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IIPP MPA alum launches youth-led climate think-tank

16 November 2022

Noah Herfort, a former IIPP MPA student, has set up a youth-led think-tank, Climate Vanguard, to develop the radical transformations that can address catastrophic climate change and build a just, habitable world.

Climate Vanguard logo in red on white

Herfort聽began developing the concept of Climate Vanguard as he began his MPA programme at IIPP in 2021. Together with co-founder Jack Johnson and a group of young volunteers, the project was formally launched in October 2022. Climate Vanguard partners with the youth climate movement, which in recent years has proved a force to be reckoned with. The think-tank鈥檚 audience is intended to be young people, rather than politicians or civil servants.聽

Climate Vanguard is researching an that can be implemented now to address the climate and ecological crisis. Through tailored research like this, and bespoke communications assistance, Climate Vanguard hopes to support the evolution of the youth climate movement into a radical force of change with a political-economic plan to win. This is furthered through the think-tank鈥檚 convening function, which brings together youth climate leaders to forge a common language, narrative, and vision of radical transformation.聽

Climate Vanguard has now published its first report, . The report shows how the UK fossil fuel industry can be nationalised and dismantled in line with 1.5掳C decarbonisation. It reveals the exact legal pathways to accomplish a fossil fuel phase-out, embedded in an Acceleration Scenario that maps fast-changing political realities in the backdrop of worsening climate chaos and sustained political inaction. The research has been endorsed by from across the world, showcasing a shift from demanding leaders 鈥渓isten to the science鈥, to concrete political-economic transformation.

鈥淚t is essential that the youth climate movement unites around an emergency political-economic programme. Think-tanks have proven their efficacy in precipitating tangible change. It鈥檚 now time to reproduce that model in the interest of protecting life on earth,鈥 says Herfort.

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Read more about Climate Vanguard on its .

Read about IIPP鈥檚 MPA programme here.