Category Archives: Speaking

I spoke with the Pakistani news broadcaster about how climate impacts in one place have consequences further afield.

I tried to explain how becoming less dependent on deadly and volatile fossil fuels can benefit us all.

I spoke to the Social Guarantee about how collective services are more sustainable.

We spoke about, you guessed it, fracking.

I spoke about how the privatised water system is failing us.

He thinks that in ‘tribal societies…you cannot have a modern, developed economy’ and that we can’t allow modern medicine to go into such societies as they will then have a larger population, which they will fail to sustain.

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”

I joined the launch event for this new organisation to talk about complex, cascading risks.

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.