Thursday 10 October 2024
12:30
Sir Dave King
The Climate Crisis: the State of the Science, and a Comprehensive Strategy for Humanity’s Future.
Dave will give an overview of the current state of the climate crisis and the prognosis over the coming decades, followed by a comprehensive strategy based on 4Rs: Reduce emissions deeply and rapidly; Remove excess greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere and to come; Repair those parts of the climate system already tipping; and generate Resilience in all cities and regions of the world against the inevitable impacts.
Dave is the Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and Founder and former Chair of the Centre For Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge. He was also the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000-2007, and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change from 2013-2017.
Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group
Dave is the Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, Chair of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and Founder and former Chair of the Centre For Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge. He was also the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000-2007, and the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change from 2013-2017.
