Paul’s key focus areas recently include:
- Release of his book The Great Disruption by Bloomsbury Press in the USA, Europe and Australia in 2011. Associated with this was a two month book tour across Australia, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, USA and NZ and follow up speaking engagements around the world. More information on the menu above.
- Publications and thought pieces. His most recent was a paper with financial risk expert Phil Preston on the impacts of The Great Disruption on valuation of coal, oil and gas companies. Another was a thought piece with Jorgen Randers, one of the authors of the seminal 1972 publication The Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth, which was titled “The One Degree War Plan“. This was published in the academic journal The Journal for Global Responsibility.
- Writing a weekly commentary piece, The Cockatoo Chronicles, that is emailed free to subscribers.
- Writing a regular column on Climate Spectator, a news site focused on business and climate change.
- Speaking engagements around the world to business, community and government audiences, having delivered well over a hundred such speeches around the world in the last decade.
- Advisory relationships with various companies in Australia and internationally
- Board and other relationships with various non profits including:
- Inspire Foundation where he is a founding director and has served as Chairman of this multi-award winning, internet based youth NGO that is a world leader in the use of digital technology to engage young people with its Reach Out and Act Now programs. (www.inspire.org.au)
- Climate Coolers where he serves as director and supported CEO Natalie Isaacs to build the 1 million women campaign focused on climate change action
- He is one of the Global Core Faculty of the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment Program run by Cambridge University’s Program for Sustainable Leadership and is Chairman of the Australian program. In this program he lectures and facilitates senior executive seminars and special programs around the world driving corporate action on sustainability. These have included the groundbreaking P8 Summit where the Chairman/CEOs of 8 of the world’s largest pension funds came together to define action they could take on climate change. (www.cpi.cam.ac.uk/bep)
Paul’s history is one of deep commitment to social action and cutting edge experiments in social change in both the business and the non-profit sector. As well as the above activities Paul has, over his 35 years of active engagement on sustainability, helped to break new ground in many areas as an entrepreneurial businessman and CEO and as a creative campaigner and activist. More details can be found on this site under Paul’s history.
