LSE - Tsinghua University research seminar on climate change, food security, and health

16:00-17:30 Beijing time

LSE colleagues are invited to a hybrid research seminar between Tsinghua University and the London School of Economics and Political Science on climate change, food security, and health.

The objective of this research seminar is to promote knowledge sharing between LSE and Tsinghua University in addressing policy-relevant challenges at the climate-food-health nexus from the perspectives of China and the UK. We warmly welcome LSE staff and students to join this event virtually, which will be hosted in person at the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University.

This event is part of a collaborative research project on strengthening the resilience of food supply chains through international cooperation within the thematic area ‘Building sustainable societies’, supported under the LSE – Tsinghua University Sustainability Research Fund. The project team includes Alice Lei Bian (PI), Professor Elizabeth Robinson (Co-I), and Professor Deborah James, at the LSE; and Professor Wenjia Cai (PI), Yujuan Wang, PhD students Yihui Liu, Jianxiang Shen, and Hanyi Wu, and Professor Lan Xue, at Tsinghua University.

Agenda

LSE – Tsinghua University research seminar on climate change, food security, and health 

Chair: Dr Wenjuan Dong, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University

9:00 – 10:30 BST time/16:00-17:30 Beijing time 

9:00 – 9:10 Welcome remarks 

Professor Charles Stafford, Professor of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Global School of Sustainability, LSE (virtual attendance)

9:10 – 9:50 Two keynote presentations on climate change, food security, and health

• 9:10 – 9:30: Professor Cai Wenjia, Professor of Global Change Economics and assistant to Dean in Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University; Regional Director of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change for Asia
• 9:30 – 9:50: Professor Elizabeth Robinson, Professor of Environmental Economics at the Department of Geography and Environment, and Director of Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (currently on research leave), LSE  

9:50 – 10:00 Reflections and discussion on heat and health risks in London

Bob Ward, Policy and Communications Director and Interim Executive Director of the Just Transition Finance Lab, Grantham Research Institute; and Chair of the London Climate Ready Partnership (virtual attendance)

10:00 – 10:30 Q&A session

If you are interested in joining this event please email Gri.Events@lse.ac.uk.