Climate justice and sustainable development – an interactive discussion

Rayner Mayer – 29 June 2016 Dr Rayner Mayer (from Sciotech Projects and University of Reading) hosted a lively discussion on the ethics related to climate change. He introduced the following 3 topics, after which the audience debated the issues. Climate Justice: In the first section, Rayner introduced the concept of Climate Justice. He reminded …

Climate Change impacts on food security – learning from past shocks

Dr Jacob Bishop – 25 May 2016 Dr Jacob Bishop of the University of Reading University talked to us about “What is global food security?”: future global food security which will require more than just increasing crop production how global food might security be impacted by climate change extreme weather events using past examples of …

Carbon Pricing – so polluters pay and people profit

Clive Elsworth – 30 March 2016 On Wednesday 30th March the second in a series of ‘Reading climate forums’ discussed ‘carbon pricing’ – under which the cost of damage expected from global warming would be reflected in the price of fossil fuels. Speaker Clive Elsworth from the UK branch of the Citizens Climate Lobby www.facebook.com/CitizensClimateLobbyUK …