The Climate Crisis and its Solutions
Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States, confronts the greatest challenge of our time – the global climate crisis – and its solutions,. His lecture with both educate and inspire the audience by asking three powerful questions about our ability to ensure a sustainable future. Using the latest data, Mr Gore – who helped introduce the world to the man-made forces threatening to destroy our planet in the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth and again in its follow-up film An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power – discusses the challenges and opportunities to confront the climate crisis within the complicated political and social dynamics across the world today.
This lecture is one of the highlights of our 2017-18 events calendar, and part of a programme of events designed to celebrate the tenth anniversary year of The Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment.
Tickets
The ballot for tickets has now closed. Successful ticket holders will be contacted in early December.
Public Programme
08.15 Registration, with refreshments | Level 3 Concourse, Huxley Building
08:30 Doors open | Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley Building
08:30 All guests must take seats. No admission after 8.40am. At this point any remaining seats will be released to the waiting list.
09:00 Welcome, by Professor Nick Jennings, Vice-Provost (Research), Imperial College London
Main address, by former Vice President Mr Al Gore
Reflections and audience Q&A, Chaired by Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Chair of the Grantham Institute, Imperial College London
10:00 Event ends
At the Grantham Institute our mission is to lead research into climate change and the environment, and to translate it into real world impact. Following the COP negotiations in Bonn, this event will be an opportunity to consider what actions are required to help us meet our global climate goals.
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