💭 Our changing climate and the road ahead

Notes from a members briefing with Dr Emily Shuckhurgh

Hi,

Following a recent members-only briefing with inventor Bill Gross on how our sustainable future will be powered by renewable energy and innovations in energy storage, I was curious to delve deeper into the root causes and solutions to the grand challenge of climate change. That’s why I invited climate scientist and mathematician Dr Emily Shuckburgh to be my guest in the State of the Exponential briefing series.

I first met Emily in the 1990s. She now co-leads the Polar Oceans division at the British Antarctic Survey, which is focused on understanding the role of the polar oceans in the global climate system. Emily is a fellow of Darwin College, a member of the Faculty of Mathematics, an associate of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, an associate fellow of the Centre for Science and Policy, a member of the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment.

A new initiative led by Emily will be launched later this year at the University of Cambridge, a…