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ESRC Debate - Planet Earth - are we destroying our future?

Dates and Times
2nd November 2004
6.30pm - 8.00pm
Location
Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
Travel Details

Nearest tubes are Picadilly circus and Charing Cross. Charing Cross is the nearest mailine train station.

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Notes and Other Info

This event is by invitation only. Please contact  Ashleigh Jackman on 020 8542 7622 for an invitation.

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Agenda

The Prime Minister has recently put climate change and the threat to our planet at the top of the political agenda. But scientists are divided over the scale of the threat and the possible solutions.

The panellists for this debate represent a wide spectrum of views on the issues facing our planet. This will be an opportunity to discuss and debate in an informed way the issues and challenges which, many claim, threaten our very future

Agenda
6.00pm Registration and refreshments
6.30pm Welcome and introduction
Panel presentations and discussions with
  • Chair: Geoff Watts, Presenter, BBC Leading Edge Programme
  • Professor Paul Ekins, Director, ESRC's Environment and Human Behaviour Programme, Policy Studies Institute
  • Tony Juniper, Director, Friends Of The Earth
  • Professor Bjorn Lomborg, University of Aarhus and author of The Skeptical Environmentalist
  • Mark Lynas, writer and campaigner on climate change issues, and author of High Tide: News from a Warming World
  • Dr Emma Tompkins, Senior Research Fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change

    7.00pm Questions from the floor

    8.00pm Closing remarks and vote followed by drinks reception.
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