Mike Jones
Senior Fellow, Economics and Social Policy
Mike Jones was a Senior Research Fellow with Policy Exchange’s Energy & Environment Unit. He was a member of David Cameron’s Global Poverty Commission and, subsequently, an advisor to the Conservative Party in Wales. In 2018 he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Bath. In 2020-21, Mike undertook research for Frank Field, a former Welfare Minister, and Cool Earth, a UK-based international NGO that protects endangered rainforest.
In the eyes of many, 2021 was an extraordinary year for environmental politics. Within hours of becoming president, Joe Biden announced that the U.S. would be re-joining the Paris agreement. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, a twelve-day summit on climate change was wound up with promises on all sides, including a commitment to phase-down the use of coal. Globally, these events took place against a backdrop of record-breaking fires, heatwaves and floods. At […]
Edward O. Wilson, the famous naturalist who wrote Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, died on Boxing Day at the age of 92. Recognised as an influential if controversial ecologist and the world’s leading expert on the behaviour of ants, Wilson was among the first biologists to argue that human beings have an innate tendency to focus on life and lifelike processes. The object of this reflection was summarised by a single word, “biophilia”, which served as the title […]