session Overview

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Flying is so climate destructive that we need to build a future without it.

While the industry makes big promises about becoming sustainable, the reality is that the main way the industry will reach net zero is by reducing flights. Listen as Sean Currie provides a proposal for alternatives.

Meet Your Speaker

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I help progressive nonprofits and movements to mobilise communities, shift narratives, and force institutional change.

I do this through training, advising, and writing. I work on principles of evidence over anecdote, understandability over complexity, and always-always-always building my service around the needs of the people I’m supporting. This includes the likes of grassroots organisers, NGO staffers, and political candidates.

-- Europe needs effective changemakers --
The status quo that causes rising sea levels, overwhelming social injustice, shrinking civil liberties, and intensifying war has brought misery to many and power to few. That is why I work every day to grow the effectiveness of progressive changemakers in Europe, including myself.

-- What I bring to the table is different --
Over the last ten years, my obsessive curiosity for how we can make change more effectively has taken me into organising groups, educational seminars, protests, and decision-making arenas across Europe. I have an intimate, evidence-based understanding of the people and dynamics that win social change. All three areas of my work (campaigning, training, writing) are designed to spread this.

-- I bridge civil society and politics --
My theory of change takes an ecosystem approach. Transformation requires strong NGOs and independent, radical grassroots movements whose power is translated through democratic institutions via the social fabric. That is why, throughout my activist and professional career, I have stood with one foot in the grassroots and one foot in the institutions, developing a deep understanding of both.

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Session Overview

Session information coming soon!

Flying is so climate destructive that we need to build a future without it.

While the industry makes big promises about becoming sustainable, the reality is that the main way the industry will reach net zero is by reducing flights. Listen as Sean Currie provides a proposal for alternatives.

Meet Your Panel / Speakers

Sean Currie

Stay Grounded and Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG)

I help progressive nonprofits and movements to mobilise communities, shift narratives, and force institutional change.

I do this through training, advising, and writing. I work on principles of evidence over anecdote, understandability over complexity, and always-always-always building my service around the needs of the people I’m supporting. This includes the likes of grassroots organisers, NGO staffers, and political candidates.

-- Europe needs effective changemakers --
The status quo that causes rising sea levels, overwhelming social injustice, shrinking civil liberties, and intensifying war has brought misery to many and power to few. That is why I work every day to grow the effectiveness of progressive changemakers in Europe, including myself.

-- What I bring to the table is different --
Over the last ten years, my obsessive curiosity for how we can make change more effectively has taken me into organising groups, educational seminars, protests, and decision-making arenas across Europe. I have an intimate, evidence-based understanding of the people and dynamics that win social change. All three areas of my work (campaigning, training, writing) are designed to spread this.

-- I bridge civil society and politics --
My theory of change takes an ecosystem approach. Transformation requires strong NGOs and independent, radical grassroots movements whose power is translated through democratic institutions via the social fabric. That is why, throughout my activist and professional career, I have stood with one foot in the grassroots and one foot in the institutions, developing a deep understanding of both.

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Day 12: World Leaders Summit

Friday, 22 November

Previous Days

Monday, 11 November
Day 01: COP29 Opening
Tuesday, 12 November
Day 02: World Leaders Summit
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
10:30-10:45
Welcoming and Opening Remarks
Welcome
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
09:15-10:00
Yoga with Jess
Jess Silva
Health and Wellness
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
14:00-14:30
Meditation Session
Workshop
Wednesday, 13 November
Day 03: World Leaders Summit
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
10:00-10:30
Welcoming and Opening Remarks
Welcome
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
18:00-18:45
Evening of Music
Whaia
Music Evening
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
09:15-10:00
Yoga with Jess
Jess Silva
Health and Wellness
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
13:00-13:30
Meditation
Jacques Sheehan
Health & Wellness
Friday, 15 November
Day 05: Energy, Peace, Relief, Recovery
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
12:00-12:15
Janine Campling
Janine Campling
Keynote
Saturday, 16 November
Day 06: Science, Technology, Innovation
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
18:00-20:00
Evening DancEvente
Evening Event
Sunday, 17 November
Day 07: Rest Day
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
10:30-12:30
Open Mic
Open Mic Session
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
14:00-18:00
COP Youth Day
Youth Activities
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
10:30-12:30
COP Youth Day
Workshop
Monday, 18 November
Day 08: Human Development, Children and Youth, Health
Tuesday, 19 November
Day 09: Food, Agriculture, Water
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
10:45-11:00
Caillum Hedderman
Caillum Hedderman
Keynote
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
16:00-17:00
Insights of Local Youth
Panel
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
14:00-16:00
EcoKnowledge Student Fair
Fair
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
16:00-17:00
Roundtable and Workshop (PRIVATE)
Workshop
Wednesday, 20 November
Day 10: Urbanization, Transport, Tourism
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
10:00-10:30
Extreme Hangout
Welcoming and Opening Remarks
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
10:45-11:00
Nico Nicholas
Nico Nicholas
Keynote
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
15:00-15:15
Ahmed Ag Mohamed
Ahmed Ag Mohamed
Keynote
 

Main Stage
 

Inspiration Stage
14:00-16:00
How Can Music Impact COPs?
Roundtable
Thursday, 21 November
Day 11: Nature and Biodiversity, Gender and Equality, Indigenous

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