Join a expert set of panelists for an engaging event covering what are the key obstacles to climate action!

We have a strong lineup featuring authors of IPCC reports and other academic experts in the Climate Field to discuss in an engaging session regarding Climate Action, followed by

Dr. Kennedy Mbeva

Research Associate at the Centre for Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge

Area of research: governance of global catastrophic risk, focusing on geoeconomics and catastrophic climate change

Contributed to the IPCC AR6

Working on chapter 4 of the AR7, Sustainable Development and Mitigation (Working group III)

Specific area of expertise is the global politics of just transitions

Served on Kenya’s official delegation to the UN Climate Change negotiations

Holds a PhD in International Relations (distinction) from the University of Melbourne, and has studied and worked in several continents, including Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia

Recent book: Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, co-authored).

Dr Ahmad Elabbar

Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science and Technology

His PhD involves an empirical and philosophical analysis of IPCC reports

He has also done research regarding the different kinds of subversion employed by, for example, the Trump Administration, to justify inaction against climate change/ further destructive activity

William Lamb

lead author of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, and paper on the rhetorical arguments used to justify climate inaction ("Discourses of Climate Delay")

Dr Ian Higam

Research Fellow in Environmental Politics at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute

global environmental politics with a focus on integrating human rights and climate policy

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