On 29th September the Science Council held its first ever policy conference entitled The Science Council Climate Conference – The UK Pathway to Net-Zero. The event brought together Science Council members and other organisations from across the science and engineering community to discuss how the UK can meet its targets for reducing emissions and reaching net-zero in the coming years.
The conference drew on the diverse expertise of member organisations, exploring in depth topics such as the challenges and opportunities in the food system, achieving net-zero in the steel industry and the role of hydrogen in balancing future supply and demand.
Speaking at the conference, Sir Patrick Vallance, Government Chief Scientific Adviser and National Technology Adviser, said: “Every year, we’re losing Arctic Sea ice and CO2 levels have dramatically increased since the industrial revolution. There are clearly unarguable changes that are occurring. Science and technology are undoubtedly central to what we need to do. We need to be focused on technologies that we can already see, technologies that we have already invented, and ask how do we work out which of those we can implement and scale.”
Videos of the livestreamed sessions can be found at:
Plenary Panel 1 – The UK’s Net-Zero Challenge, https://youtu.be/cCLGOmlQS-I
Keynote Address by Sir Patrick Vallance, https://youtu.be/CZx9jnQcmQ8
Plenary Panel 2 – The role of the UK science and engineering community,
and the full conference programme of the conference is available at,
https://sciencecouncil.org/web/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Climate-Conference-September-2022.pdf
To find out more about future events held by the Science Council and its professional body Members see their website: https://sciencecouncil.org/category/event/
