Responding to Climate Change: going beyond dangerous'

 

 

Tuesday 4th May 2010

Speaker: Professor Kevin Anderson| , Director of Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research 

Chair: Professor Andy Gouldson| , Director, Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy 

Time: 17.00 - 18.00

Venue: LT17, Level 7, Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre, University of Leeds

 

In his recent lecture, 'Climate change: going beyond dangerous', Tyndall Centre Director, Professor Kevin Anderson, offered a stark assessment of the prospects for avoiding dangerous levels of climate change. An audience of well over a hundred, including students, academics, activists, businesspeople and policymakers attended the lecture. Richard Turton Strategy Manager for Yorkshire Forward commented that it was "An excellent lecture on the scale and immediacy of the challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Professor Anderson's lively critique of the politics, emissions targets and scientific data encourages us to question the assumptions upon which policies and plans are being made and focuses attention on the need for early action to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change."

 

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