Ep110: Adair Turner "Lord of the Net Zero Transition"
Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change
English - December 21, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 74 MBEntrepreneurship Business Technology green climate action clean energy sustainability climate change energy renewable energy climate environment technology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell, is Chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of major companies, investors and experts identifying pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C by 2040.
From 2008-2013, Lord Turner chaired the UK’s Financial Services Authority. He was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000); Chairman of the UK Pensions Commission (2003-2006); and was the first Chairman of the UK Climate Change Committee (2008-2012). From 1982-1995 Lord Turner worked at McKinsey, and was Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe from 2000-2006.
Lord Turner authored Between Debt and the Devil (Princeton: 2015), and Economics after the Crisis (MIT: 2012). He became a cross-bench member of the House of Lords in 2006, and holds a degree in History and Economics from the University of Cambridge.
The Energy Transition Commission
https://www.energy-transitions.org/
Download the Commission's latest report, Degree of Urgency: Accelerating Actions to Keep 1.5°C on the Table
Degree of Urgency: Accelerating Actions to Keep 1.5°C on the Table