Introduction
Stephen Tindale is Director of The Alvin Weinberg Foundation, co-founder of the organisation Climate Answers and Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Reform.
From 2000 to 2005, he was the Executive Director of Greenpeace in the United Kingdom.
Career
Tindale is noted for his recent U-turn on nuclear power. Along with three other persons who have been involved with the environmental movement, Chris Smith, Mark Lynas and Chris Goodall, he is now lobbying for privately owned multinational chemicals company INEOS in favour of nuclear power. He considers that the need to overcome the dangers of rising carbon emissions and subsequent global warming requires a rethinking of anti-nuclear positions amongst the environmental movement. In addition to current nuclear technology, Tindale supports the research and development of the thorium fuel cycle in molten salt reactors to reduce nuclear waste output and increase safety.
On leaving Greenpeace Tindale also endorsed Genetically Modified (GM) foods. Greenpeace remain opposed to GM.
His past roles have included Senior Research Fellow on environment and energy at the Institute for Public Policy Research.