'We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator' (António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General speaking at COP 27). Successive COPs have revealed a lack of will among the world's governments to make commitments that they'll actually stick by. So increasingly, people who aren't in government feel it’s down to them to do something. Every institution and organization of any size, it seems, has an environmental policy, and it falls to HR, L&D and educators of all stripes to communicate these policies. Learning professionals are therefore heavily involved in the response to the climate emergency. In this episode, John discusses with a distinguished climate scientist exactly where we are with controlling climate change and how best learning professionals can contribute. Robert Nicholls is Professor and Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, based at the University of East Anglia. He has contributed extensively to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC). His particular focus is the implications of sea-level rise, especially on coastal areas. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and is the co-editor of six books.

• 0:00 - Intro
• 3:18 - The state of climate change
• 9:55 - Warming in coastal areas
• 14:02 - Effect of the energy crisis
• 23:50 - Confidence in engineering solutions
• 28:59 - Learning Departments' response
• 32:14 - Impact of grassroots activities
• 34:31 - What's improving?

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• Website (Personal): https://www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/about/staff/rjn.page
• Website (Tyndall Centre): https://tyndall.ac.uk/people/robert-nicholls/
• Email: robert.nicholls@uea.ac.uk

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