The Global Clean Energy Revolution

Sir David King will discuss the potential for global renewable energy and the steps needed to take full advantage of its transformative power.
 
As the UK’s Special Representative for Climate Change, his role is to use his expertise to develop a greater coherent effort in making sure that the UK works closely and effectively with other countries.
 
His current projects include work aiming to encourage greater global investment in low-carbon and renewable energy sources, and a recent report on climate risk, which aims to join the dots between climate science and policy responses. He will draw on this work in his talk, which should be of interest to policy makers, scientists, and everyone with an interest in climate change and solutions to it.
 
Sir David was previously the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 – 2007, during which time he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the Energy Technologies Institute. 
 
He also served as the Founding Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment at Oxford; was Head of the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University 1993-2000 and Master of Downing College at Cambridge 1995 -2000.
 
Sir David has published over 500 papers on science and policy, for which he has received numerous awards, and holds 22 Honorary Degrees from universities around the world.
 
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991, a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and knighted in 2003, Sir David was also made an Offi cier of the French Legion d’Honneur’ in 2009, for work which has contributed to responding to the climate and energy challenge.
 
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