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The Honourable
Sir Jonathon Porritt
Bt CBE
Porritt receiving an honorary degree from the University of Exeter in 2008
Chair of the Ecology Party
In office
1979–1980
Preceded byJonathan Tyler
Succeeded byGundula Dorey
Co-Chair of the Ecology Party
In office
1982–1984
Preceded byGundula Dorey
Succeeded byPaul Ekins and Jean Lambert
Director of Friends of the Earth
In office
1984–1990
Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission
In office
2000–2009
Chancellor of Keele University
In office
2012–2022
Preceded bySir David Weatherall
Succeeded byJames Timpson
Personal details
Born (1950-07-06) July 6, 1950 (age 75)
London, England
PartyGreen Party of England and Wales
SpouseSarah Staniforth CBE (m. 1985)
Magdalen College, University of Oxford
ProfessionEnvironmentalist and writer
Known for
Founder of Forum for the Future; author; commentator
Websitejonathonporritt.com

Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is a British environmentalist, writer, and sustainability advocate.[1][2]

He co-founded Forum for the Future in 1996 and served as the inaugural chair of the Sustainable Development Commission from 2000 to 2009. A long-standing member of the Green Party of England and Wales, he previously chaired its predecessor, the Ecology Party, and served as director of Friends of the Earth from 1984 to 1990.[3]

Porritt has acted as an environmental adviser to Charles III and is a patron of Population Matters and other environmental organisations. He frequently contributes to magazines, newspapers and books, and appears on radio and television.

Early life and education

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Jonathon Porritt was born in London, the son of Arthur Porritt, Baron Porritt, 11th Governor-General of New Zealand and his second wife, Kathleen Peck.[4] Lord Porritt, who served as a senior officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II,[5] was also the bronze medalist in the 1924 Summer Olympics "Chariots of Fire" 100 metres race.[4] As well as receiving a life peerage, Lord Porritt had previously been awarded a baronetcy in 1963.[6][4] Jonathon Porritt therefore became the 2nd Baronet on Lord Porritt's death on 1 January 1994.[4]

Porritt was educated at Wellesley House School, Broadstairs, at Eton College and Magdalen College, University of Oxford where he earned a first-class degree in modern languages.[7][8][9]

Porritt started training as a barrister, but switched to teaching English at St Clement Danes Grammar School (later Burlington Danes School) in Shepherd's Bush, London in 1974.[10][11] He taught there between 1974 to 1984, serving as Head of English from 1980 to 1984.[2]

Environmental and political involvement

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The Green Party

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In the 1970s and early 1980s, Porritt was a prominent member of the Ecology Party, the predecessor to the Green Party of England and Wales. In 1977, he was elected to the party's National Executive Committee, and served as chair of the Ecology Party from 1979 to 1980, and from 1982 to 1984. He presided over changes making the party more prominent in elections, himself standing as a parliamentary candidate in the UK general elections of 1979 and 1983.[2][12] In 1979, he achieved 2.8% of the vote in St Marylebone.[13] In 1983, he achieved 2.1% in Kensington, receiving attention from national media.[14] [15] Under his stewardship, party membership grew from several hundred to around 3,000.[16][17]

In 1984, Porritt published his first book, Seeing Green: Politics of Ecology Explained, while he was policy director of the Ecology Party.[18] As of 1999, it was described by Roger Eatwell and Anthony Wright as "the best general guide to the politics of ecology by an insider".[19] A 2011 review in Sustainability in Crisis assessed the book as "prophetic in many respects",[20] noting that while some predictions were off in their timing, Porritt had anticipated the development of an "information-rich, knowledge-poor" age, writing before the rise of the internet.[20]

The Greens achieved 15% of the European parliamentary vote in 1989, but were able to win only 1.2% of the vote in the 1992 general election, when environmental issues were largely ignored.[21] During this time, Porritt became a strong public advocate of change in the Green Party of England and Wales. Along with Sara Parkin, he advocated for a more professional organisation with identifiable leaders, a change that was eventually approved.[22][23]

In 1992, Porritt backed the election of Cynog Dafis, who was elected to Parliament as the joint Plaid Cymru-Green MP for Ceredigion. However, in 1994, the regional council of the Green Party suspended Porritt for supporting Dafis, and demanded that Dafis stop identifying himself as Green.[24][25][26][27]

Porritt speaking at a West of England Design Forum in Bristol (April 2008).
Porritt speaking at a West of England Design Forum in Bristol (April 2008).

Between 1996 and 2009, Porritt largely withdrew from active party politics, concentrating instead on non-partisan and activist roles independent of the Green Party.[28] However, he was, in 2008, a supporter of the "Green Yes" campaign, which advocated for the introduction of a leadership role in the Green Party.

In March 2009, Porritt spoke at the launch of the South West Green Party European election campaign in Bristol, stating that he had always remained a member of the party, and that it was the correct time to reaffirm his support. He noted that many of the policies in the Ecology Party's manifesto of 1979 were now accepted by mainstream political parties. The manifesto, titled The Real Alternative, set out a programme for a sustainable, decentralised economy based on renewable energy, self-sufficiency in food and industry, and a rejection of the growth-at-all-costs consensus shared by other parties.[29] He has since emphasised the importance of active support:[28]

Every single one of the issues that the Green Party has been campaigning on for the last 35 years is getting worse and worse, which means that people should no longer put off the day when they accept that the future is either Green or not at all.

Friends of the Earth

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In 1984, Porritt left teaching to become director of Friends of the Earth in Britain, a post he held until 1990. Although initially criticised as inexperienced, in the long term he has been seen as an important factor in the organisation's success in the late 1980s.[30] He edited the Friends of the Earth Handbook (1987)[31] and encouraged the organisation to promote practical solutions in its local environmental campaigns—as well as thinking more globally.[30] During his time as director, the membership of the organisation expanded from 12,700 to 226,300.[32]

Looking back in 2012, Porritt stated that becoming director of Friends of the Earth "was probably the best decision of my life".[30] However, his affection for the organisation has not stopped him from harshly criticising it, as he did in 2015, when the group's priority issues list did not include opposition to new nuclear power stations.[33]

External videos
video icon Jonathon Porritt: video interview, The Guardian, 2012
video icon "Sustainability for All", Jonathon Porritt at TEDxExeter, 2013
video icon Jonathon Porritt on population, Population Matters, 2013

Beyond Agenda 21

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Porritt attended the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, eventually writing an introduction for The way forward: Beyond Agenda 21 (1997).[34] From 1993 to 1996, he chaired the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, then known as UN Environment and Development UK (UNED UK).[35] The organisation encourages international stakeholders to engage in decision-making for sustainable development.[36]

Forum for the Future

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With Sara Parkin and Paul Ekins, in 1996, Porritt founded Forum for the Future, a sustainable development charity.[37] The organisation offers advice on sustainability planning to multinational companies—including Kellogg's and Unilever.[38]

After founding Forum for the Future, Porritt largely withdrew from party politics to concentrate on non-partisan political work. He stepped down from the organisation in May 2023, after which he returned to direct climate campaigning, supporting Just Stop Oil, Defend Our Juries and Zero Hour.[39]

Sustainable Development Commission

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In 2000, Porritt was appointed as the inaugural chair of the incoming Labour government's Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), set up by Prime Minister Tony Blair. He was reappointed twice for three-year terms, the last of which began on 26 July 2006, and chaired the SDC between 2000 to 2009.[40][41] He was critical of the Labour government for its environmental record and its pro-nuclear stance[42]—and for neglecting energy efficiency, renewables, and decentralised solutions—and has campaigned against nuclear power.[43][44] In Scotland, Porritt criticised one-year carbon reduction targets as "macho breast beating", contributing to the Scottish Executive's adoption of five-year budgets,[45] and in 2005, he criticised UK aviation and transport policies as "entirely unsustainable".[46][47][48]

While at SDC, Porritt encouraged the work of economist Tim Jackson, whose SDC report, Prosperity Without Growth, was later published as a book under the same title.[49] Since stepping down from the SDC in September 2009, Porritt has publicly supported Jackson's report analysis of economic growth as it relates to environmental and human well-being, and the potential for a sustainable economy.[50] MPs pressed the government on the SDC's call for an index of sustainable economic welfare in 2004.[51] The SDC closed on 31 March 2011.

Population Matters

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Porritt is a patron of the population concern charity Population Matters, formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust.[52] He has stated that population growth is a serious threat to the global environment and that family planning, including both birth control and abortion, is a part of the answer to global warming.[53] He recommends that people should have no more than two children,[54][55][56] and has asserted that "promotion of reproductive health is one of the most progressive forms of intervention" that could be used to reduce carbon emissions.[57]

Porritt's views are based in part on a 2009 report by Thomas Wire at the London School of Economics, commissioned by Optimum Population Trust. It compared the cost-effectiveness of access to family planning with other interventions—such as low-carbon technologies—and concluded that access to family planning, by decreasing population and the subsequent human carbon footprint, could have a substantial impact on global warming.[58] Similar views are supported by other researchers and international organisations.[59][60][61]

Porritt's remarks in 2009 drew criticism from anti-abortion groups and some religious leaders.[53] He was also criticised for praising China's one-child policy. Human rights organisations and academics have characterised the policy as coercive and as causing significant suffering.[57][62] Although the Green Party and Population Matters state that they support only voluntary family planning, critics have argued that population control policies risk being applied coercively in ways that infringe human rights.[63] Porritt remained definite about his position:

I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate. I think we will work our way towards a position that says that having more than two children is irresponsible.

Environmental commentator George Monbiot, who also uses carbon emissions for ecological footprinting, has criticised Porritt's emphasis on family planning. He asserts that radical family planning will have little impact unless people limit their consumption.

People might populate less as they become richer, but they do not consume less; rather they consume more. That is, as the habits of the super-rich show, there are no limits to human extravagance.[56]

People in lower-income countries have been shown to have a far smaller carbon footprint than those in wealthier nations.[64] As a result, increasing access to contraception in lower-income countries—while potentially reducing population growth—may have only a limited effect on global carbon emissions.[56]  Porritt argues, however, that this does not diminish the responsibility of wealthy countries to address population issues, since population growth affects both developed and developing societies. As he stated in 2011, "every country needs a population strategy, including the US and the UK".[55]

Porritt is also an advisor to Project Drawdown, which "maps, measures, models and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming".[65][66] Among the priority solutions, according to Project Drawdown, are the education of women and the availability of family planning services.[67]

Other activities

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Advisory and governance roles

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Porritt acts as advisor to many bodies on environmental matters, as well as to individuals including King Charles III.[68][69] He also co-founded the Prince of Wales's Business and Sustainability Programme, running executives' seminars in Cambridge, Salzburg, South Africa and the USA.[70]

Porritt served as chair of Sustainability South West, the South West roundtable for sustainable development in England, from 1999 to 2001—and later as president.[71][72] Porritt also served on the board of the South West of England Regional Development Agency, alongside Baroness Bakewell, contributing to regional economic and sustainable development initiatives.[73][74][75]

In 2004, the Carnegie UK Trust established a Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Lord Steel, into the future of rural community development across the UK and Ireland, and its membership included Porritt and Lord Haskins. He has also supported measures to protect rural communities from harmful agricultural pesticides.[76]

Porritt also served as a trustee of the World Wildlife Fund (UK) from 1991 to 2005.[77] He is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine and actively supports the efforts of experts promoting renewable energy and sustainable development, such as Walt Patterson.[78][79] He has served as president of The Conservation Volunteers since April 2014, succeeding Lord Norrie.[80]

Business and sustainability engagement

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Porritt has worked to encourage businesses to move towards sustainability.[81][82] In 2004, Porritt became a trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.[83] In 2005, he became a non-executive director of Wessex Water, and in 2008, he became a non-executive director for the Willmott Dixon Group.[81][84] Porritt also serves on the Sustainable Retail Advisory Board for Marks & Spencer, advising the company on its long-term sustainability strategy.[85][82][86]

Political movements and campaigns

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Porritt has endorsed the Forests Now Declaration, presented at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting, held in Bali in December 2007. The declaration calls for new market-based carbon policies and reforms to prioritise the protection of tropical forests.[87][88] Porritt has strongly criticised proposals by the UK government to sell off Britain's remaining 635,000 acres of public woodlands,[89][90] and helped to form the organisation Our Forests in 2012 to protect and expand public and private woodlands throughout England.[91][92]

Porritt is a convenor of the cross-party political movement, More United[93][94] and is a supporter of the Climate and Nature Bill.

In July 2025, the British government proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000, making expressions of support for the group a criminal offence. In August 2025, Porritt was arrested in Parliament Square, Westminster after publicly displaying support for Palestine Action.[95] Following his arrest, Porritt stated that the UK was "complicit in Gaza genocide" and described the proscription as an attack on the right to protest. He was arrested again in Bristol in November 2025, and a third time later that year, as part of the Defend Our Juries' Lift the Ban campaign. In early 2026, he appeared at a plea hearing and pleaded not guilty. Around 500 supporters had been processed by that point, with approximately 2,200 cases still pending.[96][97]

Prominent published works

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Porritt's 1984 book Seeing Green: Politics of Ecology Explained proved influential in recruiting activists to the party, most notably Caroline Lucas, who joined the Greens in 1986 after reading it and going on to become the party's first elected MP. Prior to the 2015 general election, Porritt was one of several public figures who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of Lucas.[98]

His best-selling book Capitalism: As if the World Matters was originally published in 2005, and was revised and republished by Earthscan in September 2007. In it, Porritt argues that capitalism must be controlled and redirected to create a sustainable world.[99][100] Porritt's book The World We Made (2013) is a futurist account of how the world will have changed by 2050, noted for both its comprehensiveness and optimism.[38]

His 2025 book Love, Anger & Betrayal, co-created with twenty-six Just Stop Oil activists, examines intergenerational justice and the climate emergency through the testimonies of young campaigners, many of whom served prison sentences for their participation in civil disobedience.[101]

Honours and awards

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In 2000, Jonathon Porritt was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to environmental protection.[102]

Porritt speaking at Trinity College, Oxford (September 2016).
Porritt speaking at Trinity College, Oxford (September 2016).

From 2012 to 2022, Porritt served as Chancellor of Keele University, succeeding Sir David Weatherall and preceding James Timpson; he was the fifth person to hold the role since the university's foundation in 1949.[103][104] He received honorary doctorates of laws of the University of Sussex in 2000 and from the University of Exeter in 2008.[105][106] He has received honorary doctorates of science from Heriot-Watt University in 2001 and from Loughborough University in 2009.[107][108]

He received the Ethical Corporation Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017, the Edie Sustainability Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020, and the UK Green Business Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023. He holds honorary degrees from more than twenty universities, including Dundee, Essex, Gloucestershire, Greenwich, Liverpool John Moores, Newcastle, Northumbria, Nottingham, Plymouth, Queen's Belfast, Warwick and Winchester, among others. He is also an honorary fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.[109]

Personal life

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In 1985 he married Sarah Staniforth CBE, Lady Porritt, daughter of Malcolm Arthur Staniforth, who went on to become Museums and Collections Director at the National Trust and was appointed a CBE in 2015 for services to national heritage.[110]

Arms

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Coat of arms of Jonathon Porritt
Notes
The arms of The Hon. Jonathon Porritt were originally granted to his father. They consist of:
Crest
On a wreath Or and Gules, a demi Heraldic Antelope Gules armed Azure collared Or, holding a Torch of the last enflamed proper between two Fern Fronds Vert
Escutcheon
Or, a serpent in bend vert between two lions' heads erased gules, on a chief of the last two swords points upwards in saltire of the first, between as many roses argent both surmounted by another gules barbed and seeded proper
Motto
Sapienter et fortiter ferre (To bear wisely and bravely)

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Porritt, Jonathon (1984), Seeing Green: Politics of Ecology Explained (Seeing green ed.), Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, ISBN 978-0631138921
  • Jonathon Porritt; David Winner (1988), The coming of the Greens, London: Fontana, ISBN 978-0006372448, OL 17962277M
  • Jonathon Porritt (1990), Green alternatives in a troubled world, Salford: University of Salford, OL 19496395M
  • Porritt, Jonathon (1990), Where on Earth Are We Going?, London: BBC Books, ISBN 978-0563208471, OCLC 24750762, OL 21710100M
  • Porritt, Jonathon, Captain Eco and the Fate of the Earth, Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978-0863187032
  • Jonathon Porritt (1995), Liberty and Sustainability: Where One Person's Freedom is Another's Nuisance, John Stuart Mill Institute, ISBN 9781871952087, OCLC 45855524, OL 12076254M
  • Jonathon Porritt (1 January 2000), Playing Safe: Science and the Environment, Thames & Hudson, Inc., ISBN 9780500280737
  • Porritt, Jonathon (2005), Capitalism as if the world matters, Sterling, VA: Earthscan, ISBN 978-1844071920, OL 3405876M
  • Porritt, Jonathon (2013), The World We Made, Phaidon, ISBN 9780714863610
  • Porritt, Jonathon (2020), Hope in Hell, Simon & Schuster UK, ISBN 9781471193279
  • Porritt, Jonathon (2025), Love, Anger & Betrayal: Just Stop Oil's Young Climate Campaigners, Mount House Press, ISBN 9781912945542

Articles

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See also

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