A community built for impact

We Don’t Have Time founder Ingmar Rentzhog explains why dialogue and understanding are key to climate action

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Published: May 2, 2025
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This article first appeared in our Earth Day 2025 issue of My Green Pod Magazine, published 22 April. Click here to subscribe to our digital edition and get each issue delivered straight to your inbox

It is 2016. For decades, climate science has been making it explicitly clear that the climate crisis is the defining challenge of our era, and that the world is running out of time to prevent catastrophic global warming.

Just as a glimmer of hope breaks through with the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the harsh reality of the road ahead is revealed.

The election of science-denier Donald Trump was a wakeup call for me; I realised then that watching from the sidelines was no longer an option.

Global warming was accelerating, but powerful people continued to ignore, delay or even deny the crisis.

If meaningful action wasn’t coming from above, it would have to come from us, the people.

That was the spark that ignited We Don’t Have Time; co-founder David Olsson and I set out to ignite a global movement that could turn public concern into collective pressure, and mobilise people everywhere to demand decisive action from leaders, businesses and institutions.

Today We Don’t Have Time is the world’s largest media platform dedicated to climate solutions, connecting millions of people in 180 countries to businesses and decision-makers, so together we can drive real change.

Bridging the gap

We Don’t Have Time is more than a media site; it is a global platform dedicated to opening dialogue for climate action.

Through its own reporting, analysis and broadcasts, and the activity of its user community, it highlights the most pressing environmental challenges and the solutions that can address them.

Too often, sustainability issues enjoy widespread public support, yet decision-makers fail to act. Simultaneously, some leaders are open to bold initiatives but hesitate, unsure whether the public will back them.

We Don’t Have Time bridges this gap by ensuring that climate concerns and solutions are heard by those with the power to implement them.

One of the key ways we do this is through climate reviews, where users direct feedback at businesses, institutions and leaders.

Sharing Love & Warnings

Our community posts Climate Love to celebrate victories, support positive initiatives and express gratitude; Climate Warnings to call out short-sighted decisions and practices that exacerbate the crisis and to urge those in charge to do better and Climate Ideas to propose climate solutions or greener practices that users would support.

When a climate review gains traction, we make sure it reaches the intended recipient and invite them to respond, either directly on the platform or via broadcast dialogues. And it works.

So far, thousands of climate review recipients have replied on the platform, including business titans like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, world leaders like Jair Bolsonaro and major companies like Shell and Ikea.

Such engagements have led to real changes. For example, a climate warning posted to We Don’t Have Time in early 2024 caught the attention of AP7, Sweden’s largest pension fund, which had about €50 billion invested in Saudi Aramco, one of the world’s dirtiest oil companies.

This led to my live dialogue, broadcast to millions of viewers, with Johan Floren, chief ESG and communications officer for AP7.

Following sustained media attention and mounting public pressure, AP7 announced in June that it would divest from Saudi Aramco and six other major emitters.

The power is in your hands

We Don’t Have Time believes that this is the way forward: more dialogue, more understanding, more action.

Publicly bringing leaders and the climate movement together drives solutions, and We Don’t Have Time is committed to making that happen.

The climate crisis is not a foregone conclusion. Great strides of progress are being made towards avoiding a planetary catastrophe – but we are not moving fast enough.

We don’t have time to wait for leaders in business and government to realise the urgency of the moment; we need more action now, and we need to engage those in power to get it.

The power is in your hands; you can help to spark the next climate breakthrough by downloading the We Don’t Have Time app and directing a Climate Love or Warning at a business or leader; We Don’t Have Time will facilitate the public conversation.