Aoife O'Leary on decarbonising the shipping industry to unlock a global energy transition

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Aoife O'Leary is the Director of international climate at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). She is a lawyer and as specialised on the environmental impacts of international shipping in aviation, she's also a board member of Rethinking Economics, a charity campaigning to reform the economics curriculum in the UK.

With Aoife, we talked about growing up in a union household, the murky world of shipping, the potential of renewable energy export, navigating complexity, the right way to implement carbon pricing and what to do with the revenues generated, changing the climate change narrative and having the right incentives for corporates.

References mentioned during this episode:

• Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
• Transport and Environment
• Getting to Zero Coalition
• Amnesty International
• Rethinking Economics
• International Maritime Organization
• Stop Ecocide
• UK Independence Party (UKIP)
• Extinction Rebellion
• A more nimble brand of conservation might look like an Airbnb business model. Rent, Don’t buy, Anthropocene
• These folks think eternal economic growth will lead to unstoppable climate change, Bloomberg Green
• Donegal
• Paris Agreement
• Poseidon Principles
• Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill
• Overton window
• Greta Thunberg
• Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle, Dervla Murphy
• Open Borders, Brian Kaplan

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