Environmental Campaigns: Past and Present

Environmental Campaigns: Past and Present

Sunday 4 May 2025, 3 - 4pm

About the event

Dr Toby Butler, Historian, Tom Burke, Director of Third Generation Environmentalism, Fiona Harvey, Journalist and Fatima Ibrahim, Director of Green New Deal Rising, join us for a dive into the history of environmental activism.

About the Speakers

Dr Toby Butler is a public historian with a wide-ranging skill set developed in higher education, the third sector and the media industry. He has devised collaborative oral history projects in India, the USA, Wales and England. Currently he is Reader in Geography at Royal Holloway University where he is a leading a project on the Oral History of the Environmental Movement in the UK from 1970-2020 in partnership with National Life Stories at the British Library.

Tom Burke is Co-Founder and Director, Third Generation Environmentalism, and an Honorary Professor at Imperial and University College, London. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He was Environmental Policy Advisor to Rio Tinto plc (part time) 1996 - 2016 and served as Senior Advisor to the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change from 2006 -12. He was formerly Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and a member of the Executive Committee of the European Environmental Bureau 1988 - 91. He was the Secretary-General of the Bergen 1990 Environment NGO Conference 1988 - 90. In 1993 he was appointed to United Nations Environment Programme's 'Global 500' roll of honour. In 1997, he was appointed CBE for services to the environment.

Fiona Harvey is an award-winning journalist who has covered the environment since 2004, first at the Financial Times and subsequently for the Guardian newspaper. She has written extensively on every environmental issue, from air pollution and biodiversity to ocean plastic and climate change. Among numerous awards and recognitions, she has twice won the Foreign Press Association award for Environment Story of the Year; the British Environment and Media Awards journalist of the year; the 2022 global Society of Environmental Journalists outstanding beat reporting award for Cop26; a prestigious Covering Climate Now award in 2024; and in 2020 she was named in the Woman’s Hour Power List of 30 top UK women, focusing on Our Planet.

Fatima Ibrahim is the co-founder and Director of Green New Deal Rising, a youth movement fighting for a transformation of the economy to stop the climate crisis and build a world in which we can thrive. She has more than a decade of experience organising, training, and mobilising international movements for change. She has worked for global NGO Avaaz, EU citizens movement WeMove.eu, and supported the development of youth climate movements from South Africa to Brazil during her years as part of the UKYCC. She is a 2020 Global Citizen Prize winner and her writing has been published in Vice, Time Magazine, The Guardian and other outlets.

Event Date & Time

Sunday 4 May 2025, 3 - 4pm

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