Post Carbon Pathways

Kevin Anderson is professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of
Manchester.

Kevin is the former director and now deputy director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research organisation. He has recent publications in Royal Society journals, Nature and Energy Policy, and engages widely across all tiers of government. Kevin has a decade’s industrial experience, principally in the petrochemical industry. He sits as commissioner on the Welsh
Governments climate change commission and a director of London’s Greenstone Carbon Management.

Paul Gilding, Giles Parkinson and Prof Mike Sandiford discuss the latest developments in the rapidly changing energy environment with journalist Alexandra de Blas. Presented by the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network, Oct 2012.

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Professor John Schellnhuber is Director, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Chair, German Advisory Council on Global Change. Professor Ottmar Edenhofer is Deputy Director and Chief Economist, PIK and Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC

In this interview Professor Schellnhuber and Professor Edenhofer outline their views on the speed and scale of the social, political and economic transformations needed to reduce the risk of catastrophic climate change.

An interview with Jørgen Randers, Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School; co-author of Limits to Growth and (with Paul Gilding), The One Degree War Plan, Author of 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, Chelsea Green, NY.

As one of the authors of the original Limits to Growth analysis released in 1972, Jørgen Randers has been thinking about long term sustainability trends and complex systems for a long time.

Now, forty years on from the release of that iconic work, he has completed a new report for the Club of Rome which presents a forecast for the next 40 years. This is laid out in his new book 2052.

An interview with the UK Committee on Climate Change’s Adrian Gault, Chief Economist, and Alex Kazaglis, Senior Policy Analyst.  

Adrian Gault (left) joined the secretariat of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in May 2009, where he is responsible for analytical work looking at UK greenhouse gas emission reduction potential and costs. Prior to joining the CCC secretariat, Adrian has substantial experience of energy and environmental issues – as an economist in Department for Transport, the Energy Group at DTI(now part of DECC) and in the Treasury tax team.

An interview with Jean-Philippe Denruyter, Manager, Global Renewable Energy Policy, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Jean-Philippe Denruyter is manager of Global Renewable Energy Policy at the conservation organization WWF. In this position he leads WWF’s global renewable energy strategy development and activities. He is a founding member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels and has been president of the European Green Electricity Network (2006–2008). He played a key role in developing WWF’s The Energy Report: 100% Renewable Energy by 2050, released in 2011.