I am delighted to announce that I have been invited to participate as a Mentor in the Lead for Sustainability Mentorship Programme 2025/2026, organised by the WEF Global Shapers. Lead for Sustainability is a mentorship programme which encourages students to explore careers in different sectors within the sustainability and climate change realm. The LFS Program...
It was an interesting and reflective couple of days at the @ISLC2025 conference in St Andrews. Some reflections on the experience; The welcome renaissance of character in leadership studies continues. Following the excellent work of Mary Crossan, the Oxford Character project The Oxford Character Project | Welcome to the Oxford Character Project is now focusing...
The disturbing responses from some on the left to the murder of Charlie Kirk illustrate the dangers of left-wing authoritarianism (LWA). While right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) has long been recognised for its emphasis on hierarchy, obedience, and exclusion, LWA reflects a different content: moral absolutism, intolerance for dissent, and a drive for ideological purity. The lack...
The recent approval of Woodside’s North West gas shelf development to 2070 provides an exemplary test for climate governance given that the lifetime emissions of this project are estimated at between 4 and 4.4 billion tonnes CO2 equivalent. Woodside is one of Australia’s carbon majors and is covered under a number of compliance mechanisms including ...
I am delighted to announce that I have been elected as a member of the General Assembly at Greenpeace Australia Pacific. This is an organisation whose courage and integrity I have admired and supported for decades and I am grateful for the opportunity to make a contribution to their governance.
The ILA podcast I recorded with Dr Scott Allen is now live at https://open.spotify.com/episode/0hCWdZaDMEwOsG0nRrC8pr?si=fe4216afa2494bba We discussed climate change leadership in general and the way in which conventional leadership is being repurposed for the age of sustainability. We also discussed Rae André, Ph.D.’s work on the criticality of a scientific understanding in corporate climate change governance. This included a...
Great to see climate change leadership, sustainability and climate governance being discussed at the excellent ISLC conference in Birmingham. Thanks to Brad Jackson, Joanna Stanberry, Sasha Maher, Professor Steve Kempster and many others for extending this essential conversation.
For those interested in climate change mitigation and the role of business in this, there are two recent critical publications to review. The 2024 State of the Climate Report is devastating. Despite 30yrs of COP’s, ESG, decarbonization and corporate commitments to sustainability, graph after graph depicts the confirmation of an unfolding and irreversible climate disaster....
Has ESG been effective in bringing about meaningful climate change mitigation. The latest CISL report argues that organisation have been ineffective in bringing about an increase in corporate sustainability from within and we now need greater reliance on policy and regulatory change
