ECO Keynote - From Net Zero to Climate Precarity: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown

The ECO Network will host its first Workshop on 13/14 May 2024. As part of the Workshop, we have invited Laurie Parsons to deliver a Keynote talk. He will speak on:

From Net Zero to Climate Precarity: How Rich Countries Export Climate Breakdown

Laurie Parsons is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Secretary of the Climate Change Research Group of the UK’s Royal Geographical Society. As a committed scholar-activist, Laurie engages extensively with policymakers and journalists, aiming to expose and regulate the issues he explores in his work. His work has underpinned worldwide exclusive reporting by the BBC, Politico, Mongabay and Vice World News, amongst others.

He is the author of three books on climate change: Going Nowhere Fast (Oxford University Press, 2020), Climate Change in the Global Workplace (Routledge, 2021), and Carbon Colonialism (Manchester University Press, 2023).
A researcher of the global South – and in particular Cambodia – since 2008, Laurie has won numerous accolades for his writing and research, including the prestigious Times Higher Education Research Project of the Year award for his project Blood Bricks in 2021. His latest book Carbon Colonialism was awarded the Association of American Publishers PROSE prize for Economics in 2024.