Clare Hall Ashby Lecture 2013 - Lord Oxburgh - Energy, water, food and the nine billion
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| Description: | Lord Ronald Oxburgh is an eminent geologist and geophysicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society who has served at times as President of Queens’ College Cambridge, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Rector of Imperial College and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Ministry of Defence. He is also well known for his warnings on climate change. |
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| Created: | 2013-06-05 13:02 |
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| Collection: | ASHBY LECTURES - CLARE HALL |
| Publisher: | Clare Hall |
| Copyright: | Clare Hall |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Keywords: | Ashby Lecture; Clare Hall; climate change; Energy; |
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| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
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| Abstract: | Clare Hall’s Ashby Lecture was given on 23rd May 2013 by Lord Oxburgh, FRS, former Chairman of Shell UK and former Rector of Imperial College. A graduate of Oxford and Princeton, Lord Oxburgh is a geologist and geophysicist. At Cambridge he was head of the Department of Earth Sciences and President of Queens’ College. In 2004/5 Lord Oxburgh was a non-executive Chairman of Shell and was remarkable for his position on climate change, campaigning for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Lord Oxburgh was made a Life Peer in 1999 and chaired the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology for some years.
Clare Hall has hosted the Ashby Lectures since 1985, a widely acclaimed summer event in Cambridge. Named after one of the founders of Clare Hall, a former Master of Clare College and Vice Chancellor of the University, the lectures focus on the presentation and discussion of ideas that inspire human values in a wider sense: values that relate, in compelling and contemporary ways, to philosophical questioning about the nature of life and society. Lord Ashby pioneered the modern study of environmental policy-making in the UK. |
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