Chris Goodall

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English businessman, author and expert on new energy technologies

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Christopher Frank William Goodall (born 29 December 1955) is an English businessman, author and expert on new energy technologies. He is an alumnus of St Dunstan's College, University of Cambridge, and Harvard Business School (MBA). He was the Green Party candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon in the 2024 general election, having run in the same constituency in 2010. He writes Carbon Commentary, a free newsletter on global advances in clean energy. His latest book, Possible: Ways to Net Zero, was published by Profile Books in March 2024.

Books

His début book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, won the 2007 Clarion Award for non-fiction.{{cite web |url=http://www.profilebooks.com/chris-goodall/ |title=Chris Goodall |publisher=Profile Books |year=2013 |accessdate=3 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112025121/http://www.profilebooks.com/chris-goodall/ |archive-date=12 January 2013 |url-status=dead |url= https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/27/renewableenergy-energy |title=The 10 big energy myths |first=Chris |last=Goodall |work=The Guardian |date=27 November 2008 |issn=0261-3077 |oclc=60623878 |accessdate=3 January 2013}}{{cite web |url= https://profilebooks.com/ten-technologies-to-fix-energy-and-climate.html |title=Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate |publisher=Profile Books |year=2008 |accessdate=11 November 2016}} His third book, The Green Guide For Business, was published in 2010 by Profile Books. Goodall also wrote Sustainability: All That Matters, which was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton.

In July 2016, The Switch was published by Profile Books, focusing on solar, storage and new energy technologies.{{cite web |url= https://profilebooks.com/the-switch.html |title=The Switch |publisher= Profile Books |year=2016 |accessdate=11 November 2016}}

Goodall's What We Need To Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future (2020, Profile Books: ) was short-listed for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation.

Goodall has also contributed a number of articles to The Guardian, the Independent, and the Ecologist among others. He has also spoken at literary festivals around the UK, at the British Library, the Science Museum and many universities.

Stance on nuclear energy

On the issue of UK's energy mix, Goodall used to consider that nuclear power had a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Goodall once said "Including nuclear power in this mix will make a low-carbon and energy-secure future easier to achieve".{{cite news |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/chris-goodall-the-green-movement-must-learn-to-love-nuclear-power-1629354.html |title= The green movement must learn to love nuclear power - Commentators - Voices - |first=Chris |last= Goodall |work=The Independent |date= 23 February 2009 |accessdate=3 January 2013}} However, he opposed the construction of the Hinkley C nuclear power plant.{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/18/we-are-pro-nuclear-but-hinkley-c-must-be-scrapped |title= We are pro-nuclear, but Hinkley C must be scrapped |first1=George |last1=Monbiot |author-link=George Monbiot |first2=Mark |last2=Lynas |author2-link=Mark Lynas |first3=Chris |last3=Goodall |author3-link=Chris Goodall |work=The Guardian |date= 18 September 2015 |accessdate=11 November 2016}}

More recently, Goodall has changed his position on nuclear and his analysis has focused on how the UK can move to a future powered by 100% renewables. This is evident from his Carbon Commentary blog and his 2020 book, What we Need to Do Now.

Trusteeships and advisory roles

Goodall helped develop the UK's first employee-owned solar PV installation in 2011 at the Eden Project.{{cite news |url= http://www.edenproject.com/media/2012/03/eden-project-and-ebico-team-up-to-launch-uks-first-staff-owned-solar-programme |title= Eden Project and Ebico team up to launch UK's first staff-owned solar programme |work=Eden Project |date=6 March 2012 |accessdate=13 November 2016}}

Bibliography

References

References

  1. Acknowledgments, ''Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate''
  2. Back cover, ''How to Live a Low-Carbon Life''
  3. "Our Candidates".
  4. (4 April 2024). "Carbon Commentary | Chris Goodall".
  5. "Possible: Ways to Net Zero".
  6. (2013). "The Green Guide For Business". Profile Books.
  7. (2012). "Sustainability: All That Matters". [[Hodder & Stoughton]].
  8. "2020 Writing on Global Conservation shortlist".
  9. (2013). "Chris Goodall". The Guardian.
  10. Goodall, Chris. (15 July 2016). "Solar on the best UK sites is competitive with cheap coal". The Ecologist.
  11. (2016). "Chris Goodall". A-Speakers.
  12. "How much space will a 100% renewables UK require?".
  13. Page 17: 'My proposal for our route to zero carbon emissions is for a twenty-fold expansion of renewable energy.' Page 37: 'A few years ago, we might have thought that new nuclear generators might fill the role of renewables today. But the experience around the world of building new power stations has been almost uniformly disastrous.' Page 37: 'At today's expected price levels, nuclear power would be at least twice the cost of offshore wind or solar.'

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