BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19710101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19710101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130516T000000 UID:https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/?post_type=event&p=4243 DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/London:20240328T131839Z LOCATION:LSE DESCRIPTION:The unfolding human-made climate crisis seems almost surrealistic from a scientific perspective. As knowledge of a climate emergency improves\, policies change in ways that exacerbate rather than mitigate the situation. The tragedy is that actions needed to stabilise climate\, rather than being painful to society\, would have multiple benefits\, including stronger economies\, more good jobs\, and more equitable opportunities for individuals. If our governments continue to fail to advance effective policy\, thus causing continued extraction of every fossil fuel that can be found\, today's children\, future generations\, and nature will bear the consequences through no fault of their own. A variety of options for making governments do their job were discussed. Speaker: Dr James Hansen\, former director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)\, Adjunct Professor of Earth Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute\, and designated by Time Magazine\, in 2006\, as one of the world’s 100 most influential people Chair: Professor Sam Fankhauser