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21st Century Challenges: engaging with issues facing you today
 

Future events

bullet  Razing the Rainforests
Wednesday 22 October at 19.00
Join a panel of international experts including Warren Evans, World Bank Director of Environment and Simon Counsell, Director of the Rainforest Foundation discussing the challenge of how best to conserve the world’s rainforests.

bullet  Booking &tickets: Society Members £10; non-Members £15
  
Book tickets online
bullet  Venue: Royal Geographical Society with IBG, 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR 

bullet  Migration, skills & the job market
Tuesday 11 November at 19.00

Join a panel of international business experts including Philippe Legrain, author of Immigrants: Your country needs them, discussing the growing challenge that businesses are facing with changing European & global workforce patterns in the 21st Century.

bullet  Booking & tickets: Society Members £10; non-Members £15
  
Book tickets online
bullet  Venue: The Auditorium, The Willis Building, 51 Lime Street, EC3M 7DQ

 

Previous events

 

Are we concreting the countryside?
Concreting the Countryside
· Sir Peter Hall, Martin Crookston & Simon Jenkins
 

 

Sir Gordon Conway, Lord Browne & Malcolm Wicks at 21st Century Challenges event
Future of low-carbon energy
· Lord Browne & Malcolm Wicks

Sir Gordon Conway, Kofi Annan & Bob Geldof at 21st Century Challenges event
Africa in the 21st Century
·
Bob Geldof & Kofi Annan

 

What are London's flood risks?
London Under Water

· Evan Davis, Dave Wardle, Alex Nickson & Rowan Douglas

21st Century Challenges

A series of events informing you to make decisions on issues such as:

  • Africa's future
  • Low carbon energy
  • South-East England's housing demand 
  • London's flood risks
  • Climate change
  • Migration
  • ‘North-south’ divide
  • Diversity in the UK
  • Global development

 


A new website is to be launched in Summer 2008 to accompany this series.

If you wish to sign up to be informed of developments, please email
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