'Immediate action' needed on climate change- Norfolk research group
The University of East Anglia based 'Tyndall Centre' is celebrating it's 25th birthday with a multi-day conference on how to tackle the issue
A local climate change expert says the county's focusing on immediate action needed to tackle the rising impact of climate change.
It's as a 3-day conference led by Norwich's 'Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research', gets underway, which looks to assess the challenges at play.
Over 300 people will be attending this event- including experts from the UK, Europe and Africa, the UK and French Climate Change Committees.
"That alone is massive"
The group is 25 years old and headed up by Asher Minns:
"One of the great things now is that climate change is common-knowledge, it really wasn't when we started out, it was more something that atmospheric physicists focussed on. So, that alone is massive".
"This decade was supposed to be the one where global carbon emissions peaked and they started to come down.
"You don't have to be doing climate change research to know that global emissions are going up. While UK and European emissions are going down.
"Since the Paris Climate Change agreement of 2015, we have seen a lot of activity on reducing those emissions. However, we've also seen the need to respond to the serious impacts of climate-change.
"One of the most clear and obvious examples of that, is that this year is the hottest one on record".
The conference's plan and schedule in more detail:
The conference will address four research themes:
• What are the emergent and urgent transitions in this ‘critical’ decade?
• How can climate action align with Paris commitments?
• What are the barriers and enablers to delivering climate action at scale?
• How to build and sustain coalitions for climate action?
Session topics include: the issues around decarbonising the economy; climate change, health and wellbeing; wildfires; social change for climate action; and what needs to be done differently for climate action.