Creating an energy plan for Leeds that’s zero carbon, nature friendly and socially just.
Exploring barriers to participation in climate action faced by folks who experience racial and/or social marginalisation.
Mobilising fans, athletes and clubs to bring an end to high-carbon, gambling and alcohol sponsorship in sport!
Uplifting and politicising the role that young people of the global majority can play in prefiguring the world we need: diverse, just, sustainable, community-led and resilient.
Municipalities and citizens can lead the way in fair, clean and democratic energy transitions across the world.
Michael is based in Liverpool and works on the Fossil Free Football campaign, targeting the relationship between high-carbon sponsorship and sport. Michael first worked for Platform as a freelancer on the Fossil Free LFC campaign and is now the Director of Game Changer – a sponsorship pledge aiming to bring an end to harmful industries using sport as an advertisement opportunity.
Radhika works with communities in Tower Hamlets to dream up alternative food systems. She has a background in community arts & writing, and leads on the project’s creative strand to tell local food stories.
Lucy has joined Platform as the Energy transition Partner for the Climate Action Leeds (CAL) project. She works with communities and organisations to help feed into Leeds’ plan for a just energy transition and support local community energy projects. Lucy is also an eco-artist.
Lauriem works on community-led food justice research and movement building in Tower Hamlets. They are passionate about building and resourcing alternative food systems both in the Global North and in places that have suffered long term colonial exploitation such as their home islands Guadeloupe and Martinique. Lauriem is also a musician.
James works on our project Crude Britannia, using literature, film, theatre & live art to explore how oil has shaped the UK’s economy, politics and culture over the past century. He’s co-author of several books – The Next Gulf (2005), The Oil Road (2012) and Crude Britannia (2021).