I spoke at a Forum for a New Economy, Berlin conference about the role of pandemics in driving political and economic change.
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What’s Causing the Environmental Crisis? Interview with Julia Steinberger
Human destabilisation of natural systems is related to a range of factors, including technology, population, and, importantly, levels and types of consumption. In turn, these factors are affected by a host of economic, political, legal and cultural considerations, which differ markedly throughout the world. In this episode of the “Great Unraveling?” series, Julia Steinberger joinsContinue reading “What’s Causing the Environmental Crisis? Interview with Julia Steinberger”
Video: Our Responsibility: A new model of international cooperation for the era of environmental breakdown
We introduced the themes of a new IPPR report on the threats to and type of international cooperation we need to respond effectively to environmental breakdown.
TV: International cooperation and environmental breakdown
I spoke with Adam Boulton on Sky News about international cooperation and environmental breakdown on the day we launched an IPPR report on the subject.
Quote: UK should contribute £20bn to UN climate fund by 2030, report says
I spoke with the Guardian about how the environmental emergency requires a new type of International cooperation – and is also a threat to it – at the launch of my new IPPR report on the subject: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/29/uk-should-contribute-20bn-to-un-climate-fund-by-2030-report-says
Our responsibility: A new model of international cooperation for the era of environmental breakdown (IPPR)
22nd November 2019 Environmental breakdown is accelerating and poses an unprecedented threat to international cooperation. A new positive-sum model of international cooperation is needed, which should seek to realise a more sustainable, just and prepared world. This necessarily requires communities and countries to better recognise their cumulative contribution to environmental breakdown, and their current capabilityContinue reading “Our responsibility: A new model of international cooperation for the era of environmental breakdown (IPPR)”
A sustainable economy act
We live in the age of environmental breakdown. Destruction of the natural world has reached a critical phase. Crucially, this isn’t isolated to climate breakdown. Vast swathes of land are being lost to soil depletion, over-fertilisation is polluting rivers and oceans, and animal populations are collapsing as the sixth mass extinction tears across the world.Continue reading “A sustainable economy act”
Quote: How the UK economy – and you – must change to reach net zero carbon emissions
I spoke with the Daily Telegraph about the huge benefits and changes that will have to occur in the UK to overcome environmental breakdown: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/09/27/uk-economy-will-have-change-reach-zero-net-carbon-emissions/
Podcast: Back to the Future
I spoke on Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd’s Reasons to be Cheerful podcast about the intergenerational issues at the heart of the environmental emergency.
Without a Future Generations Act, we will pass a toxic inheritance to our kids
We’re all aware of the fact that millennials and younger generations can no longer expect to be ‘better off’ than their parents. But the situation is far worse. As a result of the environmental crisis, these generations can expect to live in a world in which nature is critically impaired, threatening the stability of societies. Continue reading “Without a Future Generations Act, we will pass a toxic inheritance to our kids”
Laurie Laybourn 