Gabrielle Walker

Gabrielle Walker is a passionate advocate for climate action, currently focused on the intersection between business, NGOs, governments and philanthropy. She is Co-founder of two organisations aiming to accelerate action in the confused but vital area of carbon removals/negative emissions, and figure out how to do them right: non profit organisations ecosystem orchestrator Rethinking Removals and for-profit market maker CUR8. Gabrielle has been working on climate change for nearly three decades. She was climate editor at Nature and Features Editor at New Scientist, has written countless magazine and newspaper articles, broadcast many programmes for the BBC (TV and Radio) and has authored four books, including co-authoring the bestselling book The Hot Topic, how to avoid global warming while still keeping the lights on, which was described by Al Gore as “a beacon of clarity” and by The Times as “a material gain for the axis of good”. She is a global ambassador for Client Earth. Gabrielle gives keynote addresses to corporate audiences around the world and is an accomplished moderator of high-level debates, guiding panels involving CEOs, former heads of state, government ministers, military generals and humanitarian leaders. She has worked at senior level with global companies in most sectors from finance and energy to consumer goods, transport and heavy industry. She has a PhD from Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton. A self-confessed ice addict, she has made more than a dozen trips to both poles. She has also climbed trees in the Amazon rainforest, swum with piranhas, been sneezed on by a humpback whale, hooked lava out of a live volcano and flown in zero gravity. www.cur8.earth www.rethinkingremovals.org www.gabriellewalker.com

Marrying the power of nature and human ingenuity to take carbon out of the air and keep it out.

business advice, Carbon removals, changing mindsets, circular economy, Climate change, cross-sector collaborations, net zero, new narratives, speaking, storytelling, writing

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