2010 Annual Lecture; Jonathon Porritt CBE

7TH ANNUAL LECTURE

The Lunar Society’s 7th Annual Lecture was given by Jonathon Porritt CBE on the 23rd March 2010. Founder Director of Forum for the Future, he is also an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. He was formerly Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission (2000-2009) and Director of Friends of the Earth. He is also a member of the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency; Co-Director of the Prince of Wales’ Business and Environment Programme; a non-Executive Director of Wessex Water; and a Trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.

His lecture covered sustainable development, climate change and renewable energy. To have any chance of achieving the carbon reduction targets set, Jonathon believes we need both "full-on decoupling" (in other words, creating long-term economic value with a massively reduced throughput of energy and raw materials), and an economy based on well being not growth. The Lecture was held at Thinktank, Birmingham.

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Kindly sponsored by Thinktank, Birmingham City Council, Sustainability West Midlands and RegenWM

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