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Jeremy Leggett
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Leggett at public discussion and book signing, August 2007
Born1954
EducationDoctor of Philosophy in Earth sciences from Oxford University
Occupation(s)Social entrepreneur, Author.

Jeremy Leggett, a geologist by training, began his career as a consultant for the oil industry, having received funding from the Royal School of Mines as well as oil companies BP and Shell [1], but later became an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace, before evolving into a social entrepreneur and author.

He has written several books including Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis (Portobello, 2005: also published in the US as The Empty Tank) and The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era (Penguin, 1999). These books examined the issues of oil depletion and global warming.

He spent the 1980s in the service of Big Oil, as a geologist and faculty member of the Royal School of Mines in London, and the 1990s as top campaigner for Greenpeace International.[2] Jeremy Leggett later became the founder and is currently executive chairman of Solarcentury the UK’s largest independent solar electric company. Leggett is one of a number of entrepreneurs who have started a renewable energy business. Other successful self-starters in the sector include Shi Zhengrong, Tom Dinwoodie and Tom Lerner.

He also serves as a founding director of the world's first private equity fund for renewable energy. From 2002 to 2006, Leggett was a member of the UK Government Renewables advisory board. He was a campaigner on climate change for Greenpeace International from 1989 to 1996. He was the recipient of the President's Award of the Geological Society, and in 1987 the Geological Society's Lyell Fund.

In 2007, Leggett stated that he believes global oil production would peak in 2008, give or take 2 years. He has called for a mass withdrawal from fossil fuels and advocates that coal should be left in the ground.[3] Leggett has been critical of the lack of reporting by the British mainstream media on the economic imperatives of climate change abatement.[4] Leggett is known for his support of microgeneration technology in the fight to abate global warming.

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References

  1. ^ "Jeremy Leggett". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  2. ^ "Jeremy Leggett: Peak Oil Meets Climate Change". Retrieved 2008-07-01.
  3. ^ Jeremy Leggett Intertwines Peak Oil and Climate Change. Presentation at the ASPO-5 Peak Oil and Gas Conference. 24 August 2004. Retrieved on 6 June 2007.
  4. ^ "We cannot afford not to invest in renewables". The Guardian. 2008-07-10. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
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