From Willful Delusion to action on climate change A fair response to Paris - Prof Kevin Anderson

Professor Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester, presents the opening keynote at Sustainable Earth 2021: Climate Emergency - the race to net zero carbon.

Kevin holds a joint chair between the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester, the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), and the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation at the University of Bergen (Norway). He has previously held the role of Zennström professor of climate change leadership at Uppsala and director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

Kevin has contributed to the development of Paris-compliant carbon budgets for Swedish Län and Kommuner and his analysis contributed to the UK’s Climate Change Act and subsequent national carbon budgets. Kevin is currently providing an evidence base to the European Commission’s development of EU carbon budgets.