Phillip Sutton

Philip Sutton is a sustainability strategist. He coauthored with David Spratt the 2008 book Climate Code Red, a case for emergency action. Philip also was the architect of the Flora and Fauna Guarantee legislation passed in 1988, which became the model for the revision of wildlife legislation around Australia. Philip has been involved in Victorian Government strategy development in the areas of energy, environmental conservation, and the wood products industry. Philip’s work ranges across science and technology-based policy, law, industry policy, economics and social change strategy. In 2011, Philip founded RSTI (Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation) to work on the emergency speed transition to a safe climate and sustainability-promoting economy. In 2015 Philip published StrikingTargets: matching climate goals with climate reality, a strategy paper in the Breakthrough series, that maps a new approach to climate action in the post-Paris (COP 21) era.