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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.
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] .
"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.
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]'.
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