Laurie

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”

Video: A Toxic Inheritance

I did a video on my latest IPPR report – Inheriting the Earth? – which looked at the huge intergenerational issues at the heart of the environmental emergency.

Inheriting the Earth? The unprecedented challenge of environmental breakdown for younger generations (IPPR)

17th September 2019 Younger generations, in addition to being economically worse off than their parents, face a future of unprecedented environmental breakdown. They will disproportionately bear the burden of having to rapidly transform economic systems in order to decelerate environmental breakdown while withstanding its increasingly destabilising consequences; an unprecedented challenge. Leaders in older generations are failingContinue reading “Inheriting the Earth? The unprecedented challenge of environmental breakdown for younger generations (IPPR)”

Video: Lessons from the 1930s for a Green New Deal

I spoke at a Forum for a New Economy, Berlin conference in Paris about the lessons from the economic change that happened before, during and after World War II.

The G7 was a joke. Three degrees warming isn’t

The spirit of international cooperation is an advanced state of decay — and last week’s G7 Summit offered the latest illustration. President Trump — preening, bullish — dismissed the environmental crisis as a ‘dream,’ and dismissed any notion of joint action on climate in the process. The remaining ‘advanced economies’ of the G7 offered to send $20Continue reading “The G7 was a joke. Three degrees warming isn’t”

A Blueprint for Europe’s Just Transition (Europe for a Green New Deal)

1st September 2019 I was a contributor to a major report from Europe for a Green New Deal on how to realise a sustainable and just green new deal for Europe.

Panel: The Big Tent Ideas Festival

I spoke at the Big Tent Idea Festival about a new economic system capable of dealing with the challenges of the present and future.