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Solve Climate By 2030: Birkbeck Green Recovery/Climate Solutions/Just Transition Webinar

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This webinar is part of the https://www.solveclimateby2030.org/ initiative where colleges and universities world-wide host events that that discuss how the climate crisis can be mitigated. The Birkbeck SolveClimateBy2030 webinar will consider engagements with the seas from various cultural and scientific perspectives, including a focus on green recovery plans to “build back better” and how Britain’s seas will play a central role in this. Our speakers will reflect on this question from different points of view and disciplinary backgrounds.

- Ayşe Demirer works as Environmental Specialist in the offshore wind development team at RWE Renewables UK. Ayşe is a graduate of Birkbeck’s MSc in Business Strategy and the Environment / Climate Change and will focus on how careful offshore wind farm planning and environmental impact assessments play a key role in protecting marine ecosystems.

- Dr James L. Smith is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Ports, Past and Present project at University College Cork. He works at the intersection of the blue, environmental, spatial and digital humanities and is particularly interested in how coastal communities respond to change.

- Dr Richard Hamblyn is Senior Lecturer in Birkbeck’s Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing. Richard is an award-winning environmental writer and historian and his previous work include the award-winning monograph The Invention of Clouds. He has just completed his new book The Sea: Nature and Culture that explores the many physical and cultural meanings of the oceans.

This is an online event that will be hosted on Microsoft Teams. Please be sure to book your place so that you can receive the unique URL you shall require to join the session.

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