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SUMMARY:“Remaking our future: how only a radically different approach wi
 ll solve the challenges of our times.” - Rob Shaw\, Director of Sustaina
 bility and Climate Change\, LDA Design
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CONTACT:Julie-Anne Hogbin
DESCRIPTION:The UK\, along with the rest of the world\, is facing an unpre
 cedented set of challenges: a rapid transition to a low carbon energy syst
 em\, climate change\, technological advancement and demographic change to 
 name but a few. Each will have profound implications for our economy\, com
 munities and environment. Successful responses demand that we think differ
 ently about how we use land\, create places\, deliver infrastructure and g
 enerate growth.\n\nWhile daunting\, these challenges place us at an immens
 ely exciting point in history. By bringing together the collective human c
 apital of business\, academia\, the public sector and communities we have 
 the opportunity to solve these problems in ways that are socially equitabl
 e and environmentally sustainable whilst ensuring that the economy works f
 or us.\n\nThis session will explore these issues and the opportunities for
  using our built environments\, landscapes and infrastructure in different
  ways and the delivery mechanisms we have at our disposal to make change h
 appen.\n\nRob leads LDA Design’s Futures and Solar teams. He is passiona
 te about understanding how places and societies are being shaped by the bi
 g global drivers of change. He has a vision for how climate change\, decen
 tralised energy and communication technologies are combining to fundamenta
 lly affect the way we use land\, deliver infrastructure and generate growt
 h.\n\nHe has become convinced that the next few decades will be a bumpy bu
 t an incredibly exciting time for societies.\n\nRob works with public\, pr
 ivate and community sectors to help them understand the spatial and organi
 sational implications of change. Rob has also led some of the largest and 
 most challenging of renewable energy projects across the UK on behalf of m
 any of the most successful developers. \n\nHe played a key role in develop
 ing early Government policy for supporting renewable energy and climate ch
 ange action and is currently working with clients who are pushing the boun
 daries of what is possible in a subsidy free transition to a low carbon ec
 onomy.\n\n
LOCATION:Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 027 (Anglia Ruskin University\, Camb
 ridge Campus)
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