GSI Seminar - COP29 debrief

Join us for a panel discussion to hear colleagues' reflections on COP29 in Baku. What were the outcomes? What was achieved? What were the issues people cared about?  

Speakers

Dr Mike O'Sullivan is a Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Exeter and a co-author of  The Global Carbon Budget, the critical annual update on the latest trends in global carbon emissions. His research is focused on developing a deeper understanding of the terrestrial carbon cycle and its coupling with environmental change. He studies the cycling of carbon between atmosphere, plants, and soils from local to global scales and uses process-based models along with earth observations to investigate feedback mechanisms between the biosphere and atmosphere.

Ashish Ghadiali is founder/director of Radical Ecology and a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Exeter where he has led (with Professor Tim Lenton) on the research and public engagement project, Addressing the New Denialism. He was co-author of the 2023 study for Nature Sustainability, Quantifying the Human Cost of Global Warming, and he is co-chair (with Professor Paul Gilroy) of the Black Atlantic Innovation Network at UCL as well as a frequent contributor to The Guardian and The Observer where he writes on art and the environment.

Katrina NcNeill is a Senior Climate Science Communicator at the Met Office, engaging with UK government climate policy and evidence teams to translate scientific insights for policy development, especially for non-technical audiences. She has attended four UNFCCC COP conferences, including COP29 in Baku, and for the past five years she’s played a central role in logistics, planning, and briefing for the Met Office delegation, helping to develop strategy, capturing key themes and networking with diverse stakeholders. In her ‘spare’ time, Katrina is pursuing a Masters in Psychology to understand the psychological impacts of climate change, aiming to integrate this knowledge into her work in communications.

Dr Michelle Bieger, digLab will moderate the discussion.
Michelle is a writer, researcher, and data scientist. Her research expertise has surrounded analysing the chemical composition of the atmospheres of planets outside of our social system, which largely serves to confirm that indeed, there’s no planet B out there yet. Her PhD led her to an interest in AI ethics, and subsequently, a career in  data science and software engineering. She has led outreach and moderation events around the topics of climate change, and writes on all of the above topics, as well as climate change and policy.

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