Five Degrees of Change

Claire DuPont: Better public services will help relieve the unequal impacts of climate action

The Irish professor of European and international governance at Ghent University tells the Five Degrees of Change podcast about the policy and personal changes she would make for a greener world

Claire DuPont: extreme climate events are increasingly being warned about, but ‘we need to take that knowledge and translate it into policy action’. Picture: Fotogenic

Clare woman Claire DuPont has unique perspective on the climate crisis.

As a research professor of European and international governance at Ghent University, she understands better than most the political economy of climate action, and why governments are both succeeding and failing in their varying efforts.

As part of Five Degrees of Change, the Business Post’s energy and environment podcast sponsored by PwC, DuPont gave us her three policy changes and two personal changes for a ...