BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Cambridge Centre for Climate Science: Understanding the Paris Clim ate Summit (COP21) - Emily Shuckburgh\, Prof. John Pyle\, Sir David King\, Prof. Sir Richard Friend DTSTART:20151116T140000Z DTEND:20151116T180000Z UID:TALK61095@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Dr Dan Jones DESCRIPTION:Scientific and political context for the upcoming climate summ it: Hopes and expectations for the Paris Protocol meeting.\n\nThe 21st Ses sion of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Conv ention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11) will be held from November 30th to December 11th in Paris. COP21 will be a crucial conference\, as it needs t o achieve a new international agreement on the climate\, applicable to all countries\, with the aim of keeping global warming below 2°C. \n\nThis CCfCS event aims to provide insight into the scientific and political land scape leading up to COP21 and beyond.\n\n"Open to all\, but space is limit ed so please register in advance here":http://goo.gl/forms/CcsmVmdg3Y\n\nP rogramme:\n\n14:00 Introduction\n\n14:05 *Dr Emily Shuckburgh*\, British A ntarctic Survey\n\n"Climate science: a personal view of what we know and w hat we don't know"\n\n14:50 *Professor Sir Richard Friend*\, Department of Physics\, University of Cambridge\n\n"Energy – Lessons from nature"\n\n 15:35 Tea/coffee break\n\n16:00 *Professor John Pyle*\, Department of Chem istry\, University of Cambridge\n\n"Why the Montreal Protocol worked"\n\n1 6:45 *Sir David King*\, UK Special Representative for Climate Change\n\n"C limate science and global politics\, through Paris 2015 and beyond"\n\n17: 30 Discussion/reception\n\n----------\n\n*Speaker Biographies:*\n\n*Dr Emi ly Shuckburgh* is a climate scientist and is deputy head of the Polar Ocea ns division at the British Antarctic Survey\, which is focused on underst anding the role of the polar oceans in the global climate system. She hold s a number of positions at the University of Cambridge (fellow of Darwin C ollege\, member of the Faculty of Mathematics\, associate of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research\, associate fellow of the C entre for Science and Policy\, member of the Cambridge Forum for Sustaina bility and the Environment and fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sust ainability Leadership). In the past she has worked at Ecole Normal Superie ure in Paris and at MIT. She is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Socie ty and co-chair of their Climate Science Communications Group\, a trustee of the Campaign for Science and Engineering and a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Science s. She has also acted as an advisor to the UK Government on behalf of the Natural Environment Research Council.\n\n*Professor Sir Richard Friend* is the Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and Dir ector of the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability at the Ca vendish Laboratory. He has pioneered the physics\, materials science and engineering of semiconductor devices made with carbon-based semiconductin g polymers and has over 600 publications and 20 patents arising from this work.  His research group was the first to demonstrate using polymers e fficient operation of field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes and their work has revolutionised the scientific understanding of the ele ctronic properties of organic semiconductors\, which are now recognised to be very suitable for use in semiconductor devices. Sir Richard has co-fou nded a number of Cambridge start-up companies to exploit these development s. He has received many awards and prizes for his work\, including FRS in 1993\, the Europhysics Prize\, the Rumford Medal\, the Faraday Medal\, F REng in 2002\, the IOP Swan Medal and the Millennium Technology Prize.\n\ n*Professor John Pyle* obtained a BSc in Physics at Durham. His DPhil was in Oxford where he helped to develop a numerical model for stratospheric o zone studies. After a period at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory he move d to a lectureship at Cambridge University in 1985 and is currently the He ad of the Department of Chemistry and a Professorial Fellow at St Catharin e’s College. He has been a co-director of NERC’s National Centre for A tmospheric Science (NCAS) where he is now the Chief Scientist. His researc h focuses on the numerical modelling of atmospheric chemistry and chemistr y/climate interactions.He has published more than 250 peer reviewed papers . He played a major role in building an EU stratospheric research programm e in the 1990s\, coordinating several major field campaigns. He has contri buted to all the WMO/UNEP assessments on stratospheric ozone since the ear ly 1980s and is now one of the four international Co-Chairs on the Scienti fic Assessment Panel\, responsible for these assessments. He was a conveni ng lead author in the IPCC Special report “Safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate system”\, published in 2006. His work on stratosp heric ozone was recognized by NERC’s International Impact Award and Over all Impact Award in 2015\, jointly with Dr Neil Harris. He was elected Fel low of the Royal Society in 2004 and an AGU Fellow in 2011. Other honours and awards include membership of Academia Europaea (1993)\, Royal Society of Chemistry (Interdisciplinary award\, 1991\, and John Jeyes lectureship\ , 2008) and the Royal Meteorological Society Adrian Gill Prize\, in 2004.\ n\nThe Foreign Secretary appointed *Sir David King* as his new permanent S pecial Representative for Climate Change in September 2013. Sir David was previously the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 – 2007\ , during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the Energy Technologie s Institute. He also served as the Founding Director of the Smith School o f Enterprise and Environment at Oxford\; was Head of the Department of Che mistry at Cambridge University 1993-2000 and Master of Downing College at Cambridge 1995 -2000.  Sir David has published over 500 papers on science and policy\, for which he has received numerous awards\, and holds 22 Hon orary Degrees from universities around the world. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991\, a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts a nd Sciences in 2002 and knighted in 2003\, Sir David was also made an Offi cier of the French Legion d’Honneur’ in 2009\, for work which has cont ributed to responding to the climate and energy challenge. \n\n\n-------- --\n LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR