CLIMATE
CHANGE
RESEARCH
GROUP

Speakers

• Eliot Whittington, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Executive Director, Chief Systems Change Officer; Director of CISL’s Corporate Leaders Groups;

• Anna Åberg, Research Fellow, Environment and Society Centre, Chatham House; her work focuses on international climate politics, the UN climate negotiations, and climate finance.

• Dr Angus McNelly, King’s College London interdisciplinary scholar interested in the politics of transformative change and twenty-first century capitalism. 

• Dr Aline Carrara is a Brazilian environmental social scientist and practitioner who has worked on issues connected to Indigenous territorial sovereignty, deforestation, infrastructure and commodity supply chains, in tropical forest regions (Amazonia, Indonesia) and the Pacific for the past two decades. 

• Dr Stephen Cornelius is the Deputy Global Leader and Innovation Lead of Climate and Energy at WWF. Cornelius joined WWF as WWF-UK’s Chief Adviser on Climate Change in 2015 and has worked at the interface of science and policy. 

Chaired by Laurie Parsons

Speakers

• Professor Pierre Failler, Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business and Law and Director of the Centre for Blue Governance, University of Portsmouth. 

• Dr Helen Jay, Senior National Consultant - Coast, National Trust. 

• Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble, Biodiversity Net Gain Strategic Lead, Southern Water. 

• Lucy Sheffield, Team Leader / Subject Matter Expert – Environmental Improvements & Habitat Restoration, Coastal Partners.

Chaired by Dr. Sally Brown, Policy Rep CCRG

Speakers

• Professor Sarah Birch FRSE, FBA, Professor of Political Science at King's College London: a leading expert in environmental politics and electoral integrity.

• Dr Berhard Forchtner, Associate Professor at the University of Leicester, who has written extensively on climate change, environment and the far right.

• Richard Hames and Alex Roberts, journalists and authors of The Rise of Ecofascism and hosts of the 12 Rules for What? podcast.

• Jonathan Watts The Guardian’s Global Environment Editor – live from the Amazon.

Chaired by Dr. Laurie Parsons, Chair CCRG

Speakers

• Michael B. Gerrard, Columbia University. Environmental Lawyer

• Kate Cook, Barrister. Specialist in Environmental law, public international law, EU and Human Rights law.  

• Monica Feria-Tinta, Barrister. Specialist in Public International Law and International Arbitration. Leading practitioner in Public International Law, Energy, Environment, International Human Rights Law.

• Adam Weiss, Chief Programmes and Impact Officer for ClientEarth. Head of Oceans Programme at ClientEarth.  

Chaired by Ilma Bogdan, Policy Rep CCRG

Speakers

• Bob Ward: Policy and Communications Director, The Grantham Institute, London School of Economics

• Dr Julia Blocher: Project lead - HABITABLE, the EU’s largest ever project linking climate change and migration

• Longgena Ginting: Indonesia Country Director, Purpose, an NGO dedicated to social impact on climate change, global poverty and voting rights

• Nivedita Bansal: Climate Leader, Women’s Climate Collective

• Flora Pereira: Chief Engagement and Education Officer, The Pulitzer Centre.

Chaired by Laurie Parsons, Reader at Royal Holloway Univ of London and Chair, Climate Change Research Group Steering Committee

Speakers

• The Rt. Hon. The Lord Deben

• Kerry McCarthy, Labour MP for Bristol East and Shadow Minister for Climate Change

• Professor Carly McLachlan, Professor of Climate and Energy Policy, and Director of Tyndall Manchester

• Dr Donal Brown, Director of UK Programmes, Ashden
  
  

Chaired by Bob Ward, Chair of the London Climate Change Partnership and Director of Policy and Communications at LSE Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment