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1 February 2011
Cycling the Next Urban Challenge
Bircham Dyson Bell, London
29 October 2010
Making the most of daylight hours: the implications for Scotland
Report for the Policy Studies Institute
25 September 2010
The Challenge of Climate Change: what role for the legal profession?
Keynote speaker at Annual Conference of UK Environmental Law Association, Cheshunt, Herts.
21 June 2010
Crime and the fear of crime
Speaker at launch of Lighter Later campaign putting clocks forward in summer and winter, Portcullis House, Westminster.
2 November 2009
Catastrophic Climate Change: the ethical implications of inescapable truths
St. Johns College, Cambridge.
31 July 2009
Challenging our assumptions on climate change: what can we realistically do to prevent disaster?
Special lecture Green Economics Institute Annual Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford.
20 March 2009
The Challenge of Climate Change and its Implications for Public Policy
Opening paper at Conference
Vision 2050: a sustainable future for Chester
, Chester City Council.
March 2009
Nuclear power: for and against
Debate with Stephen Tindale, PSI (Policy Studies Institute)
12 November 2008
Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe: the key challenge for urban transport policy
Keynote address (by video),
Sustainable Development Challenges of Transport in Cities of the Developing World
, CODATU X111, International 3-day Conference, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
17 October 2008
Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe: the implications for urban planning
METREX 3-day Conference at City Hall, London on
Climate Change: Urban Change
.
16 October 2008
Preventing Climate Change Catastrophe: time to act on the evidence
Keynote address at the Green Construction Summit,
The Great Carbon Crunch
: a united industry response to climate change in the built environment, Kings Place.
15 October 2008
Why public policy on seeking to match the rising demand for road, rail and air travel must be reversed
Opening paper at the National Transport Conference
Transport Policy in Transition
, Construction Industries/ RTPI/IHT/ATCO/TPS, London.
30 June 2008
Carbon-offsetting: enabling device or conscience opiate
Meeting on Carbon Reduction and Health jointly organised by BMJ, FPH, and RCP& CH.
24 June 2008
Healthy environments for children
Panelist at this seminar held at the Smith Institute.
4 June 2008
Debate on carbon offsetting
Debate in Brussels as part of European Green Week with Tanguy de Monceau, managing co-founder of CO2logic, a firm helping companies go 'carbon-neutral'.
2 June 2008
Carbon currency
Live one-hour interview on National Public Radio on the subject of carbon currency, broadcast in Austin, Texas.
5 March 2008
The US paperback edition of
How We Can Save the Planet: Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe
(with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan) was published by Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Press. ISBN 13: 978-0-312-35206-6.
28 February 2008
BBC Radio 4's PM and on BBC 24
Inteviews on the dangers of exaggerating the environmental benefits of discouraging the use of plastic bags.