讲座简介

Climate change is a unique problem in that an individual acting for the long-term good will see no benefit if differences in standards of living remain without similar behaviors adopted globally. The societal tipping points, like the global temperature limit, require modification of longer term trends of urbanization and related human wellbeing for keeping within ecological limits. Climate change as a social and not just a physical problem raises questions on the way transformations to sustainability are conceptualized, understood and analyzed.

主讲人简介

Prof. MUKUL SANWAL was closely associated with the drafting of India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change of India, and is a member of the Expert Committee on Strategic Knowledge on Climate Change set up by the Ministry of Science and Technology. He represented India at the Rio Conference in 1992 and for 15 years has been in the United Nations, as Policy Adviser to the Executive Director of UNEP and later to the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. He was a part of the group of scientists that contributed to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC.