Prof. Clive L. Spash cordially invites you to a research seminar presented by Prof. Kevin Anderson (Professor of Energy and Climate Change, Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research) with the title: “Ostrich or Phoenix: responding to the challenges of climate change”.
The talk will be followed by a discussion panel with Ulrich Brand, Professor of International Politics, Universität Wien (Author: Beautiful Green World: Myths of a Green Economy), Magdalena Heuwieser, Finance & Trade Watch (Initiative: „System Change, not Climate Change!“), Manfred Kohlbach, Climate Change, Federal Ministry of Environment (Negotiator: Austrian delegation to UNFCCC) and Clive L. Spash, Professor of Public Policy & Governance (Author: Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics).
This seminar will revisit the scale of the climate challenge, arguing that whilst the science of climate change has progressed, we obstinately refuse to acknowledge the rate at which our emissions from energy need to be reduced. Afterwards it will develop a quantitative framing of mitigation, based on IPCC carbon budgets, before finishing with more qualitative examples of what a genuine low-carbon future may contain. It takes place on October 14, 2015 at 06:00 pm in Room TC.1.02 (WU Campus, Teaching Centre). To register and for more details please click here and see the attachment.