October 23 - Kevin Anderson
Can meaningful hope spring from revealing the depth of our climate failure? Welcome to Greenspiration hour - 3 600 seconds of inspiration.
Green Innovation Park is proud to welcome world renowned Professor of Energy and Climate Change - Kevin Anderson.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen
Peel away the layers of dangerously naïve hope and unfounded optimism and the mitigation challenge posed by the Paris Agreement now demands the rapid and profound re-shaping of contemporary society. Whilst the models dominating the mitigation agenda employ evermore exotic and speculative technologies to remain ‘politically palatable’, the arithmetic of emissions increasingly embeds equity at the heart of any mathematically cogent strategy. Dress it up however we may like, the Parisian mitigation agenda is ultimately a rationing issue. Until we are prepared to acknowledge this, we will continue our reckless pathway towards a 3-5°C future.
Against such a depressing backdrop, do the rapid emergence of new and vociferous constituencies and the heightened profile of climate change suggest early cracks and the prospect of new light?
When? October 23, 12.00-13.15
(Lunch can be pre-ordered and purchased on site. Coffee and lunch sandwich 95kr)
Where? Växthuset, Green Innovation Park, Ulls väg 29C, 756 51 Uppsala
Limited seats - sign up here!
Last day to register, October 20
Feel free to stay at a fika afterwards and network!
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Kevin Anderson holds a joint chair between the Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) at Uppsala University and the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester. He recently completed two years as the Zennström professor of climate change leadership at Uppsala and previously held the role of director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. Kevin is research active with publications in Science, Nature and Nature Geosciences.
Kevin engages widely across all tiers of government (EU, UK and Sweden) on issues ranging from shale gas, aviation and shipping to the role of climate modeling (IAMs), carbon budgets and ‘negative emission technologies’. With Uppsala colleagues, Kevin has made a key contribution to the development Paris-compliant carbon budgets for Swedish Län and Kommuner, and with Manchester colleagues, his analysis contributed to the framing of the UK’s Climate Change Act and the development of national carbon budgets.
Kevin has a decade’s industrial experience, principally in the petrochemical industry. He is a chartered engineer and a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Website: http://kevinanderson.info
Twitter: @KevinClimate
