The meeting will seek to contribute to the evolving UK policy debate on climate-energy futures, and in particular reflect upon the position of nuclear power within this debate.
New evidence, from a survey conducted for the Understanding Risk Programme and Tyndall Centre by MORI, on public attitudes towards different forms of energy generation - including that of nuclear power, and framed in the light of climate change concerns - will be presented by the Programme on Understanding Risk in collaboration with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. This is seen as a new contribution to the current reframing of the nuclear power sector as one part of the UK’s future responses to the difficult problems that climate change poses.
The discussion meeting will also aim to address the following more generic questions:
· What different framings of the energy futures issue exist, and how might they be reconciled?
· What institutional mechanisms might need to be put in place to achieve consensus upon UK energy futures?
· How can public trust in relation to these issues be gained, if at all?
· Is a wider forum for public debate and deliberation about the issue a desirable goal?
The meeting will include invited contributions from the policy and wider stakeholder communities.
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