Written by John Lounsbury
On April 30 2021 Hauwei Technologies sponsored a program “Great Minds Talk: How Far to Low-Carbon Living?” The participants in this discussion were Lord Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, Prof Steve Keen, Honorary Professor and Vice President Research, University College London, and Paul Scanlan, Chief Technology Officer, Huawei Carrier Business Group. The moderator is Rebecca Rice, Associate Director at BCW Global.
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About Lord Turner, from the Rocky Mountain Institute website:
Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of major power and industrial companies, investors, environmental NGOs and experts working out achievable pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C by 2040 while stimulating economic development and social progress.
He was chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking until January 2019, where he remains a Senior Fellow. He is Chairman of Chubb Europe, and a Trustee at the British Museum. In December 2018 he joined the Advisory Board of Envision Energy, a Shanghai-based group focused on renewable energy, batteries and digital systems.
From 2008-2013, Lord Turner chaired the UK’s Financial Services Authority, and played a leading role in the post crisis redesign of global banking and shadow banking regulation.
Lord Turner has held high profile roles in public policy: he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000); chairman of the UK Low Pay Commission (2002-2006); chairman of the Pensions Commission (2003-2006); he was the first chairman of the Climate Change Committee (2008-2012) an independent body to advise the UK Government on tackling climate change. The recommendations set out in their first report “Building a low-carbon economy” were adopted in 2009.
He became a cross bench member of the House of Lords in 2006.
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He is an honorary fellow of The Royal Society, and received an Honorary Degree from Cambridge University in 2017.
About Prof Keen from Wikipedia:
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen’s thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay. Hyman Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis forms the main basis of his major contribution to economics[1] which mainly concentrates on mathematical modelling and simulation of financial instability. He is a notable critic of the Australian property bubble, as he sees it.
Keen was formerly an associate professor of economics at University of Western Sydney, until he applied for voluntary redundancy in 2013, due to the closure of the economics program at the university.[2] In autumn 2014, he became a professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University in London. He is also a fellow at the Centre for Policy Development.
Prof Keen’s current position at UCL has not been added to the Wikipedia entry.
About Paul Scanlan, from LinkedIn:
Title: Chief Technology Officer
Dates Employed: Sep 2016 – Present
Title: President, Business & Network Consulting
Dates Employed: Apr 2013 – Aug 2016
Title: Vice President, Solution Sales & Marketing
Dates Employed: Apr 2011 – Mar 2013
Location: Singapore
Title: Regional CTO
Dates Employed: Dec 2009 – Mar 2011
Title: Program Director, NGN
Dates Employed: Jan 2009 – Nov 2009
We have selected 3:00 minute mark for starting the video. The first 3 minutes skipped is devoted to general promotional video about climate change and technology directed to reduce it. For the first 5 minutes after we start, there were technical difficulties with the Prof Keen transmission. The program as we present it runs for 1 hour and 1 minute.
Source: YouTube
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