Green Festival on Climate Change
Sunday 25th January 11:00am, Kensington
Through our friends at Intelligence Squared, Pi has secured some complimentary tickets to attend the Green Festival on Climate Change. This event will take place at The Royal Geographical Society on the 25th January 2009 from 11am – 6:30 pm. Either come for the day or stop in for a debate or two. Intelligence Squared is bringing together some of the most expert, authoritative and controversial voices on climate change to debate the scientific, economic and social dimensions of global warming. Climate change is now back on the agenda after Obama’s first official pronouncements last week. The festival takes place just after Obama takes office and just before Davos. www.iq2greenfestival.com
International speaker list includes:
- Professor Mohan Monasinghe – Vice Chairman, UN IPCC and joint Nobel Peace laureate with Al Gore in 2007
- Sir David King – Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University
- Professor Robert Watson - DEFRA’s Chief Scientific Advisor
- Tony Juniper - Special advisor to the Prince’s Rainforests Trust, former Executive Chairman of Friends of the Earth UK
- Alex Michealis - Architect who greened David Cameron’s home and proponent of ocean thermal energy conversion
- Doug Richard - Former Dragon on BBC’s Dragons’ Den, clean tech investor
- Mark Woodall – CEO, Climate Change Capital
- Dr. Steve Koonin – Chief Scientist, BP
- Christine Loh – Former Hong Kong politician, co-founder of Civic Exchange, one of TIME magazine’s ‘Heroes of the Environment’
- Ben Saunders – Polar explorer
- Jonathon Counsell – Head of Environment, British Airways
- Professor Philip Stott - Professor for Biogeography at The School of Oriental & African Studies, vocal climate change sceptic
- Jeremy Leggett – Founder of Solarcentury, described as “The UK’s most respected green energy boss”
- Fiona Harvey - Environment Correspondent, Financial Times
RSVP to Nicola Middleton if you are interested inattending.
Nicola Middleton
nm@picapital.co.uk
020 7529 5662