We are entering a critical period. The climate is changing fast and limiting temperature rise to 1.5C is looking increasingly impossible. At the same time, we are losing species faster than at any period in the past centuries. It is easy to despair and lose hope; and yet change is still possible. International agreements are critical to success, but it is local action across the globe that will bring about the most rapid change for climate and nature.
Andy Lester from A Rocha UK will summarise where we are at in terms of the climate/nature crisis and what is being done at a grassroots level to address the most extraordinary challenge of our time.
This event was organised by the South Region committee.
[Online] A four-week accelerator for those eligible for Chartered Geographer to focus your efforts in preparing your application portfolio.
Having retraced Shackleton’s 1916 survival journey, Tim explains how South Georgia’s glacial melt over the past 100 years has confirmed the importance of Shackletonian leadership in tackling climate change.
In this episode of Geography now, Nancy Campbell joins us to discuss her poetry, the geographical individuals who have inspired her work, and what it means to be the recipient of the 2020 Ness Award.
Between 2015 - 2019, award winning photographer Marissa Roth made seven transatlantic crossings on the Queen Mary II, resulting in a poetic photographic study of what it means to cross an ocean.
Dark, forgotten, golden, hopeless, wild, rising, new… The Director of the Royal African Society examines why every label diminishes Africa.
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