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 Engineerign 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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Can Jamie Rutherford follow the wall and run the width of England before the sun sets?
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Last year Rwandans commemorated the 20th anniversary of the 1994 genocide. Fergus was in Kigali over this period and attended genocide memorial ceremonies, massacre sites and interviewed a number of survivors. He reflects on Genocide Memorial Week and where Rwanda now finds itself in the modern world.
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