Julie-Anne Hogbin
She/Her
Based: London
Julie-Anne joined Climate Strategies in May 2019. She combines Masters level education in environmental sustainability with extensive experience of successfully delivering impactful projects across the commercial, public, academic and NGO sectors.
She has previously worked as a Project Manager for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she was involved in acquisition and delivery of air quality and clean energy projects. Before that, she worked as Centre Manager for the ESRC Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) at the University of Surrey and as Project and Institute Manager at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.
There is no long-term future for fossil fuels. If the UNFCCC is unsuccessful in achieving pre-emptive global climate action, fossil fuels will eventually either be outcompeted by rapid declines in the cost of clean energy, or forcibly curtailed by non-proliferation agreements to avoid further loss and damage. Fossil fuel use has grown alongside GDP since the Industrial Revolution, therefore their inevitable decline presents a critical challenge to global prosperity. Socio-economic barriers, such as fiscal deficit, costs of capital, currency stability and low energy access, lock many global south economies into fossil fuel dependency. However, Just Transitions can present opportunities to unlock the creative energy of all social partners in realising the co-benefits of ambitious climate action.