Nicholas Dunlop
| Nicholas Dunlop | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 November 1956 Wellington, New Zealand |
| 💼 Occupation | activist, lecturer, climate change, renewable energy, nuclear disarmament |
Nicholas Dunlop is a climate, environment and disarmament advocate and a political organiser.
Career
Nicholas Dunlop is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of the Climate Parliament, a global network of members of parliament and congress working to prevent dangerous global warming and promote renewable energy. He launched the Climate Parliament in 2001 (then known as the e-Parliament) together with William Ury, author of the book on negotiation "Getting to Yes".[1][2] As its first Secretary-General, Dunlop promoted the concept of "supergrids" to facilitate the distribution of renewably generated electricity from producer to consumer countries in Europe.[3][4] This led to the Green Grids Initiative which was launched at the 2021 Glasgow climate summit (COP26) by the Prime Ministers of India, Samoa and the United Kingdom and Ministers from Australia, France, Nigeria and the United States.[5]
He founded and led several other international non-profits.[6] He is one of the founding members of the World Future Council.[7][8] He was previously one of the founders and the first Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action.[9][10][11] In 1984, he was one of several people who coordinated the launch of the Six Nation Peace Initiative, bringing together a group of heads of government to work on ending the Cold War and to promote nuclear disarmament.[9][10][12] The group included: President Raoul Alfonsin of Argentina, Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi of India, President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Prime Ministers Olof Palme and Ingvar Carlsson of Sweden, and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece.[13][14] In 1986 he was a co-recipient, on behalf of Parliamentarians for Global Action, of the first Indira Gandhi Peace Prize presented by the President of India.[15][16]
From 1991, Dunlop was executive director of EarthAction, a global network of more than 2,000 citizen groups in 160 countries, working together to generate political will to solve global problems.[1][6] As head of EarthAction, Dunlop worked with celebrities such as the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash to increase public attention to major problems such as climate change and desertification.[17][18][19][20]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "World parliament online". Appropriate Technology. 28 (4): 36. 2001. ProQuest 200005934. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ↑ Chu J. A Google for Global Politics. TIME Magazine. 2004;163(18):58-59. Accessed March 7, 2025. https://search-ebscohost-com.libezproxy.open.ac.uk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=12917826&site=ehost-live&scope=site
- ↑ Marlow, Tim (4 October 2009). "The Forum - 04/10/2009 - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Main part of the interview starts at 38'45". Retrieved 2025-03-02.
- ↑ Heap, Tom (21 September 2009). "BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Supergrid". BBC. Location: 4'30-8'15. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
- ↑ "Loughborough University-led clean energy research programme to support global leaders' Green Grids Initiative". Loughborough University (Press release). 2021-11-03. Retrieved 2025-03-01.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Yost, Jack (1999). Planet Champions: Adventures in Saving the World. Bridgecity Books. ISBN 978-0962368356. Search this book on
- ↑ "Councillor Biographies – Nicolas Dunlop". World Future Council. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2013. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Voice of Future Generations: The World Future Council. Annual Report 2007 (PDF). Hamburg: World Future Council. 2008. p. 10. Search this book on
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Arnold, David (22 May 1984). "5 LEADERS URGE END OF NUCLEAR ARMS RACE". Boston Globe. ProQuest 294280925. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
"This is an unprecedented diplomatic effort," Nicholas Dunlop, secretary general of Parliamentarians for Global Action, said from the organization's headquarters in New York yesterday.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Kellberg, Christina (23 January 1988). "Fredsiden foddes pa en biograf [Idea For Peace Was Born In A Cinema]". Dagens Nyheter.
Nicholas Dunlop is the man behind the six nations initiative [...] His ideas had by now led to the creation of an organisation, 'Parliamentarians for Global Action for Disarmament, Development and Progress [världsförbättring]'.
- ↑ Freeman, Jack (2003). "Parliamentarians for Global Action: 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition". Parliamentarians for Global Action. p. 4, 28. Retrieved 9 March 2025. "1978: At a UN Special Session on Disarmament, two Canadian MPs, Mr. David MacDonald (Conservative) and Mr. Mark MacGuigan (Liberal), are joined by Mr. Nick Dunlop, (New Zealand) in forming Parliamentarians for World Order (later to become known as Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA)."
- ↑ Brunet, Luc-Andre. "Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons". Open Learning. Retrieved 2025-03-01.
the Six Nation Initiative (also known as the Five Continent Initiative) [..] originated among a group of anti-nuclear activists including New Zealander Nicholas Dunlop, Canadian Douglas Roche, and Icelandic MP Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
- ↑ Dunlop, Nicholas; Grimsson, Olafur (January 1985). "Indira Gandhi and the Five Continent Initiative". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 41 (1): 46. Bibcode:1985BuAtS..41a..46G. doi:10.1080/00963402.1985.11455896. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ↑ "Six-Nation Conference Calls for Freeze on Nuclear Weapons." New York Times, 29 Jan. 1985. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A176635919/AONE?u=tou&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=3246bec1. Accessed 7 Mar. 2025.
- ↑ "Indira Gandhi Prize". indiragandhi.in. Retrieved 2025-03-01.[not in citation given]
- ↑ "Kiwi among winners of international prize". Evening Post. 21 November 1987. (The Evening Post, one of the leading newspapers in New Zealand, has since been renamed The Post.)
- ↑ "BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | DiCaprio's Clinton exclusive". news.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
- ↑ "Leonardo DiCaprio pleit voor milieuvriendelijke brandstoffen". HBVL (in Nederlands). 2000-03-23. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
- ↑ "Leonardo diCaprio Upozorava Svjetsje Čelnike na Zagadenje [Leonardo diCaprio Warns World Leaders about Pollution]". Hina (Croatia). 21 March 2000.
- ↑ "Alerta verde en la red". La Nación (in español). 2000-04-12. Retrieved 2025-03-10.
External links
- Nicholas Dunlop speaks about the World Future Council (via YouTube)
- The Energy Internet (Journeyman Pictures)
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