National Emergency Briefing: The Westminster Presentations
Saturday 7 March, 12.30-3pm, FREE
Lewes Climate Hub, 32 High Street, BN7 2LU
At a landmark event in Westminster last November, 10 of the UK’s leading scientists, economists and national security advisers briefed an invited audience of over 1,200 politicians and leaders on the implications of the climate and nature crisis for UK health, food systems, national security, the economy and the natural world.
Come and watch five of the presentations (each 12 mins each) from this historic event and discuss how we should be responding to these risks, nationally and locally. (Feel free to drop in for the presentations of most interest to you.)
- 12.30pm – NATURE – Professor Nathalie Seddon, Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford, outlines the extent of nature depletion and the economic and security shocks that could lead to.
- 1.00pm – FOOD – Professor Paul Behrens, expert in food system transformations, on what weather extremes means for our ability to farm and what needs to be done to safeguard food supply and security.
- 1.30pm – TIPPING POINTS – Professor Tim Lenton, Founding Director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, looks at the likelihood of climate change ‘tipping points; triggering multiple, interacting crises – but also the potential for ‘positive tipping points such as clean technologies and social change driving rapid transformation
- 2.00pm – HEALTH – Professor Hugh Montgomery, Director of the Centre for Human Health at University College London explores the health hazards of climate change and the opportunities to improve health and reduce NHS costs by taking climate action.
- 2.30pm – NATIONAL SECURITY – Lt General Richard Nugee, Senior British Army Officer (retired), on climate change as a core national security threat, driving instability, global competition for food, water and other resources and the potential for a cascade of crises.