Climate Change

Climate change is happening and is the single biggest issue of our times. It threatens everything that we take for granted. It is trans-national, knowing no boundaries and affecting everyone, no matter your race, creed, religion, gender or nationality. Yet, for that very reason, it brings opportunities and I believe it has the potential to change the world for the better.

We have a choice in our response to climate change. Resist it, hunker down in a corner and try to hold on to our current ways. Or adapt, respond, innovate. Use it to find new ways of doing things, in peaceful ways that unite and draw on the power of humanity and community.

And that’s what I’m interested in – how to we take the disturbance to our global system that is climate change and use it to change our structure, our relationships. Some of the questions I’m interested in tackling are:

  • How can climate change challenge concepts of power and governance? Can it help move from centralised, Cartesian, controlling models of governance to more systemic, organic models?
  • How can climate change change the way that business works? How organisations interact with their employees, with their customers,  suppliers, competition and wider society?
  • How can climate change help resolve conflict and build peace?
  • How can all of this be facilitated by technology and cultural innovations like the internet?

My background in climate change is broad, beginning with engineering (my Masters was an emissions analysis of the Malaysian energy sector), through to developing government policy on emissions trading, climate change and aviation; and consultancy, where I worked on mitigation policy and the social dimensions of climate change, including the Commission’s review of the EU ETS and an assessment of UK climate policy for the Office of Climate Change. I’ve also been involved in wider climate change work outside of the public sector, including Hewlett Packard’s recent Climate Futures work.

I have experience of advocacy at a government and EU level and multi-stakeholder dialogues with diverse groups as part of an inclusive and participatory approach to policy development.

If you’re interested in exploring these questions too, then get in touch using dan@dkcy.com.