FUNG PUBLIC TALK
Are citizens' assemblies a solution to solve two pressing crises: democratic dissatisfaction and climate emergency? The Citizens' Convention for Climate, and the Great National Debate in France, or the Conference on the Future of Europe, were attempts presented as new initiatives. Recently, many climate…
The world needs to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century for a chance at limiting warming to less than 1.5°C. Last year, the Canadian government followed the lead of other nations and legislated a goal of net-zero by 2050. Achieving this goal requires shifting from incremental to transformational approaches…
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics; and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Daniel Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee. He received his A.B. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University and was a faculty member at Florida State University from 1968 through 1997, when he joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the…
Smuggling a cow through a tunnel and other stories: working at the intersection of development and diplomacy in protracted conflicts. This presentation will reflect on the challenges of bringing together development and diplomatic approaches in protracted conflicts, as well as looking at how breaking down barriers between these…
