Global Governance Society End of Year Event: Reasons to be cheerful about climate governance!

The past few years have given us many reasons to be pessimistic, including the rise of right-wing populism, US retreat from key international institutions, the political uncertainties and divisions caused by Brexit, and, of course, a rapidly closing window of opportunity to avoid catastrophic climate change. Nevertheless, there are reasons to look beyond the ‘doom and gloom’! And this year's Global Governance & Ethics Society End of Year Event will be focusing on the reasons to be cheerful about climate governance.

This year we shall be joined by our keynote speaker Dr Thomas Hale whose work has focused on environmental governance and finding ways through gridlock. We will also be joined by the Research Director of InfluenceMap, Thomas O’Neill, whose work strives to remove barriers to climate policy and action, with a focus on corporate lobbying and finance. Finally, we shall be joined by Adrienne Buller, a former GGE student who leads on the Finance Project at InfluenceMap and is the Director of Policy for Labour for a Green New Deal, where she works on developing a radical climate policy agenda and organising at the grassroots level.

We welcome you to join us for this year’s Global Governance Ethics Society End of Year Event and reasons to be cheerful!