Event Start Date: 12 June 2021

In June 2021, Somerville hosted a climate change symposium online, The Climate Change Emergency: Can Somerville Make a Difference. 
There were 2 sessions broadly covering the science of climate change (session 1) and the policy response (session 2).

Session 1

Professor Joanna Haigh, Emeritus Professor of atmospheric physics at Imperial College London
Dr Michelle Jackson, Associate Professor of Freshwater/Marine Ecology Department of Zoology; tutorial fellow Somerville
Dr Radhika Khosla, Research Director, Oxford India Centre; Associate Professor Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Professor Camilla Toulmin, Professor in Practice Lancaster Environment Centre

Session 2

Dr Farhana Yamin, Environmental lawyer and activist
Julie Baddeley, Chair and Founder of Chapter Zero
Clare Hatcher, Consultant, Clyde&Co LLP
Dr Niels Kroner, Co-founder and Director Green Hedge

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