Philip Sutton is the Manager and Chief Strategist of RSTI (Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation), a non-profit organisation that engages in strategy development and engagement to catalyse the urgent initiation of a full scale transition to a sustainable economy – focusing especially on the very rapid emergence of the necessary social and political commitment to make this transition possible. Philip speaks to Beyond Zero's Niels and Michael about a new research and engagement project series which aims at making a safe climate restoration actually happen. The Safe Climate Science project sets out to apply best practice safety standards, and broad-based ethics, to generate and win support for a new paradigm for climate goals. Under 3 years in development, these projects build on the climate work that Philip has been doing since 2006 and the project is now ready for your involvement kicking off in early 2015. Philip is co-founder of Safe Climate Australia and past-President of the Sustainable Living Foundation and the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics. Philip co-authored Climate Code Red, which puts forward a case for emergency action on climate change. Philip was the architect of the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act passed in Victoria in 1988.