Edinburgh Climate Conference, February 26-27 2011

On the weekend of 26th and 27th February, Edinburgh University Economics Society will be hosting the Edinburgh Climate Conference in Appleton Tower.

This unprecedented major event will take a multi-disciplinary academic approach to climate change, looking at how Scotland can contribute to the global effort to tackle the problem.

Across the course of the two days, some of the most notable academics in the field, and a variety of local groups and businesses will come together with students and staff here at the University of Edinburgh, including our very own Stuart Sayer.

They will be looking at climate change from a variety of angles; the costs of inaction, Global solutions, the environmental policies of Scotland and the UK, technologies to change the world, adaptive business solutions, and the things we can all do in our everyday lives to tackle climate change.

In addition to Stuart, speakers will include Dr Andy Kerr, Director of the Edinburgh Climate Change Centre and Nobel Prize winner Professor Gabi Hegerl. The full list of speakers and further details are available on the Conference website.

http://edinburghclimateconference.com/index.html

www.oured.ed.ac.uk

The event is entirely student organised and is designed for students from all disciplines and backgrounds. Student delegates will take away a holistic understanding of climate change, so that they can return to their speciality better informed so as to make effective decisions affecting all our futures.