GSI Seminar Series - Responsible Climate Intervention

We know that ceasing the burning of fossil fuels and eliminating excess greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is absolutely crucial. However, lowering atmospheric greenhouse gas levels – even under the most aggressive scenarios – may not happen fast enough to avoid devastating climate impacts, including the onset of tipping points in the climate system.  What happens next is key to mitigate those effects and our work in this area will help shape a responsible approach to intervention going forward...

Presentations followed by a facilitated discussion, led by Peter Lefort of the Green Futures Network

Speaker Biographies:

Professor Catriona McKinnon is political philosopher working on environmental ethics and climate justice with a particular focus on what we owe to future people in the face of our multiple environmental crises. She is the co-director of RENEW: Renewing Biodiversity Through a People-in-Nature Approach. This five year programme brings together academics from all Faculties at Exeter, and dozens of external partners, to research and implement solutions to the UK's biodiversity crisis.

Professor Paul Halloran leads a group at the University of Exeter focused on marine climate impacts, marine carbon cycling and marine climate solutions. He leads a UK government funded seawater marine Carbon Dioxide Removal project.

Professor Jim Hayward:  Jim has won research grants in excess of £7m in the field of atmospheric science where his research focusses in particular on the role of atmospheric aerosols in climate change and on the cooling impacts of aerosol to combat the impacts of climate change.

Please let us know if you will be attending in person by emailing infogsi@exeter.ac.uk.

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