Webinar invite: can we really collaborate *across* political divides?
Ask the Green Conservative
Dear Climate Majority,
We’re delighted to invite you to the next CM Thinks interactive webinar, in collaboration with RepublicEn:
On October 24th 2024
At 20:00 to 21:15 BST.
Guest speakers Amber Rudd and Bob Inglis will be in conversation with CMP co-directors Liam Kavanagh and Rupert Read.
Reaching out to the Climate Majority means opening channels of depolarising communication and collaboration across the political spectrum. With this in mind, at this event we’ll ask:
What do we mean by depolarisation? How can we actively depolarise climate conversations making it possible for Greens, socialists, c/Conservatives and more to pursue the same goals?
How can conservative values guide environmental stewardship and conservation?
How can we constructively reflect on problems arising from progressive left dominance of the climate conversation?
—The environmental movement has struggled to catalyse urgent action at the rate, scale and depth the world needs. Among the contributing factors may be a resistance to understanding and incorporating some of the wisdom of different cultural and political frameworks. Can we learn to do things differently? —
The panel conversation will be followed by questions and answers. Come join us by signing up below - for free or with a donation!
About the Speakers
Bob Inglis is the Executive Director of republicEn.org, a growing group of conservatives who care about climate change based in the U.S.A. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2005-2011, a Republican representing Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina.
On leaving Congress (which he was forced to do by denialist pressure), Inglis went full-time into promoting free enterprise action on climate, launching an educational initiative now based at George Mason University and known as republicEn.org. For his work on climate action Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film Merchants of Doubt, in the Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously (episodes 3 and 4), and has given TED Talks on political courage and on his metamorphosis on climate change.
Inglis was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012, and Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014. He and his wife Mary Anne currently live on a small farm in northern Greenville County, South Carolina.
Amber Rudd served as British Home Secretary from 2016 to 2018, and as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2018 to 2019. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings and Rye representing the Conservative Party (2019-2019). She identifies herself as a one-nation conservative, and has been associated with both socially liberal and economically liberal policies.
Rudd served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2015 to 2016 in the Cameron Government, where she worked on renewable energy resources and climate change mitigation. She served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Energy and Climate Change from 2014 to 2015.
She published England's first fuel poverty strategy in more than a decade, pledging to improve the Energy Performance Certificate of all fuel poor homes to Band C by 2030. She also passed legislation requiring energy suppliers to provide a discount to vulnerable consumers over the winter and install energy efficiency measures. In November 2015, she proposed that the UK's remaining coal-fired power stations would be shut by 2025 with their use restricted by 2023.
"We need to build a new energy infrastructure, fit for the 21st century."
On 16 November 2018, Rudd was appointed Work and Pensions Secretary by Prime Minister Theresa May. She was re-appointed by Boris Johnson on 24 July 2019 and succeeded Penny Mordaunt in her previous portfolio as Minister for Women and Equalities. Rudd then resigned from the cabinet and the Conservative whip, in protest against Johnson's policy on Brexit and his decision to expel 21 Tory MPs.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
The CMP Team