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
Category Archives: Speaking
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
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.
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.
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.