Making Sense of Climate Change: the Limits of Education

This was the final talk in the Smith School’s ‘Gorillas in our Midst’ Seminar Series, in Michaelmas Term 2011; and was given by Mike Peirce (University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership).

Mike Peirce Presentation Slides

Speaker Biography: Mike is Director of Strategy and Communications at CPSL. In his six years at CPSL, he has led a number of CPSL’s executive education programmes, including the World Bank Sustainable Development Leadership Programme for senior Bank staff, and the new Sustainability Leadership in the Built Environment Programme. He is the Facilitator of the Professional Services Sustainability Initiative, and has led CPSL’s work on Sustainable Water Stewardship with Anglian Water. In May 2009 he directed the St James’s Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium on climate change that concluded with a Memorandum now signed by sixty Nobel Laureates. Mike is involved in a number of other sustainability initiatives, including as a member of the Communications Committee of the Prince of Wales’s Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), and as a Trustee of the development education charity, Think Global. He has worked previously as Chief Operating Officer for the NGO, AccountAbility, and as a strategic consultant for the COBA Group, now a part of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He has a degree in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University and a postgraduate diploma in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.