Kim Stanley Robinson is an award-winning American science fiction writer whose works incorporate themes of ecological sustainability. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the international bestselling Mars trilogy, and most recently, The Ministry for the Future, which explores the challenge of climate change. In 2008 he was named a “Hero of the Environment” by Time magazine, and has worked with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop, and UC San Diego’s Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.
CloseRoland Psenner is the President of EURAC Research and former president of the International Scientific Committee of Alpine Research. Roland is an expert in eutrophication and phosphorus cycling, bio-geochemistry of acidification, global change effects on lakes, aquatic microbial food webs, and ice ecosystems.
CloseAinun Nishat is Professor Emeritus at BRAC University and leads research projects in the field of climate change and environment with the Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research. He is a key member of the Climate Change Negotiation Team for Bangladesh and has represented Bangladesh at United Nations Climate Change Conferences since COP13 in Bali, Indonesia. He has worked on climate-related projects with the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, UNDP, and other international and intergovernmental organizations.
CloseDialogue for Our Future: A Call to Climate Action, will explore this question. In April 2022, join us online as the Dalai Lama and experts in climate and systems change discuss in granular detail the real-world actions anyone can take to help restore balance to the biosphere.
In his October 2020 book, Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama made an impassioned plea, calling on leaders everywhere to work together to save Earth from runaway climate change. Dialogue for Our Future will be an opportunity to evaluate global progress toward this goal, and to inspire individual and collective action.
Coming five months after the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Dialogue for Our Future will be an opportunity to highlight the urgency of action, examine the role individuals can play in transitioning away from carbon fuels, put a spotlight on the importance of climate-ethical behaviours, and chart a sustainable path toward solving one of the biggest challenges that humanity has ever faced.
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