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.
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