Clean water and 842 million people are undernourished. 1.3 billion people have no access to electricity and 2.6 billion people are without sanitary cooking facilities. For secure access to clean and safe energy, water and food are essential building blocks for producing extreme poverty and for building a healthy future. And fertile environment that can provide long-term economic security for many of the poorest people. Environment is often destroyed for short-term economic gain. The provision of energy through dirty sources and deforestation and land clearing for greenhouse gases such as more frequent intense storms or dry spells taught those with the least resilience in ways of tackling extreme poverty with smarter ways of building in resilience as climactic variability costs increase. The biggest challenge is seeing the big officials from health, finance, climate, education, economics, energy, food and science. Good morning everyone. My name is Michelle Hussein, I'm a BBC journalist and it's my pleasure to be moderating this next session which is really focused on two very pressing challenges that the world faces today. Attacking extreme poverty through the next stage of the Millennium Development Goals and also making progress, long-awaited progress on an international framework for climate change. Sometimes these goals compete. Often people are seen more in one camp than the other but of course there is so much evidence now about how these goals can and should be tackled together. Progress on development can easily be eroded by extreme weather and climate disruption and the environment often pays the price for short-term economic gain. So the question will be how we can consider these two goals through the same prism as we move forward with the development agenda. So I'm delighted to welcome to our panel the UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the President of the World Bank, Dr. Jim Kim, the Prime Minister of Norway, Ernest Solberg, the Finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iwela, the former US Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore, Bill Gates of the Gates Foundation, and the CEO of Unilever Paul Polman. So some very different perspectives from within the panel. I'd like to begin, if I may, by asking the Secretary General to outline how he would like to see this debate move forward. And with the global economy and better health, Secretary General, I'm assuming that you would want the focus to return to some of the things that might have been bypassed in the last few years. Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity, and good morning, everyone.  Climate change has been on the top of our global agenda many years, but without much satisfactory progress because of all differences of national interest with some lack of global vision, it's true that all science has been telling us this climate change has been putting all of us, us and our planet Earth, at risk. Our communities and our businesses, small or large. And even our national security, political instability, has been caused by the impact of climate change. Then we have to tackle this climate change. There is some misperception that tackling climate change wouldn't affect or reduce our capacity to address global growth, millennium development goals, our future developments. I think this is wrong perception. Climate change will put all of us onto sustainable development growth. And addressing all of our life and our business activities in a sustainable way will help us in tackling climate change. Therefore, these two issues are mutually reinforcing, mutually supporting. Tackling climate change will first of all enable us to have universal access to energy. It will strengthen our capacity to resilient infrastructure. It will also help our global health, sustainable urban and transportation and biodiversity. And it will also help us to address climate change short-lived pollutants. All these are very important ones which we have invested onto this one. That is why I'm going to convene Climate Change Summit Meeting at the United Nations on September 23rd. This will be only dedicated on climate change. I'm inviting all government leaders, business leaders and civil society leaders and even philanthropic community leaders so that they can bring their own commitment. There are two purposes. First, raise political awareness and political will at the highest possible because we do not have any time loose at this time. We have only two years. Please bring your ambitious target and commitment to tackle this climate change. And second one is to catalyze ambitious and decisive actions on the ground, on all the challenges which we are now facing in our planet Earth. For that, I have some clear messages to first political leaders and business community leaders and civil society leaders. Because in addressing this climate change, sustainable development, we need to have a very strong, tight partnership among government, business communities and civil societies. To business political leaders, please come to the United Nations Summit Meeting on climate change with a very decisive and determined and passionate and visionary leadership for the future of our generation and for the future of sustainable planet Earth. Instruct your negotiators with a firm and decisive visionary leadership. Then for business community leaders, I have four messages to tell you. First, increase your investment, bankers, service providers, increase your finance flows to sustainable growth, sustainable growth. Now, low-carbon energy, climate resilient infrastructures and deployment, including deployment of climate bonds, then decrease your investment in carbon-intensive and obsolete technology and business as usual business patterns. Thirdly, enhance your transparency with regard to greenhouse gas emissions from the assets or from the companies you have invested or you are financing. Then, fourthly, work together with the government and civil society and align your business practices to sustainable path. Then lastly, civil society leaders. You are not in the government, you are not in the business, but you represent the moral voice of the people on the ground. Raise your voice. If your government's policies is not in line with sustainable business practices, then raise your voice and challenge your president, prime ministers, senators and congressmen and business leaders. If business practices are business as usual, just not in line with sustainable development, not helpful in tackling climate change, again raise your voice and United Nations will hear your concerns and aspirations. That is the main purpose of having summit meeting on climate change this September. And from there, we will go to Peru next year in Paris to have a global legal climate agreement. So you hope that that meeting in September then pushes negotiations forward. Dr. Kim, I wonder if I could ask you, as the World Bank, you are involved in development programs and development plans right around the world. Do you think that those programs are written or viewed through a climate lens? Well, we are trying to look at everything we do from a climate lens, but let me just take a step back and look at the way that you have posed the question. There is development, and in my case, I have worked on health and education and development for most of my adult life. And then sometimes people juxtapose that with the environment. So let me just step back and say, you know, there is not yet in my head the importance of all these different problems, but there has been tremendous lessons that I think we as a global community have learned, and I certainly have learned personally. And if you look at some of the greatest social movements in history that accomplish their goal, one related to the child survival movement around vaccines, another related to the unbelievable movement to try to find both vaccines and treatment for HIV that have led to now 10 million people being treated, tremendous work, supported by Bill Gates on understanding the nature of the potential of a vaccine in HIV, that in all of those what happened was there was a plan and there were very specific targets with very specific end dates. And so I think, you know, the thing that we're trying to do now at the World Bank is to look at all of our projects and say, are there things that we know to be good? Good for the environment, good for people. For example, are there ways of reorganizing the way we do agriculture so that we both increase yields, put more carbon back into the ground and have an impact both on the climate and on people's ability to feed themselves? The good news is that there's a lot of programs like that, but they're mostly in the pilot project phase. And innovations in one place are not spread to other places and we're not scaling the things that we know are good. So if I were to look at these two, I would say this. Well, we have to make sure that we don't pull defeat out of the jaws of victory by losing sight of things like the MDGs. You know, one of the things that the Secretary of General and I are doing, and we instituted for the first time, is every six months all the heads of the UN agencies, along with myself and the IMF, are meeting to try to accelerate progress along the MDGs because those were good goals and they remain good goals and they will continue to remain good goals. And for climate, I think we have to step back and say, what are the things that we know to be good that we can do right now? Building more cleaner, more livable cities in New York City, they set a target of reducing their carbon intensity by 30% by 2030. They're going to get there by 2017 and the economy is growing. They found ways of growing the economy while at the same time reducing carbon footprint. So I would say at the end of the day that while there may not be some easy grand sort of bringing together of these issues, there are so many things that we know we can do right now and I would say we need to set some targets for September even for Secretary General's summit. Why wouldn't we be able to increase for example green bonds from the $10 billion current level to $20 billion? That's a perfectly reasonable goal to set something that's very positive and very good. Why don't we set a gigaton target for how much carbon as a world we can take out of the air over the next few years. So certainly there are lessons to be learned and both agendas I think are critically important. Al Gore is someone who's been known for a long time as a climate activist, evangelist. This must be music to your ears seeing development through a climate lens. Well, I think we're getting closer to a tipping point, a political tipping point. We're not there yet, but I want to thank Klaus Schwab and his team here at the Economic Forum for elevating the world's discussion of this issue and setting the stage for real action with the Secretary General's meeting in September and Dr. Kim's work. I think there is a convergence and a linkage. I think that the wonderful work that Bill and Melinda Gates are doing for example illustrates how crucial it is to because depressing the rate of child mortality, educating girls, empowering women and making fertility management ubiquitously available so women can choose how many children and the spacing of children is crucial to the future shape of human civilization. Africa is projected to have more people than China or India by mid-century, more than China and India combined by the end of the century. And this is one of the causal factors that must be addressed. Now where climate itself is concerned there is convergence there as well. These events that come out of climate related extreme weather really hurt the fight against poverty and the fight to improve health. This morning today there are 4 million refugees who are homeless in the Philippines and when Super Typhoon Haiyan formed in the windward areas of the Pacific before impacting the Philippines the Pacific Ocean was 3.4 degrees Celsius hotter than normal. 2 years ago just before Hurricane Sandy hit New York and New Jersey the windward areas of the Atlantic were 5 degrees Celsius warmer than normal. I think that these extreme weather events which are now 100 times more common than 30 years ago are really waking people's awareness all over the world and I think that is a game changer and it comes about of course because we continue to put 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every day as if it's an open sewer and the accumulated man-made global warming pollution there now according to calculations by NASA scientists trap enough extra heat energy in the earth system every day that equivalent to what would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs going off every day. That's why the oceans are warmer that's why the water, the air is warmer that's why the droughts are deeper the floods are bigger, the ice is melting but there's a second game changer and that is that the cost down curve for photovoltaic electric energy and to a lesser extent wind is now so impressive that in 13 countries the price of electricity from solar is equal to or cheaper than the grid average price and the projections are that over the next decade and perhaps sooner the vast majority of the people in the world will live in regions where that is true. It's not as steep a cost down curve as Moore's law and computer chips but it's very impressive opening up great opportunities for the world to really solve the climate crisis. Bill Gates I wonder how you view this new emphasis on climate and development. Do you have any concerns that if we place the emphasis more firmly in that direction that it may then reduce the focus in some of the areas where your foundation has made a lot of progress particularly on global health? Well the first thing I'd say is that the development agenda is actually going well and there's a bias because headlines are about bad news and setbacks and people want to raise more money want to remind us on what's yet to be done like a billion people still in extreme poverty but when you really look at it it's a very positive story whether you look at it from an economic point of view extreme poverty cut from 35% to 15% if you look at it on a country view the number of countries who've moved up to middle income now most people living in middle income countries which as you move up there you become at some point self sustaining and you don't need aid so we can focus aid on the countries that remain so we're doing a very good job on the economics we need to take the next 30 years and stay focused on that so I think as we renew the MDGs the idea of extreme poverty and child to death being there on the very first page as global priorities I think that's quite important the people who give aid like Norway who's extremely generous we're all getting smarter about how we use that and there's been a shift to health and agriculture there's been a shift to more measurement of these activities that hasn't gotten out and as Al Gore said if you get health improved if you get availability of contraceptions then families will voluntarily decide to have less children and that's good for all of this if you want to feed, educate preserve the environment getting the peak population to be closer to 9 and 10 billion that's good news so I don't think it's necessary focusing on climate change should take away from the development agenda climate change is a very important issue and in fact it should make us invest more in helping poor farmers because weather's always been a problem for them weather's increasingly a problem for them it wasn't good to begin with but the trends are not not in their favor and as they get better seeds, storage then they can handle a year that's bad now nutrition or in the extreme case starvation so the good news on the development agenda is there I think one thing that both agendas need is research and development focused on helping them achieve their goals so in health that would be an HIV vaccine a malaria vaccine in energy despite the progress reliable energy requires storage requires getting the economics to be even better and it's disappointing that the R&D budgets whether in the energy space or the health space haven't been a priority and the economic crisis has made it easier not to think of those investments because they only pay off in the 10 to 20 year time frame particularly if you add in the deployment complexities for both energy and health so I think both things are very important I think climates got an awareness problem and one issue I think we have to be careful of as the poorest are being lifted up as they're getting lights and refrigerators we are going to use more energy there's not a solution here where we use less energy we have to make the energy we use not emit any greenhouse gases and we have to make the energy available to the government I hope people are right that we can get the same sort of understanding of the solutions there that we now have in the development space well I'd like to turn now to the perspective from a country that sees the sharp end of all of this and turn to the finance minister of Nigeria how much are both of these challenges a debate a bit artificial in the sense that the way we experience these two phenomena if you want to put it that way on the ground is completely as one thing there's really no separation between the environmental impact and the development or poverty related impact I'll just give you a clear example in 2012 we experienced unprecedented floods in Nigeria and Benin on the West African coast that we hadn't had in 35 years and a million households were affected in my country and you know it set us back tremendously in terms of the poverty agenda livelihoods of farmers were wiped out investments we made in health and health clinics and all that were wiped out so there's no separation and to us if we do not get a grip now on solutions to deal with climate change today we look at everything we do I think this will cause a problem we also need to move away I think since we're experiencing this now we really need to move to solutions and I just want to say that in Africa we are not waiting we have come up with a solution of our own called the African risk capacity we've turned to private sector to look at what they're doing we've set up a weather based insurance mechanism we're trying to capitalise it with 150 million dollars countries will buy insurance and when there's an event instead of waiting several months for an appeal for humanitarian aid the insurance payments will kick in within three weeks I think we really need to focus on supporting these kinds of approaches that countries and continents are coming up with themselves to try to address both the problem of development and its linkage relationship with climate change I don't think we're focusing enough on that and we want action now well let's talk then about the solutions and get the business perspective because Paul Pullman from Unilever you know a company with a huge global presence the Secretary General has also called upon business to play its part what would playing its part or what does playing its part look like to you? Well the Secretary General was very courageous many times when he created the high level panel to look at the post-2015 goals he actually included some people Betty Maya from Kenya myself from the business community which obviously wasn't an easy decision and we had to earn our respect on the panel there but what was very clear is what Negosi says these issues are very integrally linked first of all let's go back to what this is all about is first and foremost as Bill mentioned is poverty alleviation but when we reached out as part of this year and a half effort on the panel it became also very clear with feedback by the way from business community that is about 10% of the global economy so an enormous response that we have to do this in a sustainable and equitable way and these are integrally linked and we should stop talking it as a problem but seeing it more and more as an opportunity which obviously would get much more attention of the business community so when we talk to the broader business community out there I think you see more and more business dealing with costs of climate change coming into their business model we're getting to a point that costs of some of the things that Elle was mentioning about the Philippines or other things exceed the cost of not having an investment are higher than the cost of doing the investment so it becomes an attractive opportunity in many of these areas and that is what obviously is very attractive for the business community you take the area of food security that Bill alluded to the billion people more or less that go to bed hungry every day not knowing that they wake up the next day yet we are wasting 750 billion of food in the supply chain 30 to 40% of the food is wasted that's an immense business opportunity forget about the fact that it's climate change because all that food needs to be produced the water so there's a climate change dimension to it so business understands the cost and wants to take more and more action business also unfortunately in the current economic or political climate looks a little bit more long term than the efforts politician and business is seeing what is happening with population growth running out of scarce resources with the projections of climate change if that is not reversed and business is actually more concerned than some of the political environment and then the last thing I mentioned is the opportunities so when we what we now see happening is here at the forum the world business council for sustainable development the global consumer goods forum we see enormous activities happening of multi-party partnerships often not only with the business community but also with governments or with civil society to attack these issues and to turn them in an opportunity the secretary general and myself this morning just came from the new efficient for agriculture something that started here four years ago it is now in 17 countries 5 billion is being unleashed the nutrition for growth added another 19 billion to that it deals directly with alleviating poverty focused on small farmers but under the zero hunger challenge in a sustainable way why not design it the right way we have created the topical forest alliance as an industry consumers don't want to buy anything anymore that comes from illegal deforestation we won't be able to sell out products assuming they know it is coming they are increasingly knowing because they are connected and talking to each other it happens in a factory in Bangladesh they also know or they certainly want to know if it is beef or horse meat they also want to know if it is sustainably sourced or non sustainably sourced it is happening as we talk just stopping the issue of illegal deforestation is 17% of global warming why not solve that in a way that also takes care of small hold farmers takes the climate change away 17% so business likes these tangible projects we have a unique opportunity now with the SDGs and the climate change negotiations coming together the summit that the secretary general has asked for in September to rally the business community to share these projects for scaling and to say also to our political community it is possible it is not a trade off we can do both and we can do both successfully for once in our lifetimes and probably the only our lifetimes not even our predecessors or the ones that come after us for once we have an opportunity all of us here in the audience in the next 15 years to eradicate poverty in a more sustainable and equitable way don't we want to be part of that and I can tell you I haven't met a business person who doesn't want to be part of that either Paul Paulman thank you let me turn now to the Norwegian Prime Minister Anna Solberg a new prime minister it's your first time at Davos your predecessors in the government made leadership on climate change really a cornerstone of what they're doing yours is a centre right coalition and I wonder whether the same leadership will be provided by Norway as has done in the past it will and it's the Norwegian parliament in 2007 and again in 2012 had a large agreement on the work against climate change it has a very strong and firm basis between most all of the political parties and the new government is ruling on that agreement and we are even saying that we are going to strengthen it with new measurements and of course fulfilling the goals that we have both internationally and nationally but if I may say something about the interlinking between poverty eradication and climate change I think we all can agree that these are interlinked we will not reach the MGGs if we have large climate catastrophes in the world because we know conflicts and catastrophes are turning backwards all the measures that we are reaching on the MGGs on the other hand we also know that growth has up until now been quite interlinked with more emissions so what we really do have to do is to decouple the economic growth with the emissions of greenhouse gases that means that we have to have these both about greenhouse gas emissions and about development at the same time and that means because I don't think any of us who sit in their well-being part of the world can say that the rest of the world will not need new energy because they will if we are going to reach the MGGs if we are going to increase them after 2015 then we will of course also need more energy and then we need mechanisms to make sure that that is more renewable that it's climate sustainable and that we have to look for that type of mechanisms as part of the new agenda and yet on this very note this week the European Union which has been one of the leaders of action in climate is rolling back on binding targets for nation-states on renewable energy Algel? Well I don't think that's fair Yes they rolled back the mandated targets for renewables but they actually moved aggressively forward in adopting a binding target for a 40% reduction in carbon emissions and actually the renewable energy projects have now, technologies have now begun to mature to the point where they can be a part of the mix. I still think there should be targets in my country for example but the EU has actually taken a step forward in my opinion So you weren't disappointed to see the announcement this week on the removal of those binding targets? I think that we have to wait and see how the enforcement mechanism is arrived at and designed because the 40% reduction will be allocated among the countries. There are large fines proposed for those countries that do not meet their allocated portion of the reduction target and how that works we will have to see but I am actually encouraged by what the EU has done and I think they've gotten a little bit of an unfair criticism on what they've just done Secretary General even in talks about the issues in climate I'm reminded of each time we have these big gatherings and you've referred to the one upcoming in Peru and later on in Paris, these are normally events which end with a huge amount of disappointment what is it that makes you think that your climate summit and the talks in the future are going to be any different? Before I answer that I would like to share with you what Vice President Al Gore just said yesterday I said this is a very positive one that EU has started ball rolling this is exactly what as a Secretary General of the United Nations before we convene summit meeting that the leaders would come out with bold measures and commitment to make sure that they are satisfied or not I think it is a very positive one we have to support as Al Gore just said that they are going to meet in March for summit meeting I strongly recommend and urge European leaders to make it a binding agreement internationally binding agreement which should be the commitment should be substantial scalable, measurable and also replicable this is my message and we will work very closely with the European Union and others there are some encouraging countries like China is also very much committed still they have to cut greenhouse gas emissions a lot but the leadership has a very strong commitment and even the United States President Obama is very much determined to lead this one even though he may have some congressional relationship difficulty with the Congress but I since you hope that all these major countries lead this campaign now about summit meeting there are some things that what kind of agreement or achievement will you have this is not going to be a negotiation forum negotiation will have to be done by at the United Nations framework convention on climate change what is known as UNFCCC but my message to the leaders is that this time you must be very serious we don't have time to lose give direction to your negotiators look beyond your national boundaries climate change does not respect the national border it impacts whole global world this is my message this will be a solutions based summit this will be action oriented summit this is my strong commitment then we will go through I expect that negotiators will make solid document draft documents so that from next year we will be able to really negotiate and then by the time it comes to Paris 2015 this is a promise agreement among the member states of the United Nations they agree that let us agree on climate change that is their agreement so they must keep this target by 2015 thank you let's just talk about the Millennium Development Goals for a moment and about the set of goals that will eventually replace them Bill Gates I wonder what you would really want to see you already said that you would want to see extreme poverty and childhood death on the first page but how ambitious should they be or is it important that they are achievable in order that some kind of momentum remains well the first MDGs did a fantastic job they actually set targets for the world that were so ambitious that we didn't achieve all of them the poverty goal number one we achieved people point out that China is a big part of that but the rest of the world also made progress we cut it by half going forward our analysis looking at getting vaccine distribution better new vaccines that will come along we think we can do another two-thirds reduction goal and from maternal mortality we ought to be able to cut that at least in half so the experts have been talking about ambitious goals and so if the original goals emerge as still big priorities the updating of those I think will be very straightforward Prime Minister I think one of the really good the reasons where we get these good results is that they were measurable they were concrete and I think it's very important that the post 2015 is the same that it doesn't come into it's measurable it's target that you can meet but they have to be ambitious at the same time and personally I believe also that there is a gender part of this because one of the areas that we have not reached the millennium goals on are some of the gender goals that we had that's why I think one of the priorities that we should work on still is girls and education because education is part of what really makes gender equality easier and we know it's a large investment when you invest in girls education but I think the most important thing is that we don't end up with political goals that are good to make speeches on but not very easy to measure if the politicians and the national leaders who have made the decisions in fact can follow through Minister Thank you I just wanted to come in here and say that one of the reasons why we sometimes encounter these difficulties in the summits that you talked about and we don't move forward as fast is because we haven't yet come to grips so agreed on how these meeting these goals are going to be financed I think that issues always found particularly for developing countries whether it's on the eradication of poverty agenda or the environmental integrating the environmental aspects the issue of financing is a very important one and it often breaks down when we can't come to agreement on that so I think we really need to think as we move towards the post 2015 and I want to thank the Secretary General for the panel that we were privileged to work on with Paul and others and what we achieved the financing and the enabling is key if we can't come to grips with that both for the environmental side the development side and the SDGs we will find I think we need to think very creatively work has shown both by the World Bank the international energy agency and others fossil fuel subsidies I think the latest figure is about $544 billion now you know that if we face this out we could release resources that would go towards financing some of these goals that we are talking about we need to think about how we can better mobilize their own domestic resources and I think in many of the African countries we have finance ministers we are actively ourselves meeting and thinking of how can we do better in terms of our own domestic resource mobilization improving our tax system financing ourselves not just about international donors no it's not all about donors now most of us you know we are now on a different path that's the path of looking at investment of the private sector and what we can do with private sector solutions that's the path of looking at ourselves and what we can do and there's very little investment really in trying to support these systems of domestic resource mobilizations better tax administration but also getting the world to phase out of fossil fuel we tried it in Nigeria it was a very costly political move and my president was very brave to stick with it and it was a very costly oil subsidies we have I think we should all be brave to try to I'd like to come to Paul Polman in a second but Dr. Kim I mean that's a call to action for you if not to be doing the financing but to identify those mechanisms to help the countries unleash some of those resources that the minister is talking about the fossil fuel subsidies is a great example and it's so politically difficult and so one social protection for the poorest so that the removal of fossil fuels has a relatively lower impact and sometimes that has made it easier to remove those subsidies but we've really talked about in the area of climate change five very concrete things that we can do right now you know we don't want to get into the situation that we got into in Copenhagen Moore's everyone was waiting for the political agreement thinking that's when they were going to take action so we've been focusing on things that we think are very practical that we can do right now the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies is so difficult politically but we're making support for the poorest available to any country that wants to start down that process I think but it could never amount to the same amount as the subsidy can it I mean the help that you offer yeah you know we think that there are good examples of providing enough social support for the poorest so that they are not impacted by the removal of fuel subsidies and the point is you've got to find a way to do that in order to make it politically feasible and there are some good examples of when that's happened again it's so difficult because most people are thinking in terms of short term political cycles but the other things like Bill mentioned about agriculture protecting smallholder farmers there are things that we can do right now in agriculture in urbanization and in making financing available for renewable energy we can do that right now and my own view if we get aggressive in setting some targets setting some goals that can actually help the political process be more effective so I just want to repeat we need to set some goals for what we're going to be pledging in September something that we can all bring to the table in September and hope that our concrete action will spur along the political process Paul Polman you were talking about business investing to guard against climate change but how do you the advantage of a national framework is that you can look at it in a broad perspective and join up what you do in different areas if different businesses act individually then how do you get the same effect you need a skill for impact to get the effect and that's obviously where the Millennium Development Goals come in because they provide a wonderful framework also for business like it does for government to force these partnerships so let me built on what Bill was saying there's an enormous progress we still have 500 days I always remind people my watch isn't giving the time it's actually counting the days that we still have to finish the other Millennium Development Goals that we're still working on so let's do that the business community has been extremely helpful to say we want clear targets we want these targets to be time bound we want to be held accountable like we hold other people accountable this whole transparency is a very important part of the goals that are coming up we also put a special section in on partnership there are two different forms of partnership one of them is a global partnership for the overall development which is a partnership based on morality the role that we have to speak for the people that can speak for themselves which is the ones that go to bed hungry and the second partnership is concrete partnership on projects where we all need to work together I think we've all come to the conclusion including business that these issues we're trying to solve here are incredibly complex and incredibly difficult to solve alone for governments, for business etc this is a unique opportunity that we have to work in this partnership and for business it has given an enormous education but also an enormous opportunity we've learned that it's not just about food security but it's also about nutrition and if it's also about nutrition it's also about wash and hygiene we've learned about the role of small-hold farmers we know how important it is to invest in women you have no idea what these Millennium Development Discussions do to educate business to make their business models more effective but also to see the business opportunities much broader on how they can contribute I'm sure that the future unilever business model in fact we're working this already is much stronger because I've spent one and a half years being exposed to a lot of other things bigger partnerships are emerging multi-party, not only business again with governments, with NGOs we probably would have never talked with if we sit in the room together and suddenly get a breakthrough there are two final comments one of them is what the Secretary General was saying before Felipe Calderon is working out a former president of Mexico on the climate economy we need to break this paradigm that we can't have one and the other we need to break this paradigm that we cannot alleviate poverty and solve climate change the climate change economy is going to show that this is an opportunity for positive growth for job creation to feed in your experiences and your examples the second thing is this is not a government process it really bothers me that we say these governments are negotiating something for the world this is a citizens process and business also is there to serve the citizens so we need to enroll the broadest group of people the response we got from young people in the process leading up to the Task Force report makes me convinced that we need to fight home just at the World Economic Forum here a project which is called Future Awesome where all the companies and others put all their connections together get the Twitter's, the Facebook's the Google's and others together as well we can connect a billion a billion and a half people to create this movement because it's for everybody out there you mentioned the complexity of the debate and I'll go I suppose the difficulty with climate has been the facts are so alarming and many people might feel that there's a line to the idea of a warmer world I think there's not much that can be done about it the business imperative is an interesting one and I wonder how much difference you think it is going to make to the mood on climate well Paul Pullman and the company he leads Unilever are among the finest examples anywhere in the world of business doing well and doing good simultaneously by having a higher ambition to adopt the highest values and consumer facing businesses in particular are rewarded for this as they should be but it helps them with retention and recruitment and with every aspect of the business it unlocks a higher fraction of the human potential among those who work in these businesses and businesses are beginning to show great leadership on the climate issue and on the development challenges that we have but still many do not and even with business leadership we will need governmental actions we need to put a price on carbon we need to put a price on carbon in markets and we need to put a price on denial in politics and we need to recognize as we head toward the secretary general's meeting in September that there is still a gap between the kinds of measures that are being discussed and the dramatic advances that are necessary in order to safeguard the future of human civilization. Elsewhere in Switzerland, thank you to the Swiss people, there are these negotiations involving the future of Syria that is a drought prone region scientists tell us that the droughts are made deeper and more harmful from 2006 to 2010 a million people from rural areas of Syria were driven by the worst drought they've had into the cities joining a million refugees from Iraq by the way and the sectarian tensions just bubbled out of control as a result in 2010 Russia had the worst drought in its history and the worst fires they withdrew their grain from the markets as did Ukraine and Kazakhstan because of the same climate related weather event and food prices reached the highest level in all of history it was a food vendor in Tunisia who set himself on fire many other factors but there were food riots in many countries we have to recognize that the vulnerability system to droughts fires the disruption of the precipitation cycles more threats from pests and heat stress itself this represents a huge challenge and so as we find ways to get a higher ambition to put a price on carbon we have to also recognize that yes it's a citizen problem governments will have to take action and Mr. Secretary General I hope that everyone here within the sound of our voices will be a part of the conversation and the cultural shift on climate and on the larger challenge of securing the human future so as to embolden the governments that you need support from as you tackle this challenge Bill Gates a final word about the next stage maybe of the foundations work are you going to broaden what you do so that you are working across some of what have been seen as divides in the development world in terms of mitigation the things that you do for poor farmers without climate change are exactly the same things you do for poor farmers with climate change you give them drought resistance seeds you give them higher and that's actually a growing part of our activity and a lot of great science that will let us move forward on that in terms of health as we've said that is the leading thing that gets these very high population growth rates down and that's occurring in exactly the place the world can least afford it's in Yemen it's in Pakistan it's in parts of Africa that have the least ability to support people so the focus of our foundation for my lifetime will be these health and agricultural issues you've got to specialize we think that we can go from a world where 6 million children a year are dying get that down to under 2 million and so we're going to stay focused on those things until we achieve health equity where if you're born in a poor country you're no more likely to die than any other child on the planet okay well these are these are big issues and this is a crucial moment to discuss them as the UN moves into really focusing on this in the months and in the 18 months also ahead and please join me in thanking all the panelists and thank you in the audience


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with pack number 350 of 2019-2020 Panini Chronicles basketball, it's a value pack, fat pack break, and with a shot at winning two spots in that Lakers random number block, it's over $500 value, it's pretty nice. Also within this pack break, we're giving away seven spots to this pack break. So if you're one of the first 23 people who purchased spots, which were all the straight up spots right there. So we're going to randomize that list and it's going to be the top seven after 11 are going to get spots in that break, or in this break, the pack break. All right, top seven after 11, one, good luck, two, ten, and 11, then final time after 11, here's the seven right here. You have extra spots. Thanks everyone else for giving this a shot.  All right, so let's put little rooftop symbols next to your name so you know that this was a spot that you want. So congrats to Brian Crouch, Robert, Stephen K, I think Stephen K twice, Kang, Logan, and Frank. So now let's grab all of these names right here, and now let's officially randomize a team to you, and then we'll do the break first, and then we'll take that list. Yes, winners do count for the giveaway at the end, which will be a new dice roll and a new list. Let's clear those out. All right, there you go. Good luck. Let's roll it, randomize it two and a four, six times for both names and teams, and then the giveaway will be a different dice roll. One, two, three, Jose, the directions for that number block is in the description itself. Check it out. Appreciate the order. I appreciate you just ordering without knowing what it is. Frank, down to Robert after six, we need like 15 more of you, two and a four, six times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, and six. After six times, we got the Lakers down to the Raptors. Well, okay, I'll explain it after this break. I don't think you read it very carefully. All right, so here's the first half right here. Logan, Griz, Brian, Pelicans, this is just a quick little pack break. Let's see what happens. Here's the second half of the list right here. It's sort by column B, and let's print and rip. You're not getting a team, by the way, Jose, you're getting a number, but again, I'll explain it when I finish this recording here. There's the print. I read looks the same as the other list. Let's breeze through these unless we run into a Zion or a Tyler hero or a John Morant. No, Kevin Porter, Jr., LeBron James, not bad. James Harden, where is he going to go? That's numbered. It's to 149. There's Yannis as well. There you go. Yes. There you go. You got it. You got it, Jose. Thank you. I know at first it seems kind of wacky. It seems sort of complicated, but once you get it, it's not that bad. Frank with the numbered James Harden, the LeBron James goes to Frank as well in the Lakers, and the Yannis goes to Matt Arnold and the Bucks. There's Kendrick Nunn, there's Kawhi Leonard, and there's Nasir Little right there. All right. Two crazy in that one packer. So now let's see who's going to win those two spots. So Kang down to Robert, let's pop you into this list right here, and let's roll it and randomize it. Five out of five, hard ten, top two after ten are in that Lakers number block. One, two, three, five more times, six, seven, eight, nine, and tenth in final time. Good luck. That's from spot three down to 30. Sorry. I appreciate you trying. I'm going to next time. In fact, we've got to do one more of these, so maybe try it once more, I think would be worth it, especially for something like a maculet. Congrats to Matt Arnold and Sean Maddock. Wow, what a run for Sean Maddock in the last two breaks here. There you go. Congrats to you. Thanks everyone. I'm knocking over my water bottle. Thanks everyone for getting into the action. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye-bye.


Welcome to this week's legislative update. I'm Jim Baumgart co-host along with Nanette Bullabush from Elkar Lake Yes, out in the farm country out there. Yeah, it's great to be in Sheboygan the city And we have an interesting program called hunting for heroes and we have two of the heroes with us that qualified to be considered heroes for a Wyoming hunt and we'd like to Let the public know that it's available to other veterans who are Disabled and we're going to get into that and with us. We have Gerald David from Howard's Grove and David Warnke of Howard's Grove both Vietnamier veterans are you? Yes. Yeah, so you saved us served over there and The kind of weather that is warming around where we have a little different temperatures here in Wisconsin Yeah, well, thank you very much and we're going to find out more about hunting with heroes So, thank you. It's just great to be here Jerry and David. It's great to have you here I am surrounded by heroes all three of you are veterans including Jim First I'm going to ask you to tell us about your service. What what was your service and when did you serve? And then I want to ask about hunting with heroes I'm a Navy veteran. I was a Navy corpsman assigned to various naval and Marine Corps units and I was Served from 66 to 70 and I was in Vietnam 69 and parts of 70 I was in the Army. I served from 70 to 73. I was in Vietnam for a little over a year I was with a engineering company we built roads and Several times or probably once a month I hauled supplies up to fire bases on the command Cambodian border Got back. I finished my service down at Fort Blitz, Texas Thank you. Thank you both for your service. I'm sure there are lots of stories They're just without even getting into hunting, but we're here to talk about hunting. So tell us what is hunting with heroes? hunting with heroes is a organization The part we were in bed then is based in Wyoming They have two different locations and two different groups of hunters came out We were based out of Riverton, Wyoming, and it was 12 disabled hunters with us The other group was out of a small town called Lysite and they had another 12 in each chapter. So this was an all-expense paid Trip except for transportation as I understand it and for how long was it and when was it? Well, the hunt is is basically a two-day affair Opening weekend of the of the season we Got there on Thursday Friday they met us for breakfast took us all to a range shot our rifles and then took us to and signed us guides and lodging and Fed us constantly Made you feel like heroes well They went above and beyond It was embarrassing the attention they put on us and And they gave you this quilt. Here's an IQ. Yes, we have a This is the time for someone made from Wyoming and you got to stay. Yes. This is it was my Guides 12 year old daughter that made that that right and I was walking up They had a whole bunch of quilts on tables and each veteran went up to pick up Quilt She said come over here. I got a quilt for you. Oh So she had to be her quilt that she made that that quilt had won first place in the county fair and the state fair and Hopefully we'll have that on The screen after a while because I think we have a picture of that and on the back There's lots of word including thank you for your service for your valid great for your courage Pretty awesome. Yeah, that I take a lot of time because my wife does useful quilts for the search and Those things take time to put together. Yes, they do. This is a separate organization Separate from the hunting with heroes called quilts of Valor and they're a national People who make quilts for I think I read they've made over 60,000 quilts that read that right National organization for veterans. They're all handmade. They're all different. They're all unique So the the the Wyoming group Heroes hunting was heroes brought together Communities they brought together the people that make the quilts and the guide services and everything to make this all work These are all volunteers. I mean nobody's double-grit salaries Some of those ships, haven't you? And I as I understand it no disability is too great for them. They will accommodate you They will accommodate whatever your disability is we've we One of the hunters was legally blind. He was able to see through his scope on a rifle But he had trouble getting around they had two individuals one was a double amputee from Iraq or Afghanistan and they provided him with a tracked wheelchair Got him around he got his antelope the other gentlemen had a Leg amputated the week before the hunt He had to still been in a lot of pain But they provided him with a tracked chair And he also shot an antelope Um, I think there was 24 hunters total between the two places and they went 24 hunters came home with an antelope Now the um the facts that they had to Apply it which means you had to meet some standard and being able to show that they're 50 percent disabled You get that from the veterans administration. Yeah, you'll need to take A world's letter. It's what it's called from the veterans that Tells them what percentage you're disabled and they have to be a minimum of 50 percent disabled Yeah, well that and that's father was a world war two veteran in a couple years ago. He Was provided a a trip out to the honor flight. Honor flight. It was the Ozaki Stars and strike So there's some very nice things that take place. I know the The muskies Fishing group takes a group of about a dozen veterans out every every fall to fish muskies So there are other things going on but people that want an experience hunting antelope or elk can look at this matter of fact My guess is that if they have any interest they should give you a call Absolutely more than more than happy to set up a hunt. I have no desire to go on another hunt I mean it was great. I'd love to do it, but I think if We did ourselves or maybe cutting somebody else out And what is it like to hunt in wyoming as opposed to say wisconsin? Yeah, they don't have trees out there I lived there for three years. I remember the lack of trees and the terrain, but you tell me What did you like about it? It's it's wide open You get to see lots of animals you get to do make lots of stocks and Decide some of them are successful and a lot of them aren't So it's just a different completely different hunting that was got I remember the sky feels closer Something this you see many more stars and it's just uh, I mean it's the west. It's the old west We've got the cowboy boat. You can just you can see forever Why don't we before I forget Gerald why don't you give Your telephone number and that'll show up on the screen after a while so that you want to apply because that's the whole reason You're here, right? Yeah, you want to promote the program because they've asked you to do that and you volunteer Absolutely another volunteer Yeah, I'm at<PHONE_NUMBER> and if for somebody has questions they can call you and absolutely Dave My phone number is area code<PHONE_NUMBER> And how much did this cost, right? The hunt itself was completely free Human boards were provided Guide was provided a volunteer guide Meat processing was provided Having the Head mounted was provided. The only thing it cost us was transportation from Wisconsin to Wyoming did you have your meat shipped back or did you drive Well, we fortunately went back two weeks later on a separate hunt Not associated with this and we picked up meat then and brought it back So you went out for a mule deer or about white tail deer We did and the accommodations it was in a tent in a sleeping bag Oh, I mean there's a company called stallion oil supply donated trailers That they put out in the oil fields More than comfortable trailers and The figure I heard was it cost stallion $30,000 to provide these trailers. Yeah And they they've been doing this now every year for a number of years Providing that I'm aware of it. It's about it's about five years. Is that right? It might be it might be four But it's it's not that old. Yeah so no You said they they had Some events for you you came out there on a Thursday and then you decided in your rifles on friday But friday evening and saturday evening you had some gatherings Friday friday evening we met With they introduced our guides to us They introduced all the hunters to everybody it was there was a couple hundred people at that event and fed us really well Saturday night they held another banquet and they must have been 300 people at that one And again fed us really well And at that time this Quilts of valor people were there and presented us with quilts and They had Drawings and they provided us each each hunter got a gift package with knives and sunglasses and cooler bags and Just lots of stuff and emotional experiences. I understand absolutely. They were all thanking you and saluting you Absolutely. Yeah So it's something that somebody especially they feel very Intense about their experience in the service and and would like to Experience something special For a veteran. This would be something they should consider. Absolutely. Yeah Triple the lifetime Well, we can't beat that can't beat that The people that began the Process I have it written down here. I want to give them some credit Dan Kura it was a graduate from OCS and a Vietnam veteran and Colton Sasser Who was wounded in afghanistan both while in natives and when they came back They there was a quietness and they wanted to do something special for those veterans that have served and that were Disabled There's there's one other gentleman who's known doesn't appear on their brochure That we dealt with out of riverton and his name is dan coil and he's a lifelong Wyoming resident and was Organized our group. Well, and and the hunting was on heavily on private property, although some was on public property through the It was a mix of private and public. Yeah. Yeah, so everybody teamed in Yeah, absolutely a whole lot of people coordinating this to make it happen It's awesome. So the most important thing you want people to know about this It's it's it's a threadable lifetime and We would like more people to apply and we will help them in any way we can to Set this up the and and you've heard it here They're willing to help the net and I are trying to promote it for these gentlemen And so I want to thank Gerald David and Dave Warnicke for their service and the effort of You to provide help for the Wyoming people to be able to have more veterans to enjoy an experience of a lifetime. So Until next time this has been Legislative uptake Thank you. Thank you


The VC world, the established venture capital world, for example, is very focused on minimizing risk, as any investor is. And in the VC world, unlike private equity or the public markets, you see very high turnover of entrepreneurs and companies. So you can invest in someone year one, and by year three, they're on to their next company. Or year five, they're on their second company. So you can conceivably have a fund invest in the same team twice or once at every fund that you have. So what happens is, on the one hand, that's great. It's great for an investor. They know where to put money in. They minimize the risk. There's a relationship, and it's awesome. For the entrepreneur that's made it, it's also great. You know where to go get capital. For the new kids on the block, not so great. Traditionally, a lot of VCs today will say, where'd you go to school? Have you made money from me in the past? Has anyone in your family made money from me in the past? Are you associated with anyone that's made money from me in the past? And if it's a no, no, no, no, you're out of luck. There are folks that are real leaders in the established venture capital community that are out there doing a lot of things, from hiring folks to investing in companies led by diverse folks, hiring people, interns, things of this nature. But they're not going to change their strategy to focus on these teams. So one-offs are great, but that's not the strategy that's going to get us to racial equity. The strategy to get us to racial equity is ensuring that we have teams in place that know the community, have the networks, have access, and are committed to investing in the best and brightest. California has 40% of its population today as Hispanic. 40%. It's huge. So the question is, do we believe that in this population, in this demographic, there's some talent? Do we believe there's some innovation and some creativity like there are in other communities? If it's yes, then there's some assets here, human assets and human ideas and creativity that's just waiting to be supported. So I believe that to have a vibrant country, to have a vibrant democracy, to have a future, a competitive future as a country, we need to include everybody's ideas, everybody's energy, everybody's innovation, everyone's willingness to really buy into the American dream. And that's where we get started.


Every gen 1er remembers that iconic battle in the indigo league which saw bellsprout go full ultra instinct and nearly knock ash out of the tournament. That was until ashes muck used some rather unorthodox methods to finally stop bellsprout in its tracks and ruin the dreams of so many of us bellsprout fans. I swear at the time I genuinely believed if muck hadn't beat bellsprout this thing would have went on to be the indigo champion. This was and still is one of my all time favourite moments in the original pokemon anime series and made me instantly fall in love with this shrub like pokemon. I'm not kidding when I say I was genuinely sad when bellsprout was smothered by muck. I mean it gave me a whole new love for muck as well as I wanted nothing more than to see ash win the league. But the setup for bellsprout was there and like many other epic anime arcs in this first series like the san tru guy, richie and the kids from the school of hard knocks. Bellsprout was brushed under the rug and never revisited until now. Can I, a multiple time pokemon world championship competitor prove that bellsprout is in fact strong enough to become a pokemon champion prove the anime and the naysayers wrong and show the kid that sat there over 20 years ago in front of a tv screen watching as my dreams were crushed that bellsprout has what it takes to become the very best. As pokemon were unwilling to commit to a new bellsprout anime series even after two decades of polite requests we only had one option with matters left in our own hands solo run. This was perfect we all know that only the strongest pokemon could single handedly beat an entire pokemon game. This was bellsprout's chance. Taking it right back to the beginning we would attempt a solo run of pokemon red and blue and if we could do it we would prove muck, ash and the pokemon company and all you bellsprout doubters out there that it was in fact as strong if not stronger than the anime showed it to be and this redemption arc wasn't going to be any solo run either. We were going to do this in the fastest time we could and with minimal battles. This means no going out of our way to battle trainers or wild pokemon we didn't have to so we wouldn't be over leveled and also no recovery items can be used during a battle i ignore potions or full heals etc. Now for the context bellsprout although in my eyes is a great pokemon in reality it is a stage one pokemon it has a base stat total of 270 and has ranked 117th out of the original 150 pokemon in pokemon's red and blue with 50 HP stat 75 attack 35 defense 40 speed and a special stat of 70 it doesn't have much to boast about. Its move pool isn't great either having only 9 level up moves and only able to learn 14 out of a possible 50 tms from the entire game. This made the challenge let's say a little more limiting than your usual run would be. So aside from some of these small constraints there was only one other obstacle i really feared going into this solo run and that was Koga the poison type gym leader of fuchsia city wielded the one opponent the ultimate nemesis of bellsprout and that was muck. Not only did we have a huge challenge in front of us to achieve a goal of becoming a very best we literally had to overcome bellsprout's greatest rival bellsprout wasn't going to let one purple mess ruin our road to glory. So with the sage set we went into our challenge we nicknamed our rival john head into the long grass outside of palatown and promptly get taken to professor ox lab where he introduces us to a level 5 starter pokemon bellsprout with fine whip and growth as our starter moves it surprisingly makes bellsprout somewhat manageable to deal with even with some of the more tougher opponents we'd face along the way. And yes there is the argument that i should have had my rival choose charmer under for a more challenging run but the fact is they would end up with an arcanine rather than the garrados in the final rival battle anyway along with blastoise's slightly better defensive stats it makes this a pretty trivial choice in my mind there is no argument it definitely makes the early rival battles a little easier but with a task at hand i'm willing to bend a little on this choice for us to begin the game. Anyway with our rival match not lasting more than two turns of vine whip we make a way to pick up ox parcel get a pokedex and a town map from our rival sister before taking on our first big challenge of the run against bug trainer with a level 9 weedle in viridian forest. We do level up a little with a couple of wild pokemon encounters before taking on this trainer as i feel this is important for the run which we will get into in a moment but with vine whip as our only attacking move we have to lean quite heavily on growth to boost a special attack before we are able to do enough damage and take the weedle down. As you'll soon come to see one of the issues we face a lot of the time with bellstrout in the early game is the low pp we have access to especially against a lot of type-resistant opponents we face. Next up is brock which bell spirit makes as you can imagine easy work of using its super effective vine whip attack earning our boulder badge we then move on to route three to take on our first bug catcher while using a combination of growth and vine whip to go through the different bug types they've got access to and this takes us to level 13 where we learn one of the most important moves of the game for bellsprout in rap. Now in generation one rap is a little broken as once used it prevents the opponent from attacking until the move is finished and rap can last between two to five turns it also has an added bonus that if the first hit is a critical hit then every subsequent turn after this will be a critical hit as well it does have a pretty shaky accuracy in 90% which we learned about many times in this run but anyway with rap at our disposal we are now able to better deal with the flying and bug threats that resist our grass type vine whip move which allows us to moor through the next set of opponents on route three before making our way to mount moon where we catch a paris to be our future harem and dig slave before arriving at cerulean city. Before taking on our arrival we head straight to the gym to take on the gym trainers to get a little more experience before taking on our rival which wasn't going to be easy. John our rival wielded a level 18 pigiotto which pulls a serious threat to our run firstly add out sped us and alongside it threatened with super effective flying type attacks as well as annoying moves like sand attack which lowered our accuracy we would need a little bit of luck going into this one so turn one we take a gust attack and go for a wrap but that misses not ideal we then eat a critical hit quick attack so we have probably one of the worst starts to this battle now on 25 hp at this point we go for another wrap which actually hits this time we then take a sand attack and luckily hit another wrap which ends up hitting four times to finally remove the pigiotto from the field next comes in abra which can only teleport so we use this time to set up our growths before thankfully landing in vine whip it lands a critical hit which actually means that a special boost from growth or ignored this turn we miss our next vine whip before another one lands and is able to take abra down rats attack comes in and I'm so worried that if our vine whip misses here a combination of tackling quick attack are probably enough to lose us this battle but we outspeed and vine whip hits leaving only square left to deal with our first vine misses and we eat a tackle but bellsprout pulls through and our next one picks up the knockout to beat our rival on our first attempt after such a shaky start we eventually are able to move on successfully before heading up nugget bridge we take on misty and make easy work of a two water type pokemon to earn our second gym badge before waking our way through nugget bridge and rescuing bill to get our ticket for the ssan now with our ssan ticket we board the ship and take on our next rival fight this one isn't as tough as our last one with our level increasing now we outspeed the level 19 pigiotto and land a wrap before it's able to even move which sets up a cleanish sweep of the team after it falls we get hm cut and move on to vermilion city gym we manage to crack the trash can code which never makes sense to me and take on lieutenant surge which bellsprout at this stage is level 31 and with our grass type resist electric type attacks we make a pretty clean sweep of this gym by button mash and vine whip a bunch of times earning our third gym badge we blindly make our way through the rock tunnel without many issues next arriving at lavender town before heading to celadon city to take on our first real encounter with team rocket we pick up tm 10 in the underground of the game corner before taking on giovanni which honestly even if we weren't as high a level would be a pretty easy match even if his kangaskhan didn't cause too many problems like it sometimes can now with the self scope acquired we decided to take on erica at celadon city gym it's a pretty easy match although we don't have many ways to hit her pokemon for super effective damage combination of rap and sleep powder in this match really carries us through pretty easily and earns us a fourth gym badge putting us right around the halfway mark next we make our way to the pokemon tower and have a more tougher challenge taking on our rival again i say tougher challenge as we're doing this at a way higher level the match isn't exactly too bad we outspeed the pidgeot which means we can use rap before it's able to land attacks or just rub with sand attack then comes in growlith knowing our rival has a cadaver which could cause us some issues we decide to sleep powder the growlith to get some growths off to better deal with the psychic threat on the horizon we land our sleep powder but only get two growths off before growlith wakes up then this leads to us missing three sleep powders in a row whilst getting burned from the incoming ember before it falls asleep once again using the sleep turns we manage to get up another three growths but sit around 54 hp as our onslaught begins thankfully our razor leaf doesn't land a critical hit here and picks up the knockout on growlith execute comes in next and we go for a wrap before our second one misses taking us down to 34 hp after a barrage hit from our opponent we land our next wrap which hits four times and looks like max damage to pick up the knockout leaving us on a near 16 hp before cadaver hits the field we go for a wrap and miss but cadaver throws up hail mary and goes for a teleport we go for another wrap and again it hits this time taking it down with two hits leaving us with four hp as war total comes in as our rival's final pokemon we outspeed and thankfully hit our razor leaf to pick up the knockout and oh boy four hp left did we get lucky here but we take those the burn made it closer than it probably should have been and we had multiple wrap misses along with this so if anything it just shows how well bellsprout performed even under these crazy circumstances so moving on we clear the tower get the poker flute from mr fuji and then make our way to self-court in saffron city to take on giovanni but only after taking on john and rival one more time this is probably one of the hardest rival battles in the game and i'm super worried as now with pidgeot at level 37 we no longer outspeed before we go into this match i teach bellsprout mega drain that we've acquired from beating erika as well as finally overriding rap with double edge that we picked up earlier on in our game we go into this match at level 44 turn one we take a wing attack and get lucky as our first sleep powder hits we get two growth off before it wakes up and lands a second wing attack taking us down to 45 hp there's another sleep powder put it back to sleep so thankfully that one did hit we get a third growth off but it instantly wakes up and we take yet another wing attack and get lucky once again with a sleep powder hitting putting the bird back to sleep and leaving us on 15 hp things are not looking super great at this point we managed to get another two growths off and then go from mega drain to recover some health we mega drain again just missing the knockout is pidgeot finally wakes up and now sitting on 63 hp managed to take the incoming wing attack to finish it off with mega drain the badge boost definitely helped us take that last wing attack a lot better here and just sidestepping here for those of you that don't know throughout gen one anytime you earn a new badge you get a 12.5 boost in the stat that that badge is associated with but it doesn't stop there there is a glitch in the game so anytime you have a stat altered like with growth these boosts are reapplied meaning you are getting multiple boosts anytime you have a stat altered so for this instance as the thunder badge gives us a 12.5 percent boost in defense every time we use growth that defense boost has been reapplied so explaining why we took less damage here from that final wing attack these additional badge boosts are lost if you level up in battle so it can be tricky if you are relying on them in some matches when this happens but being aware of this glitch definitely helps out a lot now back to the battle with pidgeot down next comes in growlith which we mega drain twice for the ko john then sends in execute we hit our sleep powder to get the sixth growth off and then finally hit another sleep powder before using a combination of mega drain and double edge to take it down alcazam comes in next and a no confusion critical hit means we were able to land a double edge for a clean ko leaving only his blast hose which falls with our final mega drain we had done it on our first try and i was so happy that this one match was done we then make a quick visit to heal at the pokemon center then return to take on javani for our next challenge this match honestly is a breeze as we sleep powder then in dorino growth up a bunch and then sweep through the entire team with ease so it's a pretty common trend at this at this stage we're using that sleep powder growth combination just to sweep through a lot of our opponents now we head to fuchsia city and grab some gold teeth and hm surf in the safari zone before taking on the fuchsia city jim koga the gym leader and bell sprouts biggest nemesis to date in our rematch with mac we enter the gym beat the two mandatory trainers on the route to koga and go into battle he leads off with coughing and rather than go for a sleep powder i straight off the bat start getting growths off i managed to get a maximum of six growths set up through a barrage of sludge and poison gas attacks then mega drain for the knockout whilst recovering some health as we take the coffin down we level up to 49 and lose all our badge boosts just when muck hits the field so not exactly the greatest timing we hit mega drain and it does over 50 percent as muck goes for a useless poison gas attack we were now about to overcome our first and biggest obstacle in this challenge no more will bell sprout be haunted by that muck incident from 20 years ago in the anime we hit mega drain but it crits so we miss the knockout as we take a sludge bomb which lands a huge critical hit taking us all the way down to 36 hp oh my god literally what's this happening again the rng gods were all against us but we click one more mega drain and muck is finally down that was way too close for comfort next coughing comes in as we mega drain twice to pick up the knockout and only wheezing is standing between us and victory i really am praying we don't see yourself destruct as i think from the current health level we will be knocked out we mega drain it toxics and sets us up for our next victory with two more mega drains we managed to knock out the wheezing avoid any self destruct and earn our fifth gym badge as we finally overthrow muck at the same time one step of redemption was made now with one challenge done our next one is just about to happen as we head back to saffron city to take on the psychic gym leader sabrina sabrina was always a scary proposition coming into this challenge with this strong psychic type attacks that were super effective against bell sprout i always felt that this would be probably the hardest battle of the entire run and it wasn't wrong our first attempt ended up super badly after we got knocked out by a psychic critical hit and it wasn't until our third attempt when we were able to take a psychic and get a sleep powder which allowed us enough time to get five growths off meaning we were in a much better position to start our in-game sweep mega drain barely missed the knockout on cadavera but put our hp back to a more respectable 73 hp level next we see sabrina use a hyperperson as we go for another mega drain giving us more recovery before a final mega drain removes the cadavera from the field next comes in mr mine which drops to a single attack venomoth then comes in as we hit a sleep powder and take it down with a single double edge alakazam comes in and is finished off with two mega drains and in hindsight i should have probably just double edged here as a psychic critical hit would have definitely taken us down and in the heat of the battle i just clicked mega drain thinking recovery was a better plan you know and having those six growths behind us i thought we were safe but you know you've always got to consider those critical hits especially in gen one when they are a bit more prominent coming out onto you but really gone like looking at it we've we've earned our sixth gym badge and we've finally beat sabrina so we can move on next up was blaine we used the same theme as we had been doing most of this endgame put the first pokemon to sleep growth up and then sweep through with a combination of mega drain and double edge this match was pretty straightforward and our seventh badge before we moved on to viridian city to take on giovanni one final time now again a little bit like blaine the giovanni match was pretty easy for us at this stage as well having a bunch of ground type pokemon that again couldn't deal with the growth boosted bell sprout one little bit helped us earn our eighth gym badge and we only had six more battles left before we able to complete our challenge and crown bell sprout potentially a pokemon champion next we had yet another rival battle against john who was even stronger before we made our way onto victory rod leading with a level 47 pidgeot this time it's still outspread a tiny level 53 weed and got a wing attack off before we once again were able to put it to sleep with sleep powder as pidgeots today sleep for five turns we managed to get five growths off then go for a mega drain to recover some of our health and then finish it off with one more mega drain right horn is next victim to come in before ground comes in and takes the drop to a mega drain and a double edge combination execute enters the field after this and because of the threat it poses with hypnosis i decide to sleep powder it before it is able to inflict the same status on us we hit and manage to remove it with two double edges before it wakes up again we take a little risk against algazam when it hits the field and go for two mega drains to knock it out but thankfully neither of its two psychic attacks land a critical hit before blastoise comes in and goes down once again to a single mega drain giving us a clean first time victory against our rival john once again before we head into victory road we decide to head around the kanto region to pick up some aether and max elixir items which we would need between elite four members and this definitely slows our progress down here but without these items i don't think we would be able to complete our challenge with the low hp attacks that we rely on with bellsprout after picking up what we needed we make our way to victory road and arrive at the indigo league now our biggest test is about to start the elite four can we make this final step with bellsprout and complete this redemption arc once and for all our first test is lower lie our bellsprout going into this match is at level 56 and although lower lie isn't the toughest of all elite four members i still need to respect her her ice types can pose a bit of a threat to our grass type bellsprout and without a little bit of luck especially as we weren't super over level going into this fight it could be a bit of a tripwire turn one we go straight for a sleep powder and hit now dugon just has to stay asleep long enough for us to get our growths off we managed to get four growths up before it wakes up which is honestly pretty nice we go for another sleep powder and hit giving us the room to get our final two growths off and maxing out our special attack stat this along with our badge boost puts us in a great position to now sweep through the remainder of our team dugon cloister and slobber all go down to a single mega drain before jinx hits the field as jinx is such good special attack i know that even boosted it won't go down in one hit to a mega drain and always threatenings are freeze on us with its ice type attacks we mega drain as it ice punches and yes no freeze this time leaving only lapras to deal with after the jinx goes down to another mega drain now lapras is a little like jinx in fact that it won't go down to a single mega drain and as it barely holds on lapras launches a blizzard which doesn't freeze us or create us meaning we are able to be lower alive pretty easily and on our first attempt allowing us to move on next we have bruno and honestly out of all the elite four members i don't think anyone ever worries about bruno all he's doing is stealing pp at this point i i do joke about this and make fun of him but i do feel sorry for brino hopefully one day he gets his own redemption arc in these games just like bellsprout is doing right now maybe that would make a good video when we do like a bruno run or something i don't know let me know down below i have what you think about that anyway bruno is pretty easy like i say once we set up the growth we can sweep through everything pretty easily there's only the match up that takes a couple of hits at the end before we take our victory and are able to move on now the next trainer is agathan this one is a little bit more difficult and probably one of the more trickiest out of all the elite four members with a speedy ghost types we don't have anywhere to deal super effective damage either double edge is useless and we have to navigate around confusion as well as sleep whilst worrying about the stray hairs from gallback which can undo all of our growth boosts in one fell swoop our best bet against agatha is getting lucky with landing a sleep powder on turn one and then getting max sleep turns to get those growth boosts set up whilst hopefully stacking the badge boost to add speed the haunter and the gengar in the late game to slowly eke out the win turn one we see a gengar at speed at bell sprout and go for a dream eater which fails as always as we land a sleep powder we manage to get three growths off before gengar wakes up now even though we have three growths and are stacking our badge boosts at the same time we are still at this stage slower than gengar so need to a little bit more luck to get all six growths up before we can start attacking for context we hit for such a lot of damage even with a max that special attack we can't afford to attack into the gengar or the haunter before maxing out our damage the next turn gengar goes for a confusory and hits this is really bad and i know if we don't get the the rolls here it could end our run and we end up hitting ourselves in confusion next turn it goes for a dream eater which is good for us while we manage to hit through the confusion this time and land a sleep powder so really fortunate turn for us here we go for a growth but hit ourselves in confusion once again this is on sleep playing out like i feared it would we try and go for a growth the next turn and finally snap out of confusion to land a fourth growth gengar stays asleep which is huge and now we are out speeding it with a badge boost stacking alongside a growth boosts gengar stays asleep another turn as we get our final sixth growth off we manage to get two mega drains off before gengar wakes up and then goes straight for another sleep powder which luckily makes direct hit again we mega drain two more times and agatha's first gengar is down next gold bad comes in as i'm worried about the potential haes coming out from it here and risk losing all of our kind of growth boosts to go for the sleep powder it hits and gold bad falls asleep allowing me to deal with it pretty quickly with two double edge attacks haunter's up next and our bell sprout has now hit its best form landing another sleep powder straight off the bat before taking it down with three mega drains our bulk hits a field next we land yet another sleep powder and it goes down to two double edge attacks agatha then sends in her final pokemon gengar and go for a sleep powder again put ourselves in a great position to close this one out and we land a mega drain but then forced to use an elixir as we run out of mega drains and hindsight we needed this over the next few turns agatha uses two super potions to heal her gengar meaning we need an additional five mega drains to finally take it down and move one step closer to becoming the champion with agatha done that means lanters up next and here we had a couple of problems first one was our moves were really low pp and we only had one sleep powder left currently and with our remaining elixir i wanted to kind of keep this before we took on our arrival for the final battle so we need to be very smart about our move choices in this match and pretty lucky at the same time as well the next issue was we were very close to actually leveling up so if we wanted to utilize our badge boosts alongside any subsequent growth boosts that we would normally use then we'd need to set them up after defeating the garrados so they won't reset alongside that level up that we gain after beating the garrados and why is this important well if we lost these it makes the aerodactyl match a lot harder so in order to have a better chance against it we need to utilize the additional badge boosts we have access to after defeating the garrados so we don't lose them when we have that level up with all this in mind we go on to the battle turn one garrados uses lia thankfully not hyper beam we try to put the garrados to sleep but we miss our only sleep powder we have access to next we try and get some damage off with mega drain as garrados goes for a dragon rage next it goes for another layer as we double edge and the interesting thing here is that these layers although they're lowering our defense are actually stacking and activating our badge boosts meaning the next time we actually add speed to pick up the knockout on garrados before it is able to move now after leveling up on the garrados dragon air hits the field all we need to worry about here is a potential hyper beam it goes for an agility so that's good as we start going for the growths we managed to just get six growths off straight away against the dragon air as it keeps on clicking agility now we have set ourselves up to deal with everything left on lances team we just need to avoid any potential critical hits next we go for a mega drain to recover some health and the next one takes down the first dragon air at full health the next dragon air hits the field and rather than wait until after the match we use a final elixir to restore bell sprouts pp currently next we use double edge for a clean one hit kill and then sleep powder the aerodactyl which comes in and we outspeed thanks to our badge boosts two mega drains and a hyper portion and one double edge later and the aerodactyl drops leaving lance with his dragonite as his last pokemon for us to defeat we land a sleep powder and hit two double edges as a dragonite barely hangs on to wake up just to get off a barrier before it goes down to one final double edge and with that we move on to our final battle of this challenge one step closer away to becoming champion with bell sprout only john stood in our way now bell sprout was level 60 at this point going to this last match and we were six hours and 44 minutes on the clock and all i'm thinking about now is can we do this last final rival battle on our first attempt my big concern about this match was firstly john's pigard as it will outspeed us and can threaten with big damage critical hit and it could halt us instantly in our tracks especially if our sleep powders aren't on point secondly if we aren't able to set about growth at this stage before the alakazam comes in then we could easily get swept by it it's strong psychic type attack and it's crits that it could potentially hit us with so it could go downhill pretty quickly now we go into this match turn one pigard goes for mirror move which is great it fails obviously as we sleep powder and it hits so bell sprout on form straight away next we manage to get off four growths before pidgeot wakes up and with our badge boost behind us we now add speeder and get lucky landing our second sleep powder we get our final two growths off while pidgeot stays asleep as we go for two double edge attacks to take it down next comes in alakazam and again looking back i should have just double edged here but being probably a little more nervous i go for the sleep powder when it's not really needed if we miss the sleep powder that would open us up to a whole bunch of rng that could finish our run right now thankfully though with the luck on our side we hit the zam takes a nap and then we mega drain and double edge for the knockout ride on comes in next and goes down to a single mega drain and then arcanine comes in we hit a sleep powder onto it yes we're nearly there it stares asleep as we double edge in mega drain twice to take the fire dog down executive comes in next we sleep powder again and hit the bell sprout is on a mission eggy stares asleep while we double edge twice for another knockout and now we actually level up with blastos coming in next we lose all of our badge boosts are literally the worst time because blastos has blizzard and if it crits us it will take us down and blastos will move first here we go blastos going for the blizzard it misses it misses it misses here we go and we mega drain knockout and the bell sprout on our first try has become the pokemon champion as solo run is complete bell sprout has the redemption only after three restarts this entire run using no recovery items in battle we managed to do this under seven hours which for my second ever solo run attempt is pretty good ah i feel so happy we managed to do this and yet we got some luck along the way but i feel uh with a chance like this you definitely need a little bit of luck to help you along bell sprout is actually an incredible mod it's not got the best move pool or base stats but with the tools it has you can definitely do a job and do it super well and i can finally say it rose above all expectations to become a champion just like it showed the potential to do all those years ago and that anime during the indigar league i hope you enjoyed the solo run challenge if you have please drop a like on the video if we can hit 200 likes on this video i will do another one of these challenges very soon please leave a comment down below if you'd like to see me try the challenge with another pokemon that you'd like to see i love gen one so these challenges although super new to me are something i really love to do and would like to try it again sometime soon so thank you so much friends for tuning in i do feel like we could do this a lot faster but like i say this is one of my first attempts doing a solo run so i'm still kind of figuring out the best ways to go about completing the game and learning about what i need to do along the way and i'm sure as the more i do these solo runs the quicker i'll get and the more exciting they'll become the more challenging things i can add in to to complete them so thank you for taking the time to come by and support the channel take care and until next time see ya


going forward as not in the beginning you have been a strong advocate of this economic model based on participation of us for economics and I personally think this is a very good example of the kind of positive radical approach I mentioned you your discussions usually start with theoretical critiques of orthodox economic thinking and also many other approaches including market socialism and all these things and then you start to provide a kind of a positive contribution or application of that forms a whole entire economic order of model can you tell us how did you get there what's what is the kind of intellectual history of your endeavor in advocating participatory economics well in part a lot of intellectuals are sort of psychological contrarians and I think that would be an apt characteristic for both myself and my partner in this project Michael Albert so that's part of it and in 1983 Alec Nove, this is a very famous well-known very good political economist you might have might have been aware of he was a leading expert on the Soviet economies not uncritical but he actually studied them and knew what they did and it was not just the sort of standard pro-capitalist dismissal of them as they're obviously just impossible messes so he had spent 20 or 30 years in his career really studying the Soviet economies very thoroughly in 1983 he wrote a book called the economics of feasible socialism in which he was arguing for a kind of market socialist mixed economy he's very very friendly to the Scandinavian model and something wanted to take it he would have been you know very comfortable with the Meibner plan in 75 actually gets enacted and you know Scandinavian social democracy evolved even further in direction of market socialism where the enterprises are predominantly you know employee and that was what he was arguing for in the book but in the practice to the book he he said look I have many many friends and I've had them all my life and they're very very well-meaning and they believe that there is an alternative to a market system and authoritarian plan and they're wrong there simply is no alternative to a market economy or an economy that you might think that you might want to not think of it as a authoritarian planning but it will be those are the two choices and he was saying this because he said I very well-meaning friends who hesitate to endorse my economics of feasible socialism because they're holding out for something else but it's a myth they're naive it's an impossibility and that's this is where the having a contrarian personality you know perhaps comes in anytime somebody tells me it's impossible I'm not going to take it on faith and in particular the thing he was telling me was impossible was what I thought we socialists had always wanted and this was actually prior to reading a lot about sort of libertarian socialist writings and what socialists were writing about in the 1890s in the you know before the Soviet Union before the centrally planned economies in the Soviet Union when you read what socialists were writing back then they were clearly thinking about something that was not a market economy driven by market forces not a system of sort of centralized planning by a bureaucracy they were thinking about something and now I have somebody telling me that this was this was just a myth and that people need to grow up and get over it and it's become an obstacle to progress so in part to have a set down to say just because some just because Alec knows says so doesn't make it true let's see if we can and the other thing that was going on was when we started to look at the way that socialists wrote any socialists who said no no I don't mean the Soviet Union and no I'm clearly not talking about just another kind of market system we thought there's a lot of rosy there's a lot of rosy rhetoric here and there's a lot of Polly Anish sort of wouldn't it be not wouldn't this world be nice but they're not a lot of concrete answers about in there in any economy there's a whole bunch of different kinds of decisions that have to get made and at some point there has to be a concrete answer to this kind of decision how exactly do you propose that it be made so this vision that we always thought was perfectly possible and thought was what many socialists had long been about suffered from a lack of any sort of concrete rigorous well here let's say this is how it can be done and then we can sit down and see if it really does look good or not and we can sit down and really see if it is an impossible if somebody like I know is assuring us that was the origins and I guess I'm very pleased that over a almost 25 year time period now we've managed to write enough about it so that I'm seldom told this is a theoretical impossibility anymore I'm told it's a practical impossibility because there's no way to get there from the mess we're in and I'm completely sympathetic with that but at least I'm no longer being told that it's simply a theoretical impossibility that an economy could be running this way so that's that's really where it came from