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Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a research associate with the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and Fellow at theNew Economics Foundation.[1]
Andrew Simms advocates the notion ofecological debt as an illustration of the degree to which economies operate beyond environmental thresholds,[2] and initiated the annual marking of the day when the world is estimated to enter 'overshoot'.[3]
Andrew Simms also served as Policy Director for ten years, Communications Director, and established the Climate Change Programme for the foundation. He co-authoredThe Green New Deal and co-founded theGreen New Deal Group,[4] the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org[5] and cooperative think tank the New Weather Institute.[6] He was aPrincipal Speaker of theGreen Party.[7]
A political economist and environmentalist, Simms studied at theLondon School of Economics for a master's degree in development and international political economy, and has written a number of reports on climate change,globalisation andlocalisation, development issues, debt (conventional andecological debt), finance and banking, corporate accountability,genetic engineering andfood security. He coined the term 'clone towns' to describe the economic and homogenising effects of chain retailers on town centres.[8]
Simms is the author of several books including:
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