I Don't Envy the UK Climate Change Chief’s Job
People want to feel like the green transition isn’t happening to them, but with them. I asked how Emma Pinchbeck intends to deliver.
Emma Pinchbeck (center), chief executive of the Climate Change Committee.
Photographer: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images EuropeNot much rattles Emma Pinchbeck. After all, she was the chief executive officer of Energy UK, the industry’s trade association, in the middle of a once-in-a-generation energy crisis, while she was pregnant.
With that hardiness and more than a decade of experience in decarbonization-related roles, she was a clear pick to take over as the new leader of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), an independent body set up to advise and assess the British government on climate mitigation and adaptation, at a time when finding feasible, cost-effective pathways to net zero carbon emissions may seem close to impossible.