Description
Bringing together voices from environmental activism, policy, data and storytelling, this vital panel explores how climate change is understood, experienced and acted upon today.
Jonathon Porritt draws on decades of work in sustainability and climate advocacy, Karen Lloyd reflects on land, justice and ecological struggle through Earthworks and Dr Hannah Ritchie brings a data-led perspective on climate, progress and possibility.
From grassroots action and protest to policy, evidence and lived experience, the panel asks what drives people to act, where power really lies and how we balance urgency with hope in the fight for meaningful change.
About the Authors
Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt is a leading writer and campaigner on sustainable development, having co-founded Forum for the Future and the Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme in 1996. Now focused on intergenerational justice and climate activism, Porritt supports young campaigners and several environmental organisations. Porritt’s latest book, Love, Anger & Betrayal, co-authored with 26 Just Stop Oil campaigners, is a call to action on the climate emergency.
Dr Karen Lloyd
Dr Karen Lloyd is an author, editor and teacher whose work addresses human interactions with landscape and nature. She is a Wainwright Prize longlisted author for her previous book, Abundance: Nature in Recovery (Bloomsbury, 2021) and her first book The Gathering Tide was an author’s pick of the year in the Observer, 2015. Her work has been commissioned internationally and is widely published including in the Guardian, BBC Wildlife, LitHu and Dark Mountain. She is an honorary researcher with the Institute of Science and Environment at the University of Cumbria and was previously senior researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future Places Centre. She is a contributing editor to The Wolf: Culture, Nature and Heritage (Boydell and Brewer, 2023) and editor of North Country: An Anthology of Landscape and Nature (Saraband, 2023) and Curlew Calling Anthology (Numenius Press, 2017).
Professor PB Anand
Professor Anand specialises in environmental economics and public policy, focusing on the urban economy, environment, and sustainability. He has held senior leadership roles at the University of Bradford, including Head of Peace Studies and International Development, Programme Leader for the PG Certificate for Young Professionals of the African Development Bank, and Head of Centre for International Development.
His research includes a British Academy-funded project on infrastructure governance for inclusive, smart, and sustainable cities, UNDP reports for Mongolia and Eritrea, and work on the Capability Approach, which has led to Cambridge University Press publications. He edited the Handbook of BRICS and Emerging Economies for Oxford University Press and guest edited a special issue of Telecommunications Policy on smart cities.
He is a Fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association, Chair of its 2025 Bradford conference, Vice Chair of Calderdale Inter-faith, and a trustee of the Peace Museum.
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