Christian Downie talks about the politics of climate change. Why do we fail, why when pursed for policies related to climate change fail, why current policies towards climate change are either neglected or not practised?

He talks about how we can win climate change policies by harnessing the power of politics.

Christian Downie is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He was previously a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Christian has worked as a foreign policy advisor to the Australian Government’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and a climate policy advisor to the Department of Climate Change. Christian holds a PhD in international relations and political science from the Australian National University, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in economics. He has spent time teaching or researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Balsillie School of International Affairs among others. His latest book is Business Battles in the U.S. Energy Sector: Lessons for a clean energy transition This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Watch the full talk on the TEDx Talks YouTube channel, featuring Dr Christian Downie