Nicholas Dunlop
Nicholas Dunlop | |
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| Born | 7 November 1956 Wellington, New Zealand |
| Occupation(s) | 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 Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action.[9] 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] 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.[11] In 1987 he was a co-recipient of the first Indira Gandhi Peace Prize presented by the President of India.[12][13]
More recently,[when?] 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] Working with celebrities such as the actor Leonardo DiCaprio and the rock band Crosby, Stills and Nash, Dunlop has helped to increase public attention to major problems such as climate change and desertification. He has also served as a Consultant to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme on relations with national parliaments.
Educated in New Zealand, India and Singapore, Nicholas Dunlop is a citizen of New Zealand and Ireland and is based in England.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "World parliament online". Appropriate Technology. 28 (4): 36. 2001. ProQuest 200005934. Retrieved 26 February 2025.
- ^ Dunlop, Nicholas; Ury, William (8 June 2004). "Innovators - TIME". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ^ "The Forum - 04/10/2009 - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Supergrid". BBC. Retrieved 4 March 2025.[time needed]
- ^ "Loughborough University-led clean energy research programme to support global leaders' Green Grids Initiative". Loughborough University (Press release). 3 November 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ^ a b Yost, Jack (1999). Planet Champions: Adventures in Saving the World. Bridgecity Books. ISBN 978-0962368356.
- ^ "Councillor Biographies – Nicolas Dunlop". World Future Council. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
- ^ Voice of Future Generations: The World Future Council. Annual Report 2007 (PDF). Hamburg: World Future Council. 2008. p. 10.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Brunet, Luc-Andre. "Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons". Open Learning. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
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.
- ^ "Indira Gandhi Prize". indiragandhi.in. Retrieved 1 March 2025.[failed verification]
- ^ "Kiwi among winners of international prize". Evening Post. 21 November 1987.[not specific enough to verify]