Events

The Centre for Energy Ethics – University of St Andrews and Greener Vision are partnering to present an exhibition of The Tabula Project and a series of discussions to explore innovative approaches to addressing anthropogenic climate change.  The programme focuses on one of the most urgent profound challenges facing humanity today.  As energy systems change,…

The Centre for Energy Ethics – University of St Andrews and Greener Vision are partnering on a series of online roundtable discussions to explore new approaches to tackling anthropogenic climate change.   Our world is on fire.  2024 was the hottest year on record with the global average temperature reaching 1.55°C above the pre-industrial average.[i]  …

Our thinking needs to evolve if we are to rise to the scale of the climate crisis.  A series of Socratic dialogues at St Andrews Botanic Garden will explore how we might embrace holistic thinking and develop a response to the climate crisis that creates unity rather than division. The Tabula Project: A Blueprint for…

Greener Vision is holding a series of discussions to explore how to develop a response to the climate crisis commensurate to the scale of challenge. ‘The Pillars of Unity’ series will build on the key conclusions from Greener Vision: Pathways to Net Zero and explore how we might embrace more holistic thinking and develop an…

Chair: Professor Greg Marsden, Chair of Greener Transport Council Professor Jillian Anable, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds and Greener Transport Council Rupert Read, Majority Project Professor Rebecca Willis, Lancaster University In 2019, Extinction Rebellion instigated a new national conversation about the climate emergency. Their high-profile public protests, alongside movements such as School Strikes…

Our world is fragmented, disordered and chaotic.  We are out of alignment with ourselves and the environment on which we depend.  Anthropogenic climate change has been allowed to grow like a cancer with the potential to destroy the world as we know it.  This is where our best thinking has got us.  Greener Vision is…

The roundtable discussion Pathways to Net Zero – Delivering Net Zero Road Transport was held on 6th June 2023. This session focused on what is now the top priority for net zero: delivery.  Whilst the UK has some good strategies in place, it is vital now to get the right policies in place to enable the…

The Future We Want chaired by Professor Jillian Anable, Chair in Transport and Energy, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds, focused on how we can create an inspiring greener vision for the future, which will help build the mandate for change and tough decisions for the long term. In opening the discussion, the Chair…

Hasta La Vista, Carbon! chaired by Stephen Glaister CBE, Emeritus Professor of Transport and Infrastructure at Imperial College London and Associate of the London School of Economics focused on how we can develop solutions to the cost of living crisis that will accelerate the transition to net zero and enhance our energy security. In closing…

Building on the success of the Pathways to Net Zero roundtable series in March 2022, Trueform kindly sponsored two further roundtable discussions in October 2022.  These events took the discussion to the next stage and sought to identify solutions to deliver emissions reductions at the scale and pace needed. Hasta La Vista, Carbon! chaired by…

The key conclusion of the Greener Transport Council’s Manifesto for Decarbonising Transport was that clean technologies will not be enough to reach our net zero targets for transport, we also need to reduce the volume of traffic on our roads.  The focus of the Pathways to Net Zero programme is to develop proposals for how…

This was the third event in our series on Rising to the Challenge: What will it take to decarbonise transport? which took place on Monday 13 September. Delegates heard from: Hilary Chipping, Chief Executive, South East Midlands LEP Claire Haigh, Chief Executive, Greener Transport Solutions Jamie Driscoll, Mayor of North of Tyne Victoria Hills, Chief…