The Climate Emergency: The Role of Non-Violent Direct Action - Jonathon Porritt

The UK's leading forum for international politics and global issues, founded in 1980. The Climate Emergency: The Role of Non-Violent Direct Action - Founder, Forum for the Future and former Chancellor Keele University The climate crisis deepens with terrifying predictability. Meanwhile, the courageous young campaigners who seek to wake us up to the truth of this, through peaceful direct action, are silenced and stuck in prison. Theirs is a generation systematically betrayed by politicians. And by all of us who allow this to continue, on our watch, year after year. Jonathon Porritt spent a year working with twenty-six Just Stop Oil campaigners to co-create a book Love, Anger & Betrayal, driven by a fierce commitment to intergenerational justice. In 1996, he co-founded Forum for the Future, a leading international sustainable development charity, working with business and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future. He was also a co-founder of the Prince of Wales’s Business and Sustainability Programme. Jonathon provided strategic advice to leading UK and international companies to deepen their understanding of today’s converging environmental and climate crises. Since stepping down from Forum for the Future in May 2023, Jonathon has “returned to his campaigning roots”, supporting the Green Party and radical climate campaigns such as Just Stop Oil and Defend our Juries. For more than fifty years, Jonathon Porritt has been campaigning for the environment and social justice, while simultaneously advising governments, businesses and NGOs. The author of many highly respected books, he still believes that it is ‘not too late’ to avoid climate breakdown. He is now much more focused on intergenerational justice, supporting young people in their activities around sustainable development issues as they face a future defined by the twin crises of the Climate and Nature.