LETTER TO ALL COP25 ATTENDING WORLD LEADERS

I desire a cool world

Dear world leaders,

I share with you my vision for a cool world. I mean cool and cool ! To begin with, I would like to thank you for leading our countries, spending your lives to manage the destiny of your peoples, giving the best of yourself to give the best to your countries. I cannot imagine the stress of leading millions of humans in a jeopardized world, coping with economic, energy, food, water, security, transportation issues. You are heroes, whatever we can think about your political orientation, your character, your skills.

I desire a cool world.

Talking about a cool world is a vision far more exciting than talking about a world in which we try to maintain temperature under 1,5°C of increase versus pre-industrial times. Words are a key path to what we want to solve, it’s a brain strategy, it’s pedagogical. It stresses the solution more than the problem. It gives hope, desire, excitement, attractiveness.

I desire a cool world.

I am a simple man from France. I am a dreamer. I am a poet. I am a sustainable consultant, a life coach, a skipper, a diver, a plane pilot and a passionate traveller. I have been watching the world from over, from under, from the ground and sea level, but also from the inner part of people’s heart and brain for decades. We have so much in common ! We all want love, joy, abundancy, friends, feeling good, having a place to rest, having a place in the game, feeling useful. We love to watch beautiful landscapes, share with people who enrich our hearts and intelligence. We fight for common values : peace, respect, freedom, happiness.

I desire a cool world.

You are now at the climate summit for a few days in Madrid. May I give you some advice to raise great opportunities, to be creative, to be disruptive, to be inspired. You may seize the opportunity to work differently, despite your job has been making consciousness increase for the last 24 last COPs.

Begin all work sessions with silence and breathing. Feel the humanity in each of your peer. Feel compassion for all the humans of this world. Let fear fade away. Let will apart. Let your egos far from you. Get energy from the group. Feel the inspiration, excitement and great desire of building a new world. Celebrate life, the incredible destiny of our unique Earth in the vast universe. Feel the fresh vibrations of this mystery in your bones, you believing in one God or not.

I desire a cool world.

I suggest that you remember the issues, scientific figures, upcoming climate changes, even your country will for solutions. But more importantly, focus on a new vision. Be creative. Be disruptive. Make brainstorming. Make masterminds, task forces, teamwork. Focus your attention now on great opportunities, visionary projects, concrete solutions, worldwide or local ones. Create « fresh ideas » !

I desire a cool COP25.

First, I recommend that you change all your wording.

Speak about a cool world instead of fighting against climate warming, because in this sentence you have a great temperature result and a political result as well (peace, joy, and satisfaction). Change issue by opportunity. Change draught by water. War by peace. Climate refugees by potential human resources. Climate and environmental catastrophes by nature and earth movement. Demography by human beings.

Second, make it simple.

Try to create a mean to transform automatically the outputs without changing nature laws, human nature. Use the strength of the issue to boost the solution, as in martial arts, as we use the Moon to launch a rocket to March. Change only one little parameter that will turn all the system in a sane world, like we introduce a virus with messengers in cells to modify DNA and the function of it.

Third, make it sexy and very attractive.

Invent something that every company, country, human on earth can understand and take advantage of it. Create an opportunity for progress, abundancy, great global impact. Desire is key to make the world change.

Last, start now !

Real steps are now better than political texts and resolutions. Decide on real solutions. Advocate for action plans starting as next week. Involve, commit, do !

I desire a cool world.

Here is my 1st idea : A Global Impact Index to change world economy !

Create a notation agency under the UN authority. This Global Impact Agency (GIA) will give each country, each big company a simple single Index based on its impact on environment and humans, in which we take into account forest destruction, earth spoiling, water overuse, non-renewable resources overexploitation, on the Planet part, and on the People part, children’s work, gaps between men and women, social security, minimum salary for living, education… An index under 1 will be for an entity that contributes and creates value for People and for the Planet. An index over 1 will be calculated for companies that destroy, jeopardize, exploit, overuse environment and human resources. 1 is a neutral index.

This Global Impact Index (GII) will be applicated to all taxes of these entities, companies or countries. A company with a GII at 0,5 will have a great tax advantage as they will have all taxes multiplied by 0,5, boosting profit, margin, EBITDA and stock value. It generates and accelerates global value (People, Planet, Profit). A company with a GII at 1 will pay the normal price for all taxes, not losing, nor winning any advantage. A company with a GII of 1,5 will have to pay all taxes with 50% more than the competition. If they do not change their model fast, they will disappear.

With this system, we use the laws of capitalism (goodwill, value creation, profit) to transform our worldwide economy. With a simple GII index, with a scale to be discussed (0 to 3 or 0,5 to 1,5 or 0,2 to 5). The GII for countries will work the same. Countries with a low GII will increase dramatically their competitiveness and attractiveness. Countries with a high GII index will lose very fast their assets.

For the game to be fair and compatible, let’s edit the indexes during 5 years without applying it to the tax calculation. Each entity will have the opportunity to change their business model, industrial process and goods/services offer. In five years, January 1st, 2025, we apply it within each country and between countries. We give 5 years to the world economy to focus on Global Value (People Planet Profit) and move from a high Global Impact Index to a lower one.

The Global Impact Agency under UN authority will score countries and companies over 1 billion dollars. For other entities, the Accountants Experts will apply the rules locally to calculate the GII. UNGIA will edit and advertise the rules and calculations in each country.

I desire a cool world.

Here is my 2nd idea : An International Environmental Criminal Court.

We are at times when we cannot let humans, companies, countries destroy our unique place of living. We do not have the time for that. No more. What if we let people do whatever they want in one country (steal, kill, destroy, exploit…) ? We all have national laws. The global issue is that environment constraints cannot be local because it leads to poor economic competitiveness. Environment laws have to be global to respect competition between countries and companies.

We created International Criminal Court in 1998. 123 countries have signed and approved the ICC. We have gained in humanity and justice since then. Country leaders can be judged.

We do not need to have all the countries in the IECC. But we need an extraterritorial application. The IECC must be able to judge a President of a company who commits environment crimes, or the King of a country, or any organization, human being with big damage on Planet or People. I am not a law specialist, but I feel that Law and common rules will be a part of the solution. And these environmental laws must be global to protect competitiveness.

In which country should the IECC be ? I think countries should applicate for that project. The choice would lead UN to choose countries in which Global Value is already in their DNA, in which lobbies have low presence, in which a high standard of democracy exists. I think that one IECC by continent would be operational and efficient.

This is a great project ! It gives us a tool to stop immediately too dangerous activities and policies.

I desire a cool world.

Here is my 3rd idea : a great plan for climate refugees NOW !

Last IPCC’s report shows that climate refugees will be between 300 million and 1.5 billion humans before the end of the century. We know that the number of climate refugees double each year or so. Unofficial scientific figures state that it could jump to 3.5 billion humans to be displaced. The sea level will increase by 1 meter before the end of the century, maybe before 2050. In 2300-2400, this level increase will be between 6 and 15 meters. The potential sea level increase due to total ice melting is of 60 meters. And 60% of the world population live next to the sea. We cannot wait for millions of deaths, climate wars or critical situations. I feel that this plan will need 10 to 15 years to be organized. It is the most important issue of the century. So begin to work on it now !

Let’s start to work on consequences, instead of focussing only on causes !

Vote for a Climate Refugee Status, apart from the Political Refugee Status of 1957. Make a compatible system in two steps. First a global status. Second the rules to apply it. It is impossible to vote for a Climate Refugee Status with immediate application. So, let’s apply it priority by priority. Let’s declare climate refugee zones, one after another when the situation becomes critical. And treat each zone step by step. The global status will exist but it will be applied with a UN decision, zone by zone.

A world landraising campaign. Let’s make a great inventory of jeopardized zones (High temperature peaks, high frequency of Cyclones, overflooded areas) on one hand and a list of destination places on the other hand. We will have to create new countries to replace the 52 State Islands that will disappear. We will have to be generous, collective and creative, in the same state of mind as for the Jewish diaspora in the 1947 resolution. For that, I suggest that World Bank and UN launch a landrasing to find places to be given to Peoples who have no more country. This will be given by voluntary decision and generosity. The World Bank can also buy land for this purpose.

Create 3 different tools : long-term land concessions (100 to 300 years) in existing countries, landraising and assimilation process for Peoples who want to mix in other cultures/lands. Today’s Political Refugee Status only operates when there is a war. Do not wait for that extreme situation. Be cool !

Transfer funds from war to climate transition. Last WWF 3S report said that the total budget of world armies is 1786 billion dollars versus 33 billion dollars for world climate budget. Can’t we balance the budgets. Already 25% of wars today have a climate origin. This could raise to 50 or 75% in upcoming years. Give the armies of the world the role of preventing climate wars, organizing displacements, country change, climate refugees’ protection. This is a peace project. A cool project.

Raise 1000 billion dollars to educate upcoming climate refugees to useful skills (low techs, food techs, energy techs, water techs), so that when they commute to another place they come with skills. Focus on the 10-15 years young generation as they will be the next climate refugees. Use the GAFA’s and tech companies to make that big education plan with distance schools, satellite connexions and local international teachers.

Raise an Income Fund for the climate refugees to give them a salary when they arrive in a new country. If climate refugees migrate with an income and skills, they will be a powerful resource instead of a burden. And in some countries, It can compensate a dramatically decreasing population or lack of workers : Australia, Canada, Japan, Germany… The issue can be the solution for some industrial countries.

I desire a cool world !

Here is my 4th idea : our oil is in the sky !

It’s time now to recapture carbon dioxide in the sky. At high pace. Now. The IPCC’s reports say that we will have to capture carbon in the air to limit temperature increase. Two ways exist : natural and industrial ways. The one is trees plantation. The other is carbon capture industries.

Let’s plant 10 billions trees in 3 years ! Trees capture carbon to grow. Australia decided to plant 1 billion trees after the heat peak in 2018. They understood that it was a priority. Let’s do it worldwide with a seed bomb campaign and a great investment plan. Everywhere. In each country. With political impulse or individual action. Let’s produce millions of tree seed bombs to be launched by planes, cars, walking people. Let’s distribute these seed bombs to schools, NGO’s, countries, with scientific mentoring to respect local biodiversity and ecosystems.

Let’s build 1 million Carbon capture plants worldwide. The technology exists despite it is high power consumption. It is scalable, profitable and stable. With air carbon extraction we can produce carbon fibres, carbon objects, carbon gas, gasoline. A full industry of air carbon outputs. But we can also produce food in seaweed, fungus and other nutriments. Carbon food farms could be a food solution.

I desire a cool world.

Here is my 5th idea : let’s begin to create decreasing areas !

We all know that a never-ending economic growth on a limited Planet is impossible. It will end a day, whether it comes via financial collapsing or energy scarcity or food and water lack or big climate change acceleration. It will end. Not slowly. Not in centuries. It can be abrupt, violent and devastating. It is unpredictable, but certain.

So, I suggest that we test areas where people have food, energy and economic autonomy. Many areas. In each country there are individuals who want to slowdown, to decelerate, to decrease. They want to focus on BEING instead of HAVING. It’s a chance. Let’s create places where « being stable and autonomous » is THE value. Let’s try to have an alternative model to speculation, free cash flow evaluation and ad-term value models. These decreasing areas will be like carbon bars in a nuclear power plant : it will cool down the system. It will also offer an alternative to people wanting to live another life, next to nature, with more solidarity, with frugal innovations, with great creativity. Offer utopias to the world. Test new human models. Propose a vision custom made for humans, along with this current model. This will be an alternative, a transition possibility, an economic mesotherapy.

I desire a cool world.

Here is my last idea : A world Leader for Climate elected by direct democracy !

UN has this power to be a place to talk, negotiate, imagine, act and decide. But what if we had a World Leader elected by 7 billion people for five years, whose power could be to advocate, tease, create team works for a new economy, listen to all humans, be the consciousness of all the Peoples, coordinate worldwide projects. What a great symbol to create that unpolitical mission, above nations, above countries, with a visionary project for the world. We need global governance along with local action. Global vision and world leadership will save us. We need a world climate leader.

To conclude I would like that your work focuses on actions and emotional symbols. We do not need political talks. We do not need a warm paper signed by everyone just to say that you agreed on everything. We do not need handshakes and fake smiles. We do not need that every country wants to move, but the majority of them. Be great leaders ! Be dreamers ! Be disruptive ! Be ambitious ! Be active !

I desire a cool world. Make fresh ideas ! 

Thank you for reading/listening (to) me.

François Prévost

A citizen of this Planet