Who is jeremy leggett

He convened the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security, a pan-industry group warning of a systemic oil-depletion risk to economies , which evolved into the Transatlantic Energy Security Dialogue , co-convened with Lt Col.

Daniel Davis US Army. He served on the New Energy Architecture Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum - , a group which among other things works on "black swans" in energy markets.

He was a non—executive director of New Energies Invest AG, a private equity fund investing in renewable energy Jeremy Leggett, Hillary Laureate. Email Address. These days I am founder and exec director of Bunloit Rewilding Ltd, a start-up enhancing carbon, growing biodiversity and accelerating the rural green new deal on Scottish estates two at present.

I continue to chronicle that transition, and its intersection with tech, on this website. My other books are The Carbon War , an eye-witness account of the climate negotiations in the s; Half Gone , a holistic critique of the oil industry; The Solar Century , a vision of the solar revolution; and The Energy of Nations I have won a few awards along the way.

I was the first winner of the first Hillary Laureate for International Leadership in Climate Change for general work on climate change, won a Gothenburg Prize for my solar work, and was the first non-Dutch winner of a Royal Dutch Honorary Sustainability Award , a particular thrill as you can imagine, given how many Dutch friends and colleagues I have. In the first of my three careers, I went straight from a D.

Phil in earth science at Oxford to the faculty at the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College — , teaching youthful cannon fodder for the extractive industries and researching earth history as preserved in strata including shale deposits, funded among others by BP and Shell. In this phase I became extremely worried by the course of the nuclear arms race, and set up the Verification Technology Information Centre VERTIC , a technical think tank of people drawn from the fields of science, the military and diplomacy, aiming to show how arms control treaties could be verified — present day.

Jeremy Leggett: Many within the fossil fuel industry are sounding alarms. Society ignores such warnings — and listens to potential bubble-backers like Monbiot — at its peril. Jeremy Leggett asks why the cleantech revolution is proving more troublesome than the digital and internet revolutions. Jeremy Leggett: Revelations that the Saudis have overstated their oil reserves are a timely reminder of the huge threat to the global economy.

Jeremy Leggett accuses 'elements' within traditional energy companies of declaring war on renewables. After Paris Osborne is sabotaging the green energy we need to hit Paris targets. Lowering the global warming ceiling means the world can burn only a fraction of existing fossil fuel reserves. But the chancellor is still supporting oil and gas. Published: 16 Dec Economics blog Business should be backing renewables — fossil fuels don't make economic sense.

George Osborne needs to stop pushing 20th-century fuels as the solution for 21st-century energy problems. Published: 6 Oct Why I pledged to give my degree back if Oxford voted against fossil fuel divestment. Jeremy Legget: Oxford University is afraid of making what is a simple moral choice.

It fears offending the energy companies that fills its coffers directly or indirectly. Published: 16 Mar Economics blog UK energy dependence — five hidden costs expose truth about fracking. The shale boom is a bubble waiting to burst as the economics of extraction falter and the trickle of bad environmental news turns into a flood. Published: 18 Aug Technology and innovation Why the UK lags behind in commercial solar installation.