Green thoughts from great minds
Scientists, economists, university lecturers and journalists. We have involved numerous experts so that they can reflect – and advance the debate – on the issues of climate change and the energy transition.
Andrea Barbabella
Andrea Bertaglio
Michael Braungart
Enrico Giovannini
Co-founder and current spokesperson of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS, its acronym in Italian), Giovannini was Chief Statistician of the OECD from 2001 to 2009 and President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics from 2009 to 2013. Between April 2013 and February 22, 2014, he served as Minister of Labor and Social Policies in the Italian government under Enrico Letta.
He has been and still is on the Boards of numerous foundations and national and international organizations. These include the International Labour Organization’s Global Commission on the Future of Work, the Independent Commission for Sustainable Equality (ICSE), the International Expert Working Group and the Canadian Index of Wellbeing, tasked with defining indicators of societal wellbeing.
In April 2020, he was appointed a member of the Committee of Economic and Social Experts established by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers to address “phase 2” of the Covid-19 emergency.
Chris Goodall
Joanna Haigh
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Institute of Physics, the City & Guilds and the Royal Meteorological Society and an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College Oxford. She was awarded the Institute of Physics Charles Chree Medal and Prize 2004, the Royal Meteorological Society Adrian Gill Prize 2010 and appointed CBE in the 2013 New Years Honours.
Louisa Parks
Her research covers the environment and local communities and how citizens can influence politics and international policy independently from the ballot box, both through targeted campaigns and activism. She published numerous academic papers and two books: Benefit-sharing in Environmental Governance: Local Experiences of a Global Concept, which was published by Routledge this year and which is available in Open Access, and Social Movement Campaigns on EU Policy: in the Corridors and in the Streets, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Emanuele Quaranta
From 2014 to 2019, he worked as a researcher at the Politecnico di Torino, where he completed a research doctorate that won the prize for best Italian thesis in water engineering in 2017. His research relates to hydroelectric power, the water-energy nexus and nature-based solutions. He also collaborates with the International Energy Agency and SINTEF Energy Research on the interaction between hydroelectric energy and fish.
Quaranta is scientific referee for a variety of international science journals and conferences and a science writer for the publications of various international associations and scientific societies, including the International Hydropower Association, Prescouter, Qual Energia and Solar Power World. He is also the curator of a special edition of the international journal Sustainability MDPI on the future of hydroelectricity.
Thauan Santos
Kadri Simson
Mathis Wackernagel
Mathis has worked on sustainability with governments, corporations and international NGOs on six continents and has lectured at more than a hundred universities. He previously served as director of the Sustainability Program at Redefining Progress in Oakland, California, and ran the Centro de Estudios para la Sustentabilidad at Anáhuac University in Xalapa, Mexico. Mathis has authored and contributed to more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, numerous articles, reports and various books on sustainability.
Mathis’ awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award, the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, 2006 WWF Award for Conservation Merit and 2005 Herman Daly Award of the U.S. Society for Ecological Economics. He was also selected as number 19 on the (En)Rich list identifying the 100 top inspirational individuals whose contributions enrich paths to sustainable futures (www.enrichlist.org).