Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007 and Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute, joins Michael Liebreich for the first episode of Season 3.   Tony Blair was the UK Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007 and is now the Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute, a not-for-profit organisation established in 2016 with staff of 200 spread over more than 20 countries. The Institute’s m...

Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister in the Spanish government and the Minister for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, is joining us this week on Cleaning Up. She has played a key role in Spain’s low-carbon transition and is a vocal advocate of a green COVID-19 recovery.   Bio   Since 2018 Teresa Ribera is a Deputy Prime Minister in the Spanish Government and the Minister for the...

Further reading: Official bio https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.skea IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/   EEA COVID Debate No. 7 - COVID-19 and climate change (December 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watchv=SuXQdmjlmGA&list=PL1\_QSyumTz7Am38J5tXamPEWUhb5szB3Z&index=7 Jim interviewed by BBC for ‘Climate change: Technology no silver bullet, experts tell PM’ (O...

Further reading: Official Bio   https://ciff.org/team/kate-hampton/   World Bank Live Featured Speaker: Kate Hampton   https://live.worldbank.org/experts/kate-hampton   The Children's Investment Fund Foundation   https://ciff.org/   Building Forward for an African Recovery (March 2021)   https://www.uneca.org/stories/eca%27s-building-forward-for-an-african-green-recovery-outlines-bolder-intra-afri...

Further reading: Official Bio   https://be.linkedin.com/in/kristian-ruby-143685   Europe’s vehicle fleets to boast 10.5m EVs by 2030 (February, 2021)   https://www.energylivenews.com/2021/02/03/europes-vehicle-fleets-to-boast-10-5m-evs-by-2030/   ‘Not fit for purpose’: Europe’s distribution grids ‘need up to €425bn of investment to enable energy transition’ (January, 2021)   https://www.rechargene...

Today is International Women’s Day. We want to take the time to highlight some of the incredible women who are leading the world’s pivot to net-zero. From politics to finance and diplomacy, these women are vital to climate action on an international level. Each episode is available in full at www.cleaningup.live Name of each episode with their link Episode 2: Rachel Kyte 'Investing in Climate Lead...

Further reading: Climate change: COP26 head must be made full-time role to tackle global emergency, Amber Rudd says (December, 2020) https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-cop26-head-must-be-made-full-time-role-to-tackle-global-emergency-amber-rudd-says-12156315   Amber Rudd: ‘The prime minister is clearly more comfortable with men’ (July, 2020) https://www.ft.com/content/fce1e522-a82a-42e2-bf7...

Links Octopus Energy https://octopus.energy/ Energy needed a digital revolution – and we are it (January 2021) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/02/energy-needed-a-digital-revolution-and-we-are-it Octopus Energy is the Which? “Recommended Provider” for a record fourth year in a row (January 2021) https://www.techradar.com/sg/news/octopus-energy-is-the-which-recommended-provider-for-a-r...

Further reading: Government bio https://www.gov.uk/government/people/emma-howard-boyd Environment Agency website https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/environment-agency Encouraging locally-led climate change adaptation (January 2021) https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/encouraging-locally-led-climate-change-adaptation Storm Christoph (January 2021) https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gal...

Links World Business Council for Sustainable Development https://www.wbcsd.org/   COP26 https://ukcop26.org/   The Green 30 for 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-green-30/#:~:text=The%20pioneers%2C%20leaders%2C%20and%20ideas,to%20solve%20the%20climate%20crisis.&text=The%20climate%20crisis%20seems%20to,floods%20inundate%20our%20news%20feeds .  Royal Geographic Society https://www.rgs.org...

Further reading: Official bio   https://physics.stanford.edu/people/steven-chu   US Government Biography   https://www.energy.gov/contributors/dr-steven-chu   AAAS   https://www.aaas.org/   Nobel Prize   https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1997/chu/facts/   National Academy of Sciences   http://www.nasonline.org/   The American Philosophical Society   https://www.amphilsoc.org/   SunShot Ini...

Further reading: Official Bio: https://www.iea.org/authors/dr-fatih-birol Official Website: https://www.iea.org/ Sustainable Recovery Plan (June 2020) https://www.iea.org/reports/sustainable-recovery 5 reasons we should be optimistic about the world’s clean energy future (September 2020) https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/covid-19-green-energy-solar-wind-electric/ We must act now to stop the C...

Further reading: Official Bio  https://www.carbonlimitingtechnologies.com/our-people/  Beverley’s LinkedIn profile  https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverley-gower-jones-fei-a800032 Clean Growth Fund   https://www.cleangrowthfund.com/ Carbon Limiting Technologies   https://www.carbonlimitingtechnologies.com/ Clean Growth Fund backs flexible energy ‘auction house’ Piclo (December 2020)   https://www.the...

Official Bio https://members.parliament.uk/member/4235/contact Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryony\_Worthington,\_Baroness\_Worthington  Ember  https://ember-climate.org/  Why we really do need nuclear power (June 2015) https://theecologist.org/2015/jun/09/why-we-really-do-need-nuclear-power 100 UK Leading Environmentalists (Who Happen To Be Women) (November 2020) https://www.for...

Further reading:  Official Website:  https://www.james-cameron.co.uk/ The Precautionary Principle: A Fundamental Principle of Law and Policy for the Protection of the Global Environment (1991) https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol14/iss1/2/ Carbon Disclosure Project  https://www.cdp.net/en Pollination  https://pollinationgroup.com/ ODI https://www.odi.org/  London Sustainable Development Commi...

Further reading: Official Bio:   http://www.robinchase.org/   Peers Incorporated Book (2015) http://www.peersincorporated.com/what-we-do   Tucows https://www.tucows.com/   World Resources Institute https://www.wri.org/   What's the golden age to become an entrepreneur? (1st of Nov 2020) https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2020/11/01/golden-age-entrepreneur   Q&A with Robin Chase (Oct 2019) https:/...

Further reading: Official Bio https://gouvernement.lu/dam-assets/documents/ministres/cv/2019/en/Turmes-EN-Oct2019.pdf Energy Transformation - An Opportunity for Europe (Claude Turme’s book) https://www.libeurop.eu/shop/product/9781785902574-energy-transformation-an-opportunity-for-europe-636012 European Forum for Renewable Energy Sources http://www.eufores.org/ The EU’s state aid regime is upside...

Further reading: Official Bio https://www.aspeninstitute.org/our-people/richenda-van-leeuwen/         UNDP launches global call to action encouraging nature-based solutions for sustainable development (23rd Sep 2020) https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2020/undp-launches-global-call-to-action-encouraging-nature-based-sol.html Centre for Alternative Technology https://www.cat...

Further reading: Official Bio: https://z.co.nz/about-z/who-is-z-energy/our-leadership-team/       Bosses in Lockdown: Z Energy’s Mike Bennetts (Wednesday 8th of April 2020) (radio) CEO of Z Energy Mike Bennetts joined Heather du Plessis-Allan to discuss how he's faring at home, and how the lockdown is impacting Z's business. https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/...

Further reading:  Official Bio  http://www.dblpartners.vc/people/nancy-pfund/ Audio feature: smart finance for a sustainable food system (September 24th 2020) https://www.ft.com/content/ac7e52f5-245c-44b9-ba98-3aee3d899dd9   The Impact 50 list (September 8th 2020) https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbeswealthteam/2020/09/08/impact-50-investors-seeking-profit-and-pushing-for-change-diversified/#5ba25ff...

Further reading Official Bio https://www.nti.org/about/leadership-and-staff/ernest-moniz/    Energy Futures Initiative www.energyfuturesinitiative.org Report calls on California to lead on carbon capture for deep decarbonization (22nd October 2020) https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/latest-news-headlines/report-calls-on-california-to-lead-on-carbon-capture-for-deep-decarb...

Further reading: Dr Yumkella’s Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandeh\_Yumkella   Sustainable Energy for All https://www.seforall.org/   UNIDO https://www.unido.org/   Rio+20 https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/rio20   Death by Dirty Cooking https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/clean-cooking-solutions-household-air-pollution-africa-by-kandeh-k-yumkella-2019-11 Energy, Emplo...

Further reading: Auke’s profile on the  Eindhoven University of Technology’s  website https://research.tue.nl/en/persons/auke-e-hoekstra Auke’s bio & personal motivation – NEON research project https://neonresearch.nl/academics/auke-hoekstra/ Auke’s Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/aukehoekstra/ Comparing the lifetime green house gas emissions of electric cars with the emissions of cars using...