The Edmund Lectures: “Climate Change: Science and Solutions”

November 20, 2024 | 7:00 pm
St Edmundsbury Cathedral

This October and November will feature Big Issues: The Edmund Lectures 2024 – a series of lectures by internationally renowned experts on some of the big issues that challenge our lives as we continue to navigate the 21st Century.

 

“Climate Change: Science and Solutions” – Professor Rachel Warren

Wednesday 20 November at 7.00pm

 

Interdisciplinary synthesist Professor Rachel Warren is Professor of Global Change and Environmental Biology at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK.  She has over 25 years’ experience leading interdisciplinary teams to deliver policy relevant science on climate change. Rachel is a joint author of a Nobel Peace Prize winning intergovernmental report on climate change (2007) and co-authored the UN Environment Programme’s Making Peace with Nature report (2021).

 

The effects of global climate change are greater, and are happening faster, than most people ever imagined. Big increases in searing heat and flooding are no longer confined to the predictions scientists have made about the future – they are already lived realities for much of the world’s population. After record hot summers in southern Europe and floods in the UK, many of us are finally waking up to an inconvenient truth; our climate and our weather is changing fast. Science has identified a crisis. How big are the risks? What do they mean for the economy, biodiversity, and food security? How can climate science help us to think about our planet and how we can safeguard its future? Professor Warren will address these questions and help us to reflect on what we can do.

 

Free to attend, but please book here.

 

Interdisciplinary synthesist Professor Rachel Warren is Professor of Global Change and Environmental Biology at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, UK.  She has over 25 years’ experience leading interdisciplinary teams to deliver policy relevant science on climate change. Rachel is a joint author of a Nobel Peace Prize winning intergovernmental report on climate change (2007) and co-authored the UN Environment Programme’s Making Peace with Nature report (2021) and the Special Report on 1.5°C warming (2018).  Since 2007, her work has informed world governments about the risks associated with global warming and has catalysed the decarbonization of the world’s largest pension fund. Her academic background and training are in physics and the natural sciences at Cambridge University. Rachel appears in the Reuters hot list of top 1000 climate scientists.