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Turning up the heat on climate and business

03/02/2009

Dr Stephen Edwards and Professor Bill McGuire, Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre

The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change clearly articulate why there is a need for society to reduce carbon emissions and to adapt to a warming climate. This is no longer fiction and some of the impacts of warming are now clearly evident. So where are we heading in this warming world and how should we be adapting? These are tough questions that can be answered to some extent by reconstructing past climate and modeling future climate. The resulting scenarios demonstrate that climate change has to managed through bold innovative actions that embrace the complexity, and associated uncertainty, of the interplay between natural processes, population and urban growth, energy demand, business activity and political will.

Dr Stephen Edwards will be presenting on the above topic at the AM Best Review & Preview conference.