Join our panel for a fascinating conversation on insights from interviews with climate deniers and ‘delayers’. We’ll be discussing motivations, triggers and the reasons behind the climate apathy. And we’ll examine the takeaways for how to best communicate with these audiences to help fight for a sustainable future.

Panellists: 

Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE s an environmental psychologist, specialising in perceptions and behaviours in relation to climate change, energy and transport, based in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. She is Director of the UK Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations and regularly advises government and other organisations on low-carbon behaviour change and climate change communication.
Ade Adepitan MBEis a TV presenter, Paralympic medallist, and journalist. Ade’s work has taken him across the globe; going undercover with C4’s Dispatches, reporting foreign affairs for Unreported World and more recently fronting the ground-breaking BBC Two Series, Climate Change: Ade on the Frontline. Filmed during the pandemic, Ade meets the people and places around the globe who have been directly affected by climate change. An exceptional public speaker and live host, Ade supports a plethora of charities and continues to deliver motivational speeches to schools, charities and businesses around the world.

Clover Hogan is a climate activist and the founding Executive Director of Force of Nature – a youth non-profit mobilising mindsets for climate action. She has worked alongside the world’s leading authorities. On sustainability, consulted within the boardrooms of Fortune 50 companies and helped students in over 50 countries turn climate anxiety into action.

Dr Simon Evansis the deputy editor and senior policy editor of Carbon Brief. In 2022, he won the “energy and environment” category at the prestigious Press Gazette’s British Journalism Awards. Simon covers climate and energy policy. He holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Bristol and previously studied chemistry at the University of Oxford. He worked for environment journal The ENDS Report for six years, covering topics including climate science and air pollution.