Sheffield Regional Meeting :Response to the Climate Challenge Thurs 13 June

[Chris Broome]

 

Sheffield Climate Alliance and the City Council are arranging two meetings on the same day, as described below. The public one is in the evening, from 7-9pm. (Please check on our website or e-mail me, http://www.sheffieldclimatealliance.net/ , nearer the day for venue details).

 

This is an important time, with levels of CO2 in the atmosphere having hit 400 ppm of CO2. We are linking up with experts and political leaders to see how Sheffield City Region can respond. Prior to this event Sheffield City Region leaders will hear this presentation for themselves from 4 –6 pm and then some representatives will join the public meeting. Let’s make this a really packed event. Please also forward to friends and colleagues.

 

Building our Response to the Climate Challenge

 a public meeting co-organised with Sheffield City Council

Venue: Sheffield University/room details to follow

Thursday 13 June from 7 to 9 pm

Co-chaired by Councillor Jack Scott and the Sheffield Climate Alliance

Cllr Jack Scott is the Sheffield City Council Cabinet lead for the Environment and this meeting will form part of developing a Green Commission for Sheffield.

It is time to talk about Carbon, we have:

• 400ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere
• CO2 rising exponentially (see 1 below)
• Potential temperature rise of 4 to 6 degrees
• Threat of financial bust from £4 trillion invested in un-burnable carbon (see 2 below)

 

Speakers

 

Dr John Broderick:

from Tyndall Climate Centre at Manchester University presenting an update on current emissions trends, likely impacts and the action required to avoid them. http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/our-research/centres-institutes/tyndall-manchester/

Tyndall Manchester has been a Tyndall core partner since the centre’s inception in 2000, during which time it has led the research theme focusing on energy and climate change, based in the school of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering and with close affiliation to the Manchester Business School and the School of Environmental, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences. 

 

Prof Andrew Gouldson:
An author of The economies of Low Carbon Cities: a Mini-Stern for Sheffield City Region from The Centre for Low Carbon Futures. www.lowcarbonfutures.org 

The Centre for Low Carbon Futures co-ordinated a three year programme of research, led by Professor Andrew Gouldson at the University of Leeds, evaluating the potential economic returns of various low carbon measures. The ‘mini-Stern reviews’ for Leeds City Region, Sheffield City Region and the Humber convincingly demonstrate the potential social and economic benefits of low carbon investment. The research has consequently evolved into “10 Climate Smart Cities” (10CSC), a global programme of research led by Professor Gouldson to provide the evidence base for cost-effective low-carbon interventions for ten global cities.

1.    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/apr/19/carbon-bubble-financial-crash-crisis?INTCMP=SRCH

2.    The Burning Question: we can’t burn half the world’s oil, coal and gas, so how are we going to quit? Mike Berners-Lee and Duncan Clark. Profile Books 2013