Simon Sharpe

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Simon Sharpe


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Simon Sharpe is Director of Economics for the Climate Champions Team and a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. He has published influential reports and created ground-breaking international projects in climate change risk assessment, economics, and diplomacy.

He played a leading role in the UK’s Presidency of the COP26 climate change talks in 2020-21, as Deputy Director of the UK government’s COP26 Unit, where he created global campaigns that led to significant international agreements on ending coal power, moving to zero emission vehicles, and protecting forests. His other roles in government included leading international climate change strategy, establishing low-carbon growth as a priority in the UK’s industrial strategy, and ...more

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COP30: Never mind the roadmap; the road is made by walking

The world is investing twice as much in clean technologies as in fossil fuels this year.  Investment is a leading indicator of economic change, from which emissions reductions follow. 

We all know there is a long way still to go.  But from meetings at and around COP30, the agenda for diplomacy to speed up progress in eliminating emissions is increasingly clear.  In short, the priorities are to spre

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