Why is 2015 the year for sustainable development? Hear Jonathon Porritt talk about what we can come to expect in 2015 and why after 40 years in the world of sustainable development he is more confident and hopeful for the prospects of human kind than he has ever been before.
(From The WWF-UK Living Planet Centre, Woking for TEDxWoking, guest-curated by Sam Marshall and Kate Mair.)
Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. Established in 1996, Forum for the Future is now the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. The Forum has a growing presence in the United States, and is doing more and more work in India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
In addition, he is co-founder of The Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme, a Non-Executive Director of Willmott Dixon Holdings, a Trustee of Ashden, and a Director of Collectively (an online platform celebrating sustainable innovation).
He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth, co-chair of the Green Party and as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission until 2009, he spent nine years providing high-level advice to Government Ministers.
Jonathon was installed as the Chancellor of Keele University in February 2012 and he is also Visiting Professor at Loughborough University.
He is the author of ‘Capitalism As If The World Matters’, ‘Globalism & Regionalism’ and ‘Living Within Our Means’. His latest book, ‘The World We Made’, about how we get to be living in a sustainable world in 2050, was published in October 2013.
Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.
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