National Emergency Briefing
We caught up with several of the speakers at the National Emergency Briefing held at the Westminster Central Hall. They'll be featured in the Climate Repair Café series but meanwhile, here's some excerpts from their interviews.
So my name's Hugh Montgomery, I'm Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at University College London in Great Britain. I'm also a Jobbing National Health Service Doctorate working in an intensive care unit. I do a lot of research, but I'm also very active in the climate space on the health impacts of climate change. Read more...
So I'm Professor Paul Behrens, I'm at the University of Oxford, and I work at the Oxford Martyrs' School. My research focuses on how to reduce the massive impacts of our food systems on the environment, but also how to improve the resilience of the food systems to all of the environmental damage that it's currently experiencing. So I'm thinking like losses due to climate change, due to nature loss, and how to enable food systems to become more resilient to the punches of climate change. Read more...
My name's Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, a long-time soldier, and I finished my time in (0:08) the military by writing the Climate Change and Sustainability Report for the Ministry of Defence (0:13) explaining why the Ministry of Defence should pay attention to climate change, and since then (0:20) I have done a number of talks and articles around the world talking about why militaries, (0:27) but more importantly, why national security is affected by climate change. Read more...
My name is Tim Lang, I'm Professor Emeritus of Food Policy at City St. George's University of London. I got interested in food when I was doing a PhD a long time ago in the very early 1970s, because it seemed to me it brought together so many complicated issues. If you don't address food, you are unlikely to address human health, environmental systems, the nature of work, culture, dynamics of future progress.. Read more...