“Patterns for a Sustainable Planet”
Posted on | May 8, 2013 | No Comments
This is to advise you of a very special talk on Saturday 18th May at the Curve in the Forum at 11oc am.
We are exceptionally lucky and privileged to have Professor Corinne Le Quéré come and talk to us about “Patterns for a Sustainable Planet”. Professor Le Quéré is Professor of Climate Change Science and Policy at the University of East Anglia and is Director of the UEA Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.
Professor Corinne Le Quéré is originally from Canada. She completed a Ph.D. in oceanography in University Paris V1 (1999), an M.S. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from McGill University and a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Montreal. She has conducted research at Princeton University in the United States and at the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany.
Professor Le Quéré was author of the 3rd, 4th and 5th (ongoing) Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. She co-chairs the Global Carbon Project, a non-governmental organisation that fosters International research on the carbon cycle and publishes annual updates on global emissions and sinks of carbon dioxide. Further information on her current work on Future Earth can be found on this link: http://www.icsu.org/future-earth
The new international research programme Future Earth, will coordinate international research on sustainability for the next 10 years
best wishes,
Marguerite On behalf of Norwich United Nations Association
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