We know that climate change is speeding up and that it is a threat to the future of the planet, but are our political structures able to adapt to the pace of change, how can we better confront climate misinformation around the world, what role can technology play and how can we educate young people for the challenges to come?
Professor Laura Diaz Anadon holds the chaired Professorship of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambridge, where she directs the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance and is a Fellow of St. John’s College.
Peter Sutoris is an environmental anthropologist and Assistant Professor in Education at the University of York. He completed his PhD at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in 2019 and is the author of Visions of Development (Oxford University Press) and the 2022 book Educating for the Anthropocene (The MIT Press).
Samira Patel has spent the last seven years working at the intersection of science and policy. She has supported the Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs Office at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), where she coordinated remote sensing licensing and the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing (ACCRES) activities. She has also supported the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) at NOAA. Most recently, she has been a policy analyst at The Aerospace Corporation’s Center for Space Policy and Strategy, where she writes about Earth observation issues.
Dr Ramit Debnath is the inaugural Cambridge Zero Fellow at the University of Cambridge, a visiting faculty associate in Computational Social Science at Caltech, and a sustainability fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Ramit seeks to understand what is a desirable machine intelligence for climate action. He uses design thinking, large language models, machine learning and AI to reduce misinformation, recover trust and remove scepticism to improve public understanding of climate change.
The event will be chaired by Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge's major climate change initiative, and a Professor of Environmental Data Science. Emily is a mathematician and climate scientist and a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, of the British Antarctic Survey and the Royal Meteorological Society, and is Associate Fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy.