UCL Minds Lunch Hour Lectures: Autumn 2021

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Date: 26 October 2021
Speaker: Mark Maslin, Professor of Earth System Science at UCL Geography Department

About the UCL lunch hour lecture:
Climate change is the most critical and controversial issue facing the world in the twenty-first century. Everyone agrees we must keep global warming to under 2˚C, and under 1.5˚C if possible. But how can we do this while dealing with the other great challenges of our age: global poverty, population growth, environmental degradation and global security. COP26 in Glasgow is almost upon us and Prof. Maslin shows us how we can save our Planet from climate change while improving everyone’s lives.

This event is part of UCL’s climate campaign ‘Generation One’.  Together we are the new generation taking responsibility for climate action and turning science into actionable ideas. 
Join our new era of climate action at ucl.ac.uk/generation-one

How To Save Our Planet

Date: Tuesday 2 November 2021
Speakers: 
Nadia Ameli, Principal Research Fellow at UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (UCL ISR)
Ashish Ghadiali, Activist-in-Residence at Sarah Parker Remond Centre, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
Dr Joshua Ryan-Collins, Head of Finance and Macroeconomics at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

About the UCL Lunch Hour Lecture:
The sustainable finance policy agenda has largely neglected the financial disadvantages faced by many low and middle income nations in addressing the ecological transition. Dr Joshua Ryan-Collins will consider what sort of reforms to the international financial system are needed to address this, including more restrictive financial regulation aimed at reducing ecologically-damaging financial flows, nature-based sovereign bonds, nature-linked central bank swap lines ecologically-linked special drawing rights (SDRs). Thinking about fairness in climate finance, Ashish Ghadiali will talk about the need to develop a holistic approach to what just climate action looks like, not decarbonisation alone. The developing world has been described as a potential "renewables powerhouse", but Nadia Ameli will discuss how lack of fair access to investment could create inescapable traps for the poorest countries.

This event is part of UCL’s climate campaign ‘Generation One’. Together we are the new generation taking responsibility for climate action and turning science into actionable ideas.
Join our new era of climate action at ucl.ac.uk/generation-one

How could fairer finance help us address Climate Change?

About the UCL East Lunch Hour Lecture:
Dr Qasim Rafiq will explore the challenges and opportunities of manufacturing advanced personalised therapies, and the impact these regenerative, curative treatments will have on the treating previous unmet clinical need. Dr Rafiq will discuss what advanced therapies are, how they will revolutionise healthcare and the challenges involved in manufacturing these novel therapeutics at a scale and cost that meets patient needs.
About the speaker:
Dr Qasim Rafiq is an Associate Professor in Cell and Gene Therapy Bioprocess Engineering. He is Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Chartered Scientist (CSci), a  Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and was recognised as one of the top 20 influential and inspirational individuals in Advanced Medicine for 2020 by The Medicine Maker listed amongst Nobel Laureates, multi-national CEOs and leading scientists.

How do we manufacture personalised medicines?

Date: Tuesday 16 November 2021
About the lecture:
The existential threat to humanity from Climate Change requires action at a scale and speed that can seem almost impossible, transitioning systems that have operated for decades on fossil fuels to a completely new paradigm. Aidan O’Sullivan will talk about how Artificial Intelligence is a natural ally and catalyst for this change and the fundamental characteristics of AI as a software technology are ideally suited to enable the scale and speed of action that we need to mitigate a climate disaster. Kate Jones will then look at whether AI can be useful for understanding climate change impacts and solutions and Geoff Mulgan will then discuss the potential of AI to combat climate change – but also and why we need radically different ways of organising data for the full benefits to be achieved and why AI needs to be combined with human collective intelligence.

About the speakers:
Kate Jones, Professor of Ecology and Biodiversity at Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, UCL
Sir Geoff Mulgan, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy & Social Innovation at University College London
Aidan O’Sullivan, Associate Professor in Energy and AI at UCL Energy Institute and Turing Fellow at Alan Turing Institute

This event is part of UCL’s climate campaign ‘Generation One’.  Together we are the new generation taking responsibility for climate action and turning science into actionable ideas. Join our new era of climate action at ucl.ac.uk/generation-one

AI - Climate Change friend or foe?

Date: 23 November 2021
About the lecture:
Marina Romanello will give an overview of the work of the Lancet Countdown on tracking the impacts of climate change on human health. Jenny Mindell will speak about active travel (walking, cycling and using public transport) and the way in which this reduced carbon emissions and provides numerous health benefits. Ilan Kelman will talk about the health impacts of migration and disasters under climate change, whereas Gesche Huebner will discuss mental health and climate change, a frequently overlooked yet crucial topic.

Speakers: 
Dr Marina Romanello, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Francis Crick Institute
Professor Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London
Professor Jenny Mindell, Professor of Public Health at University College London
Dr Gesche Huebner, Lecturer in Sustainable and Healthy Built Environments at Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources

Health and Climate Change: How can tackling Climate Change improve your health?

Professor Kate Jones and Dr Chris van Tulleken explain how human health is linked to the health of the planet, and how UCL climate and habitat research is helping doctors and policymakers predict (and maybe prevent) the next pandemic.

GUESTS
Professor Kate Jones, Centre for Biodiversity and Environmental Research, UCL
Dr Chris van Tulleken, Division of Infection and Immunity, UCL and Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/ref-hub/where-research-transforms-lives-podcast

Date of episode recording: 2022-07-04
Duration: 00:37:27
Language of episode: English
Presenter: Dr Rosie Anderson
Guests: Prof Kate Jones, Dr Chris van Tulleken
Editor: Patrick Robinson

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