Co-director of the New Weather Institute, coordinator of the Rapid Transition Alliance, assistant director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, a research associate at the University of Sussex

Andrew Simms is an author, political economist and campaigner and was policy director for many years at the New Economics Foundation.

He was a co-author and publisher of the original Green New Deal in 2008.

Andrew devised ‘Earth Overshoot Day,’ marking when in the year we start living beyond our ecological means and, with Prof Peter Newell, proposed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, now a major international campaign.

He also coined the term ‘Clone Towns’ describing the homogenisation of high streets caused by chain stores.

His other current campaigns include ‘Badvertising’ – to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency, and Car Free Mega Cities.