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2015 Christ's Climate Seminar Series: Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions
The Centre for Science and Policy and Christ's College have worked with Professor Charles Kennel, Emeritus Director at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to convene a series of seminars on Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions. The series explored the cultural framings of climate change, to ask whether human understanding of global warming has affected our response to climate change. This series followed on from the seminars on adaptation to climate change that Professor Kennel gave in 2014, podcasts of which can be found here, and supplementary materials here.
26 February: Seminar 1- Ditch the 2 degree warming goal
Speakers: Professor Charles Kennel & Professor Susan Owens
Professor Charles Kennel discussed whether the widespread goal to stop global warming at 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels is in fact misguided. Professor Susan Owens responded.
A written summary of the seminar can be read here.
To listen to the talk, please click the link below:
5 March: Seminar 2 - Confronting Climate Risks: Overcoming the ‘Tragedy of the Horizons’
Speakers: Rowan Douglas & Dr Andrew Coburn
Rowan Douglas discussed whether the major longer term risks of climate change are unable to adequately influence short term business actions and public policy. Dr Andrew Coburn responded.
A written summary of the seminar can be read here.
To listen to the talk, please click the link below:
12 March : Seminar 3 - Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Environment, Our Responsibility
Speakers: Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta & Lord Martin Rees
Professor Dasgupta and Lord Martin Rees discussed a joint workshop at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences which combined natural and social scientific expertise to address the relationship between humanity and nature and its implications for sustainability.
A written summary of the seminar can be read here.
To listen to the talk, please click the link below:
19 March: Seminar 4 - Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas
Speaker: Dr Hildegard Diemberger and Professor Brian Wynne
Dr Diemberger explored the different ways that people around the world perceive, narrate, and frame changes in their environment, with a focus on Tibet and the Himalayan regions. Professor Brian Wynne responded.
A written summary of the seminar can be read here.
To listen to the talks, please click the link below:
Conveners:
Professor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Christ’s College, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy)
Dr Robert Doubleday (Executive Director, Centre for Science and Policy)
Professor Charles Kennel
University of California San Diego
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Mountain Messages: Knowledge, Values, and Decision Making in the Himalayas
Dr Hildegard Diemberger and Professor Brian Wynne led a discussion on the tensions between globalised and localised experiences of climate change in the final seminar of the Multiple Dimensions of Climate Change series.
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Sustainable Humanity, Sustainable Environment, Our Responsibility
The penultimate session of the Climate and Sustainability in Multiple Dimensions seminar series saw talks from Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, Professor Charles Kennel and Lord Martin Rees on the relationship between humanity and nature, and its implications for sustainability.
