Climate Change, Growth and the Politics of Transformation

Climate Diplomate, Independent Commentator and Advisor

 

A rapid transition to a carbon neutral energy system across the major economies - and thus a successful response to climate change - cannot be accomplished within the current growth model. A high degree of intervention will be required but there are no historic analogues for its nature, scale or intensity. In other words we have a broken compass and no map. What is to be done?

 

Enquiries to Claire Livingston (claire.livingston@surrey.ac.uk), Administrative Co-ordinator There is no cost to attend this seminar but please let Claire know if you plan to attend as spaces will be limited.

 

 

Best known as one of the world's leading climate diplomats, John Ashton is now an independent commentator and adviser on the politics of climate change. From 2006-12 he served as Special Representative for Climate Change for three successive UK Foreign Secretaries, spanning the current Coalition and the previous Labour Government. He was a cofounder and, from 2004-6, the first Chief Executive of the think tank E3G. From 1978-2002, after a brief period as a research astronomer, he was a career diplomat, with a particular focus on China.

 

He is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, a visiting professor at the London University School of Oriental and African Studies; and a Trustee of the UK Youth Climate Coalition and Tipping Point. He is also a non executive Director of E3G.

 

For more information on John visit the E3G website here.