Tom Athanasiou is a climate-equity specialist. He directs EcoEquity, a small activist research group, co-ordinates the international Climate Action Network’s Equity Working Group, and co-directs the Climate Equity Reference Project, a long-term modeling and analysis initiative designed to advance equity as a driver of extremely ambitious global climate mobilization. His principle goal is to ensure that the global climate transition is fair enough, and ambitious enough, to actually succeed.