Fossil Fuels: Their Impact on Climate Change and Air Pollution Tuesday, 16th – Wednesday, 17th February 2021 Participants Titus Alexander FRSA Educator, Author, Change Agent Greg Archer UK Director, Transport and Environment Charlotte Ayoub Co-Founder, TLC Sports Richard Bourne Advisor, The Ramphal Institute Ruth Calderwood Air Quality Manager, City of London Corporation Ekatarina de Rodzianko XR Catalysers Fire Circle Joshua Dean Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles, University of Liverpool Deanna Emeny Claire Farrell Co-founder XR Taryn Ferguson Andrew Griffiths Head of Value Chain Sustainability, Nestlé UK Ltd Neil Grundon Deputy Chairman, Grundon Waste Management Professor Peter Head Ecological Sequestration Trust Professor Sir Stephen Holgate UK High Champion for Air Quality Professor Phil Jones Professorial Fellow, University of East Anglia Bianca Letti Senior Analyst, Climate Change Committee Ulrich Loening Dr Margaret Maclean XR International COP 26 Surinder Marshall Peter Mather President BP Europe Fossil Fuels: Their Impact on Climate Change and Air Pollution 1 Dr Alice McGushin Programme Manager, The Lancet Countdown Gary McKeone Programme Director, St George's House Professor Hugh Montgomery Professor of Intensive Care Medicine, University College London Professor Robert Nicholls University East Anglia Susannah Nicklin, CFA Chair and Non-Executive Director - Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust Russell Norton Caroline Päkel Dr Douglas Parr Chief Scientist and Policy Director Greenpeace UK Professor Chris Rapley, CBE University College London, Department of Earth Sciences Dr Sue Robert Chair of Directors, Bioabundance Community Interest Company Robin Russell-Jones Facilitator of Climate Consultations; Chair Help Rescue the Planet Roc Sanford XR Catalysers and XR Oceanic Rebellion Mr John Sauven CEO Greenpeace UK Dr Emily Shuckburgh Director of Cambridge Zero at the University of Cambridge Neale Smither Vice President, Downstream New Markets, BP Shaun Spiers Executive Director Green Alliance Hugo Spowers Chief Engineers and Founder, Riversimple Nick Stoop Founder Pangea Impact Investments Limited Dr Robin Stott Founder UK Health Climate Alliance Penelope Tollitt Urban Planner, Environmental Scientist Matt Toombs Director of Campaigns and Engagement COP26 Nigel Topping High Level Climate Action Champion Professor Tom Wigley School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Prof Philip Woodworth Oceanography Centre Liverpool Fossil Fuels: Their Impact on Climate Change and Air Pollution 2 Participants’ Biographies Titus Alexander FRSA Titus Alexander is a freelance researcher, writer, campaign coach, facilitator and Fellow of the Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics. He has worked with the Global Commons Institute since before CoP1 in Berlin in 1995, and Action for a Global Climate Community for an EU - India initiative. His latest book is Practical Politics: Lessons in Power and Democracy, on teaching democratic politics. He runs an apprenticeship in campaigning and is founder of Democracy Matters, an alliance for learning practical politics. He created the Charter 99 for Global Democracy campaign, Uniting Humanity, a Grundtvig trainer of trainers programme. Publications include Discussing Democracy (2015), Campaigning is OK! (2009), Learning Power (2007), Family Learning (Demos 1997), Citizenship Schools: a practical guide (2001), and Unravelling Global Apartheid: An overview of world politics (Polity 1996). Titus’s latest project is to create an online resource centre for learning and teaching social change. Greg Archer Greg Archer is UK Director of the environmental think tank Transport and Environment. An expert on the environmental impacts of transport his work has influenced the form of many key laws to reduce the environmental impacts of transport over the last 20 years by encouraging clean technologies. He led NGO campaigns including for: car CO2 regulations that stimulate the shift to electric cars; real work vehicle tests that are finally beginning to clean up diesel emissions; and the introduction of sustainability criteria for biofuels. He helped to expose the breadth of the dieselgate scandal leading to reform of vehicle approval systems; worked on the Environment Bill that introduced the system of local air quality management; and recently gave evidence to the Ella Kissi-Debra inquest. A pragmatic environmentalist he is recognised for his detailed grasp of the detail and evidence and forthright views on how to green transport. Charlotte Ayoub Although having qualified in Law, Charlotte Ayoub now runs womens’ activewear brand TLC SPORT alongside her mother, where they provide quality, stylish and durable clothing to their customers at home and abroad. Founded in 1984, TLC has a varied and fascinating journey and with ten years experience in the industry, Charlotte has an extensive grasp of the business; from design and logistics to marketing and fulfilment. After graduating from the Goldman Sachs 10KSB Programme, Charlotte has successfully grown the business, breaking into retailers in the UK & USA, launching on national television, securing designer collaborations and overhauling the brand and website to keep up with the fast paced world e-commerce. Richard Bourne Richard Bourne coordinated a pioneering Commonwealth conference in London for the Ramphal Institute on toxic air pollution in megacities in 2018. Representatives from Dhaka, Delhi, Gauteng (greater Johannesburg) and London ( an honorary megacity ) recommended that it should be followed up by another, to drive a Commonwealth campaign to cut emissions, promote a UN Right to Breathe, and encourage exchange of effective policies. This event will take place on 30-31 March, 2021. Richard is Adviser to the Institute’s Director and Trustees. A former journalist, he has been a Commonwealth activist since 1982. Fossil Fuels: Their Impact on Climate Change and Air Pollution 3 Ruth Calderwood Ruth Calderwood is the Air Quality Manager at the City of London Corporation. She has worked in local authority air quality management for over 20 years and prior to that in ecology, nature conservation and arboriculture. She has supported a number of research projects such as the impact of biomass on urban air quality and real world vehicle emission testing. Ruth is a Trustee of Environmental Protection UK, a national charity that provides expert policy analysis and information on air quality, land quality and noise. Ekatarina de Rodzianko Ekatarina spent most of her career immersed in corporate London, primarily as a media lawyer with an international law firm and with a significant media finance organisation. Her passion for protecting the environment and ecology of our planet, has shifted her focus to concentrate on inspiring business leaders to change. As a Catalyser her aim is to persuade those in power to engage with the climate and ecological emergency and use their influence to reshape our future. She now lives in Devon, wilding a former farm. Dr Joshua F. Dean, FHEA Joshua is a Lecturer in Biogeochemical Cycles at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK. His research is at the intersection of hydrology and elemental biogeochemistry. His work marries isotopes, biogeochemical and hydrological fluxes, and microbial community characterisation to quantify the source, transformation and flow of carbon through the land-freshwater-atmosphere continuum. His current main research focus is methane cycling and the application of radiocarbon as an unconventional tracer in the global carbon cycle. Originally from New Zealand, Joshua enjoys working in many fieldwork locations including the East Siberian Arctic, Northwest Canadian Arctic, the Yucatán Peninsula, southeast Australia, and across the UK and Europe. Joshua received his BSc (Hons) in Geography from Massey University in New Zealand, and his PhD in Hydrogeology from La Trobe University in Australia. Deanna Emeny I am a master’s student in Environment and Development from Kings College London, currently working for Help Rescue The Planet alongside Robin Russell-Jones as a Mayday C4 conference coordinator. The Mayday C4 events are a combination of conferences with concerts in the run up to COP 26. The purpose of these C4 events to generate a social movement to make climate change the key issue of 2021. Fossil Fuels: Their Impact on Climate Change and Air Pollution 4 Clare Farrell Clare Farrell is an active citizen, devoting her creativity, her energy, and occasionally her personal liberty, to fight against climate collapse and the wider environmental crisis. As one of the founders of Extinction Rebellion she helps coordinate a mass movement of people using non-violent civil disobedience. Her work to date has included building and coordinating the creative team that delivered the name, identity, and messaging that the movement set out with in 2018. Since then working across actions teams, some internal governance roles, trainings and now coordinating the media and messaging teams and acting as a spokesperson. Clare has a background in the UK fashion industry, working across the high street, luxury and ethical sectors. She has been educating on fashion, ethics and sustainability for over a decade and has lectured at Central Saint Martins, the Royal College of Art, London College of Communications, and Goldsmiths, among other institution Biography from www.resource-alliance.org Andy Griffiths Andy is Head of Value Chain Sustainability for Nestlé’s UK&I businesses, responsible