Category Archives: Speaking

As part of London Climate Action Week (LCAW), I chaired a fantastic panel that explored how to maintain focus and attention on reducing emissions even as horrifying climate impacts grow, featuring: Nina Jess, Schwarzman Academy Fellow, Environment and Society Programme, Chatham House Dr Jesse Reynolds, Executive Secretary, Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate OvershootContinue reading “Event: Beyond ‘Hopeium’ and ‘Doomism’, Chatham House”

Part of an event on “Governing in the climate crisis: how should future leaders prepare?”, I explored how the environmental crisis is creating a more chaotic – or ‘turbulent’ – world, what challenge that poses for the sustainability transition, and how emerging leaders need to be supported in their journey to senior leadership under theseContinue reading “Event: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford”

Ben and I had a chat about how fossils fuels fuel Putin and the climate crisis, both of which are drivers of global insecurity, and what we can do the tackle them simultaneously.

At this Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator event, I was joined by an excellent panel to discuss the huge challenges facing future leaders and what we can do about it: Ana Yang, Executive Director, Sustainability Accelerator, Chatham House May Boeve, Executive Director, 350.org Dr Kate Guy, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of State Gadir Lavadenz, Global Coordinator, CBD Alliance Dr DanielContinue reading “Event: How can future leaders prepare for an environmentally-destabilized world?”

I spoke with Nigel Farage on GB News about the importance of COP26 and how these years are the crunch time for climate action.

I spoke with Nigel Farage on GB News about gas prices, how the green transition will mean we’ll become less reliant on high prices, and how government could have insulated homes and made us less reliant already.

I was interviewed by Paolo DeAndreis at the Olive Oil Times about the joint editorial from 200+ health journals on climate change, of which I was a co-author. Read the interview here: https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/world/editors-from-200-health-journals-warn-climate-change-is-creating-global-health-crises/98679.

I spoke with Nigel Farage on GB News about the IPCC’s latest report and how it’s a ‘code red’ for humanity.

24th May 2021 I gave a talk at the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter that explored the grand strategy for re-stabilising the natural world – or lack thereof – and how this will have to increasingly contend with the destabilising consequences of the environmental emergency. Check out the video below and readContinue reading “Seminar: Into the Storm – Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter”

Mat and I had a great chat with Martha Dillon at It’s Freezing in LA! about Planet on Fire – which they also reviewed. Check it out: https://www.itsfreezinginla.co.uk/post/a-primer-for-ecosocialism