Christiaan De Beukelaer

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Christiaan De Beukelaer took up sailing to get away from his desk on weekends. This worked out well, until he developed an interest in how to decarbonise the shipping industry.

Trained as a Musicologist at the University of Amsterdam, Christiaan further studied both Cultural Studies and Development Studies at the University of Leuven. He subsequently lived in Burkina Faso and Ghana to study how governments and international organisations mobilised music industries as a driver of “development,” as part of his doctoral studies at the University of Leeds. This award-winning research took him to some of the best (and some of the worst) gigs he’s ever been to.

Throughout his career as an anthropologist of policy, Christiaan has tried to understan
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“In externalising the social and environmental cost of shipping to the high seas, the shipping industry mirrors the collective action problem that is the climate change to which it contributes. Every country wants to connect its economy across the oceans, but few feel responsible for the social and environmental impacts of shipping, or indeed climate change.”
Christiaan De Beukelaer, Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping

“If we can’t decarbonise shipping, we can’t solve the climate crisis.”
Christiaan De Beukelaer, Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping

“If we can’t decarbonise shipping, we can’t solve the climate crisis.”
Christiaan De Beukelaer, Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping

“In externalising the social and environmental cost of shipping to the high seas, the shipping industry mirrors the collective action problem that is the climate change to which it contributes. Every country wants to connect its economy across the oceans, but few feel responsible for the social and environmental impacts of shipping, or indeed climate change.”
Christiaan De Beukelaer, Trade Winds: A Voyage to a Sustainable Future for Shipping

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