This is a new role at senior level at Ditchley, reflecting the increasing entanglement of energy and climate policy in geopolitics. The role will lead our efforts to widen and deepen our networks across geopolitics, energy and climate communities. Our goal is to better embed the strategy and tactics of climate action and its political delivery in the geopolitical landscape we have today, rather than the more conducive conditions we might want.
Drawing on Ditchley’s unique convening power, this role will lead on building communities that intersect geopolitics, climate and energy, including political leaders, relevant officials, leading scientists and senior figures in the private sector. A central task will be to develop a much needed and hard headed framing of climate action in the context of energy security, the de-globalisation of trade, the dependence on China on renewables, and the gap left by the US on global leadership. We aim also to help define the UK’s role in the global energy transition.
(Subject to resources, a further domestic strand of work will create networks within the UK around industrial strategy priorities, regional investment, clusters and supply chain security, as relevant to both growth and a green transition, or growth through the development of green technologies.)
The role will need to integrate and work effectively with other core Ditchley themes and senior leads, including our work on geopolitics, technology and democracy.