‘Emotional tasks’ crucial for climate success, says Quaker

Rosie Robison said it was critical that policies are designed ‘as if people matter’.

by Rebecca Hardy 26th January 2024

The social aspects of sustainability are crucial to progress in tackling climate change, a Quaker professor said last month. Yet around ninety per cent of funding – ‘certainly at the EU level’ – goes towards technological projects, not social ones, said Falmouth Friend Rosie Robison, in her inaugural professorial lecture.