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Panel: We Are Not Ready

I spoke at and chaired a panel at the launch of the final report of my IPPR programme on environmental breakdown.

Quote: Tackle UK carbon emissions by working with nature, government urged

I spoke with the Guardian about how the UK is not ready to respond to the challenges of the environmental emergency at the launch of the final report of my IPPR programme on environmental breakdown: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/24/tackle-uk-carbon-emissions-by-working-with-nature-government-urged

We are not ready: Policymaking in the age of environmental breakdown – Final report (IPPR)

24th June 2020 Environmental breakdown is the defining challenge of our time. This is the final report of a major research programme – responding to environmental breakdown – investigating the implications of the global environmental crisis for politics and policymaking. A new approach to policymaking is needed. In response, this paper defines overall conditions forContinue reading “We are not ready: Policymaking in the age of environmental breakdown – Final report (IPPR)”

The Gradual Encroachment of Ideas: Lessons from the paradigm shift to embedded liberalism (Forum for a New Economy)

5th May 2020 Elements of the shift to embedded liberalism are of interest for those seeking to understand how political-economic paradigms shift or to precipitate such a shift today. Two policy programmes were particularly important: structural reform of the global financial system, manifest in the creation of the Bretton Woods system; and a shift inContinue reading “The Gradual Encroachment of Ideas: Lessons from the paradigm shift to embedded liberalism (Forum for a New Economy)”

Panel: Change Only Through Crisis?

I spoke at a Forum for a New Economy, Berlin conference about the role of pandemics in driving political and economic change.

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)”