Swiss lecturer Bertrand Piccard, who successful flew around the world in his solar powered plane Solar Impulse, was one of the main “change-makers” who addressed the “European Ideas Lab”, organised by the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA Group in Brussels on 1-3 March.
Clean growth is better than today’s dirty status quo, he argued. In the course of a combative speech, Piccard, who has set himself the target of coming up with 1,000 viable solutions for the climate by the end of...