Success, failure, and the imperative for justice in climate negotiations Recent United Nations Conferences of the Parties (COPs) have demonstrated that health professionals are playing an increasingly prominent role in calling for rapid action to address the climate crisis.[1] COPs take place in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, theContinue reading “Comment: WHO Bulletin”
Author Archives: Laurie
Interview: Financial Times
I spoke with Attracta Mooney at the FT about the 1.5C climate target. You can read it here.
Coverage: New Statesman
The New Statesman covered our report with IPPR and Chatham House, which you can read here.
Coverage: The Mirror, World risks falling into climate ‘DOOM LOOP’ as ‘phoney war’ with crisis ends
The Mirror covered our IPPR and Chatham House report, for which I was the lead author.
Interview: The Guardian, World risks descending into a climate ‘doom loop’, warn thinktanks
I was interviewed by Damian Carrington about an IPPR and Chatham House report, for which I was the lead author.
Report: 1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal
I was lead author of a report from IPPR and Chatham House. It’s part of the Cohort 2040 project. It argues that the historical failure to sufficiently tackle the climate and ecological crisis could create consequences that challenge the ability of societies to tackle the root causes of this crisis. This is a doom loop:Continue reading “Report: 1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal”
Interview: Washington Post
I was interviewed by the Washington Post about an IPPR and Chatham House report, for which I was the lead author.
Interview: Radio Ecoshock
I spoke with a syndicated radio show about a recent IPPR and Chatham House report. You can listen here: https://www.ecoshock.org/2023/03/avoiding-the-doom-loop-in-the-age-of-crisis.html.
Interview: BBC World Service
Over the last few years, I’ve been helping develop a new board game on the climate crisis. It’s called Daybreak. We played it with the BBC World Service. Listen to the podcast below.
Panel: Climate Change and (in)Security Project conference
I spoke about how to increase climate security literacy on a panel at the CCIP conference.
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