You can also watch the event on YouTube or listen to the podcast from our previous event on racism in the environment sector here.

If you want to learn more about Green Alliance’s work on green jobs, read our report on how the government can unlock thousands of green jobs across many regions of the UK. You can also explore Public First research, commissioned by Green Alliance, into what people think about green jobs.

The event was chaired by Ruth Chambers, senior parliamentary affairs associate at Greener UK. Joining future generational commissioner for Wales Sophie Howe, in discussion were Caroline Lucas MP and climate justice activist Daze Aghaji. 

Libby Peake is head of resource policy at Green Alliance. She is lead author of our report Targeting success, which highlights the need for clear and ambitious goals to reduce resource use. Read the report.

Kate Raworth is an economist and author of Doughnut economics, which proposes a ground-breaking new approach to the economy. She also co-founded the Doughnut Economics Action Lab and teaches at Oxford University. 

Caterina Brandmayr is head of climate policy at Green Alliance.

Cait Hewitt is the deputy director at the Aviation Environment Federation (AEF), a not-for-profit campaigning organisation that focuses on the environmental impact of aviation. 

Sam Alvis is head of green renewal at Green Alliance and a former senior adviser at the Tony Blair Institute. 

Anthony Browne is the MP for South Cambridgeshire and the chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Environment. He is also a former journalist and director of the think tank Policy Exchange. 

On they day they spoke, Green Alliance launched the latest update of the Net zero policy tracker, which is monitoring the government’s progress on cutting carbon emissions.  

Ruth Chambers joined the Greener UK unit as senior parliamentary affairs associate leading the coalition's work on the Environment Bill. 

Dame Glenys Stacey is the chair of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) in the UK. 

Philippa Borrowman is a policy adviser at Green Alliance working in our Low Carbon Future theme.

Andrea Lee is the campaigns and policy manager at ClientEarth and coordinates the national Healthy Air Campaign.

Sam Alvis is the head of the green renewal project at Green Alliance and former senior adviser at the Tony Blair Institute. 

Dimitri Zenghelis is a special adviser at the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge, and co-founder of the Wealth Economy project. He is also a senior fellow at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics. Dimitri was head of the Stern Review team and head of economic forecasting at the Treasury.