Hear from a range of experts as they discuss evolving climate science, the current policy stance, what the COP25 climate talks hope to achieve, and what you can do.
Speakers:
Professor Julian Allwood FREng - Professor of Engineering and the Environment, University of Cambridge
Dr Alina Averchenkova - Distinguished Policy Fellow, the Grantham Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor Corinne Le Quéré FRS CBE - Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia
Professor Joe Smith (Chair) - Director, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Richard Black - Director, Energy and Climate Resilience Unit and former BBC Science and Environment Correspondent
Martine Croxall (Chair) - Presenter and Journalist
Natalie Fee - Founder, City to Sea
Harriet Lamb - CEO, Ashden and former CEO of International Alert and Executive Director of the UK Fairtrade Foundation
Leo Murray - Director of Innovation, Possible
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Photographer Kiliii Yüyan illuminates stories of the Arctic and human communities connected to the land. Informed by ancestry that is both Nanai/Hèzhé (East Asian Indigenous) and Chinese-American, he explores the human relationship to the natural world from different cultural perspectives.
Paul Rose takes us on an expedition across the world from your own home.
Introducing the Society's newly digitised film collection, and a deeper look at R.A. Bagnold's 1932 expedition – the first east-west crossing of the Libyan Desert as captured on film.
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