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SUMMARY:Frontiers in Natural Sciences 2024: The need for science in a carbo
 n-constrained world
DESCRIPTION:Frontiers in Natural Sciences: Dean’s Annual Lecture 2024\nJo
 in us online:\nLive event link: https://bit.ly/FrontiersLecture\n\nAbstra
 ct\nFollowing COP 28\, it is evident that science needs to step up\, and i
 s expected to step up\, to supply the evidence base for ambitious climate 
 action. Based on the latest IPCC reports\, this talk will set out what is 
 currently known under three headings. Urgency: the nature and scale of the
  risks we face\;  agency: the capacity of governments and others to take 
 action\, if they choose to do so\; and equity: how climate change action c
 an reinforce other societal goals and build consensus around the way forwa
 rd. The talk will also consider new scientific challenges arising from COP
  28 itself\, and the views of IPCC’s member governments about the shape 
 of IPCC’s Seventh Cycle which has just got under way.\nBiography\nJim Sk
 ea was elected IPCC Chair for the Seventh Assessment cycle in July 2023. H
 e was Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III for the 6th Assessment Cycle. Fro
 m 2009 to 2023\, Jim Skea was Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial 
 College London. His research interests are in energy\, climate change and 
 technological innovation. He was Research Director of the UK Energy Resear
 ch Centre 2004-12 and Director of the Policy Studies Institute 1998-2004. 
 He has operated at the interface between research\, policy-making and busi
 ness throughout his career. He was a member of the UK Committee on Climate
  Change from its inception in 2008 until 2018 and was the Chair of Scotlan
 d’s Just Transition Commission from 2018 to 2023. From 2015-17\, he was 
 President of the UK Energy Institute. He was awarded a CBE for services to
  sustainable energy in 2013 and an OBE for services to sustainable transpo
 rt in 2004.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/170707/the-need-for-science-in-a-carb
 on-constrained-world/
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LOCATION:The Great Hall\, Sherfield Building\, South Kensington Campus\, Im
 perial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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