The 2024 Christ’s College Climate Lecture will take place on Thursday 18 January 2024 from 17:30-18:45 followed by a networking reception in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College.
We warmly invite you to join us for the 2024 Christ’s College Climate Lecture. This year’s lecture will be given by Sir Patrick Vallance, Chair of The Natural History Museum, and former Government Chief Scientific Adviser. The lecture will explore aligning nature with climate and policy.
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED but will be livestreamed via the CSAP website. Please do not attend the venue unless you have registered and your place has already been confirmed.
The Christ's College Climate Lecture is held in collaboration with the Centre for Science and Policy, the Cambridge Zero Policy Forum, and the CSaP Policy Fellows Climate and Sustainability Cluster. The Climate and Sustainability Cluster is a new initiative which seeks to provide further opportunities for Policy Fellows working within the climate and sustainability space to meaningfully connect and to provide further opportunities for shared learning.
Patrick Vallance will explore the inextricably linked challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Building on the 2023 launch of CSaP’s Policy Fellows Climate and Sustainability Cluster, in partnership with the Natural History Museum, Sir Patrick will delve deeper into questions such as: How can we generate the same public and political attention for biodiversity as for net zero? What are the compelling narratives for action that resonate with people’s experiences? And how can nature be part of a unifying solution as we implement both the Paris Agreement and the Global Biodiversity Framework? As the dust settles on the COP28 climate conference, Sir Patrick will reflect on what this means for those who make and shape policy, and how policy must be turned into action. He will also discuss the role of natural history museums in engaging policymakers and wider publics in the stories of nature and climate in the context of a planetary emergency.
Climate Lecture Convenors:
Rob Doubleday (Executive Director of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge and Bye-Fellow of Christ’s College)
Simon McDonald (Lord McDonald of Salford, Master of Christ’s College)
Theresa Marteau (Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ’s College)
Daniel Field (Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, Department of Earth Sciences and Strickland Curator of Ornithology, University Museum of Zoology)