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Welcome to the Oxford Climate Forum: Autumn 2014!

Since its inauguration in 2010, the Oxford Climate Forum has established itself as a key event on the Oxford Hub calendar, growing to become the largest student-run climate change conference in the

UK.

This edition of the Forum comes at a significant point for the climate movement. Only weeks ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate

Change released the final part of its fifth assessment report— the most comprehensive assessment to date of the science of climate

change, its impacts and potential solutions. Next autumn, the world’s governments will meet in Paris to negotiate a new global climate deal.

How should we communicate the latest scientific evidences about climate change? How can we break the political deadlock over climate

change action? What can we do between now and Paris to drive climate action forward?

The theme for this year’s forum is “Individual, Community, World: ACTION.’’ Climate change is a global phenomenon, but we can - and must - take action at all levels to make a difference. From individual decisions to community organisation to international policies, every

action has the potential to shape our future. We hope our conference will act as a focal point, bringing students, professionals, academics

and business together to understand, empower and effect the change required to meet the most significant challenges of the 21st century.

Whatever your interests, we trust that the panels and presentations of this Climate Forum will stimulate and engage you. Most

importantly, we hope they inspire you to take small but crucial actions to strengthen the momentum of the global movement for climate

action in Paris 2015— and beyond.

Enjoy the Oxford Climate Forum: Autumn 2014!

The Oxford Climate Forum: Autumn 2014 Committee

CONTENTS3. Timetable: Friday 21st November 4. Timetable: Saturday 22nd November5. Keynote Speakers9. Food Security & Sustainability10. Communication: Challenges & Opportunities11. Transport & Sustainable Cities12. Politics of Carbon Management13. Private Sector: Responsibility & Engagement14. Outreach, Activism & Education15. Research & Policy 16. Fossil Fuel Divestment17. Sponsors

The Oxford Climate Forum is organised by student volunteers from Oxford University with support from the

Oxford Hub. This year’s committee consisted of:

Co-ordinator: Richard MillarVice-Coordinator: Matthew Drane

Treasurer: James LamSpeaker Relations: Dakota McCoy

Sponsorship, PR & Press: Marie-Therese PngMarketing: Iona Richards

Committee Members: Rosa Dean, Anna Wharton, Zhi Yuan Wong, Sarah O’Keefe

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FRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER

Time

5.00 - 5.25

5.25 - 5.30

5.30 - 6.15

6.15 - 7.00

7.00 - 7.15

7.15 - 7.45

7.45 - 8.30

Event

Arrival & Registration

Welcome from the committee

Food Security & SustainabilityTara Garnett, Lord John Krebs, Lyndsey Knight

Communication: Challenges and OpportunitiesJohn Alker, Juliet Davenport, Rachel Stancliffe

Break

Report Launch: Adam Corner with “Young Voices” on Climate Change

Keynote Speech: Bob Ward

Our main room in use on Friday & Saturday is L1. On Saturday we have two panel discussions which will run parallel in L2; these

events are marked on the timetable.

The lobby space connecting L1 and L2 will be a space for informal discussion and a location to meet a variety of environmental

organisations.

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SATURDAY 22ND NOVEMBERTime

9.30 - 10.00

10.00 - 10.30

10.30 - 11.00

11.00 - 11.10

11.10 - 12.10

12.10 - 12.40

12.40 - 1.30

1.30 - 2.30

2.30 - 3.20

3.20 - 3.30

3.30 - 4.15

4.15 - 4.30

4.30 - 5.00

5.00 - 6.00

Event

Arrival & Registration

Keynote Speech: Sam Bickersteth“Transitioning to Climate Compatible Development”

Transport Studies and Sustainable CitiesDavid Banister, Melissa Sterry, Charlie Luxton

Break

Keynote Speech: Chris Llewellyn-Smith“Can Future Energy Needs Be Met Sustainably?”

Keynote Speech: Lord Anthony Giddens“The Politics of Climate Change 2014: What Cause for Hope?”

Lunch

Politics of Carbon Management Lord Anthony Giddens, Myles Allen, Tim Stone

Finance and Climate ChangeChristian Leitz, Ioannis Ioannou

Outreach, Activism, and Education (L2)Charlie Nicholson, Ed Dowding

Break

Scientific Research and Environmental PolicyGideon Henderson, Tim Stone, Sari Kovats

Fossil Fuel Divestment (L2)Louise Hazan, Antoine Thalmann

Presentations from local, Oxford-based community organizations

Break, including refreshments

Skype Address and Q&A: Kumi Naidoo 3 4

Dr Adam Corner “Young Voices” on Climate Change: Report Launch

Dr Adam Corner is COIN’s (Climate Outreach & Information Network) Research Director, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University. He specialises in the psychology of communicating climate change, and writes regularly for national media including the Guardian and New Scientist.

COIN has recently released ‘Young Voices’, a major new report looking at young people’s attitudes to climate change. It is the first study to ask young people themselves how to engage their peers more effectively, and to propose and test new climate change narratives specifically designed to engage 18-25 year olds.

Bob Ward is the Director of Communications and Policy at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Bob is a prominent voice on climate change in the media and regularly highlights occasions where the mainstream media gives false bias in the climate change debate. Bob is also a prolific tweeter and is challenging famous climate skeptical voices through the medium.

Bob Ward

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Sam BickerstethTransitioning to Climate Compatible Development

Sam has been CEO of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) since January 2011. He is responsible for the Anglo-Dutch CDKN programme which supports decision-makers in designing and delivering climate compatible development. CDKN is now operating 160 projects in 70 developing countries providing support around policies and planning, climate finance, climate related disasters and negotiations support. Sam has a background in international development, natural resources and climate change, having previously worked for DFID and Oxfam. From 2006 to 2010 he was head of programme policy at Oxfam and prior held various leadership positions in DFID including a period as Head of DFID Bolivia. Sam has worked in Africa, South Asia and Latin America in his roles as researcher, policy adviser and programme manager.

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Sir Chris Llewellyn-SmithCan Future Energy Needs Be Met Sustainably?

Chris Llewellyn Smith is Director of Energy Research at Oxford University, and President of the Council of SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East). He has chaired the Council of ITER, the global fusion energy project, directed the UK’s fusion programme, and served as Provost and President of University

College London, Director General of CERN (1994-1998, when the Large Hadron Collider was approved and construction started), and Chairman of Oxford Physics.

Lord Anthony GiddensThe Politics of Climate Change 2014:

What Cause for Hope?

Kumi Naidoo became Greenpeace International Executive Director in 2009. Kumi Naidoo has worked closely with Greenpeace for a number of years. He was involved in the development of Greenpeace’s work in Africa and became a board member of Greenpeace Africa when it opened offices in Johannesburg and Kinshasa in 2008. More recently, he served as Chair of the civil society alliance ‘Global Campaign for Climate Action’ (GCCA), of which Greenpeace was a founding member.

Kumi NaidooSkype Address with Q&A

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Lord Anthony GiddensThe Politics of Climate Change 2014:

What Cause for Hope?

Lord Anthony Giddens is a Fellow of King’s College Cambridge and Emeritus Professor at the London School of Economics. He was Director of the LSE from 1997 to 2003, and was made a member of the House of Lords in 2004. Lord Giddens

has honorary degrees or comparable awards from 21 universities. In 1984 he co-founded the publishing house Polity Press, which today produces 150 titles a year. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999, and was awarded the ‘Spanish Nobel Prize’, the Prince of Asturias Award, in 2002.

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Food Security & SustainabilityProfessor Lord John Krebs is Principal of Jesus College and a Professor in the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. He did his BA and DPhil at Pembroke College Oxford, and has held academic posts at the University of British Columbia and the University of Wales. His field of research lies at the interface between ecology, behaviour and evolutionary biology: his text book

“An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology” is now in its 4th edition and is the standard text in its field. In addition to his academic work, he has served as Chief Executive of the UK Natural Environment Research Council and the founding Chairman of the UK Food Standards Agency.

Lord John Krebs

Tara Garnett is based at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford, is a fellow of the Oxford Martin School and runs the Food Climate Research Network. She has worked on food issues for over 20 years, first in the NGO community and, since 2005 within the academic sector.

Dr Tara Garnett

Lyndsey Knight believes that anyone, anywhere should have access to good, local food, and she won’t stop until that happens. With a background in communications, Lyndsey has worked in Oxford, Melbourne, Edinburgh, London and Bristol, and is now mapping the world’s food system with FoodTrade.

Lyndsey Knight

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CommunicationDr Adam Corner (See page 5)

John AlkerJohn has been working at UK-Green Building Council (UK-GBC) since shortly after its launch in 2007. He leads on programme strategy, policy, government relations, campaigns and communications, and led the development of UK-GBC’s current 3 year strategic plan. John regularly works in conjunction

with the World GBC and authored the high profile 2014 global report on health, wellbeing and productivity of office occupiers.

Juliet DavenportJuliet was appointed Chief Executive of Good Energy Group and Good Energy in 2002. Juliet started her career in renewable energy at Energy for Sustainable Development Ltd (ESD) in 1995 and became an Executive Director of ESD (now CAMCO) and of its sister investment company ESD Ventures Ltd in 1996. Juliet has an MA from Oxford and an MSc from Birkbeck College, London.

Rachel StancliffeRachel Stancliffe is founding Director of The Campaign for Greener Healthcare, now renamed The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, which she started with Muir Gray in 2008 to help transform healthcare for a sustainable future. She graduated from Oxford in Human Sciences and then received an MSc in demography and epidemiology from the London School of Economics.

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Transport & Sustainable CitiesDavid Banister is Professor of Transport Studies at the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) and Director of the Transport Studies Unit, and a Fellow of St Anne’s College. Until 2006, he was Professor of Transport Planning at University College London, and has recently been the first Benelux BIVET-GIBET Transport Chair (2012-2013). He has published extensively on transport, cities and sustainable development, including authoring and editing 24 books.

Prof. David Banister

Design Scientist and Futurist Melissa Sterry is known as a champion of new science, technology and thinking that serves to make the world a better place. A visiting fellow/lecturer and guest critic at several leading architecture and design research institutes, she has been published in over 60 titles worldwide.

Melissa Sterry

Charlie LuxtonCharlie Luxton is passionate about sustainability and architecture. He has spent the last 10 years designing and building sustainable buildings, making television programmes about architecture and design, working on environmental community projects, and giving talks on all aspects of sustainability. He is interested in creating architecture fit for the 21st century; designs that respond to local materials, traditions and climate.

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Politics of Carbon ManagementTransport & Sustainable CitiesLord Anthony Giddens (See page 8)

Prof. Myles AllenMyles Allen is one of the world’s leading climate scientists. His work has pioneered the techniques used to detect and attribute human influence on the climate system. He also founded climateprediction.net, the world’s largest climate modelling experiment, that currently investigates attributing the role of human-induced climate change on

extreme weather events. Myles has also developed the cumulative carbon budgets framework that was central to last year’s IPCC report. It is this work, revealing how much already-discovered carbon must never enter the atmosphere to prevent dangerous climate change, that leads him to being an advocate of a very prominent position for carbon capture and storage as a climate solution.

Dr Timothy StoneTim is the senior expert non-executive member of the Board of the European Investment Bank, a non-executive director of the Anglian Water Group and a non-executive director of Horizon Nuclear Power. He is also a member of a number of advisory boards for infrastructure investors and funds. He advises a number of foreign governments as well as some global nuclear businesses on their developing nuclear programs and opportunities and also advises some of the world’s largest infrastructure investors.

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Outreach, Activism & EducationPrivate Sector

Dr Christian LeitzDr Christian Leitz is an executive director and secretary to the UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee (CRC), one of the five Board of Directors committees. Christian assists the Committee’s Chair in putting together the agenda for the Committee and prepares the accompanying documentation. The CRC supports the firm’s Board in fulfilling its duty to safeguard and advance

the Group’s reputation for responsible corporate conduct and to assess developments in stakeholder expectations and their possible consequences for UBS.

Dr Ioannis IoannouIoannis Ioannou is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. (magna cum laude) from Yale University. His research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), exploring how environmental, social and corporate governance strategies are strategically adopted, effectively embedded and successfully implemented by companies.

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Outreach, Activism & Education

Charlie is the Director and Centre Manager for Camp Kernow, a centre in the Cornish countryside where children can discover and explore the natural environment and engage with sustainability in a hands-on way. Charlie founded Camp Kernow along with Claire Coombe. Camp Kernow offers day visits and residential courses where children can learn about sustainable living and renewable energy in a safe and fun

environment. Charlie also leads programmes in local schools and teaches children green woodworking skills.

Charlie Nicholson

Ed Dowding believes that this perfect storm of climate change, the magicisation of technology, and the market failure of capitalism gives us the most brilliant opportunity to recreate the world. The big question he wants to find answers to is: what shall we put in its place? He has been creating tech-enabled social collaboration systems for the last dozen years: from international insurance, to London’s emergency management system, and most recently to mapping the food system. He’s now launching www.represent.cc.

Ed Dowding

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Research & Policy

Gideon is a geochemist working to understand the long-term operation of the climate system and the carbon cycle. His research relies on geological records of past climates, and on chemical measurements of the modern ocean. He seeks to understand components of the climate system with particular relevance to the future, including changes in rainfall, sea level, permafrost, and ocean circulation. Gideon is Head of Department of the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at University College. He has a degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Geochemistry from the University of Cambridge.

Prof. Gideon Henderson

Dr Timothy Stone (See page 12)

Sari Kovats is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Social & Environmental Health Research, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the leading research institution on public health in the UK. Sari has a PhD in environmental epidemiology and her research interests are primarily on methods to assess the health impacts of weather, climate and climate change. Sari was Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 23 on Europe in the Fifth Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2014). She has also co-authored several key scientific assessments on climate change and health at national and regional levels.

Dr Sari Kovats

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Louise is a leading digital campaigner and environmental activist. She works at the European arm of 350.org, one of the world’s leading environmental organisations and creator of the global fossil fuel divestment movement that has had huge success in North America and is now rapidly expanding across Europe. Louise founded Fossil

Free UK, the UK’s fossil fuel divestment campaign at UK universities under the People & Planet banner, and has also previously worked at Friends of the Earth. As one of the leading lights in the UK divestment campaign, Louise will be leading our panel discussion on the power of divesting from fossil fuels as a political action to stimulate climate change action.

Louise Hazan: 350.org

Antoine Thalmann: Push Your ParentsThe goal of the Push Your Parents (PYP) Campaign is to get pension funds – who should have a long term perspective and who are, collectively, very powerful influencers of corporations – to become the active stewards they should be and play the role they can in moving our economy to a low carbon path. Antoine is striving to develop the campaign nationally and internationally. He graduated from a masters in Economics at Oxford last June and now works in economic consulting. He wants to transform our economic and political system into one that empowers people and safeguards their interests.

Fossil Fuel Divestment

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Our Sponsors & PartnersThis year’s Oxford Climate Forum would not have been

possible without the help of our partners and sponsors. We would like to express our thanks for their generous support.

The St John’s College JCR are proud to be able to support this year’s Oxford Climate Forum, as we feel that it is

vital to demonstrate that we take our role in the future stewardship of the environment seriously. We have a

strong commitment to ethical and environmental issues, and our student body is working to improve awareness

of the implications of our actions and actively trying to minimise the negative impact we have, through

initiatives such as attaining College FAIRTRADETM status and divestment from unethical companies.

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