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How do we stop our resource use driving climate change and biodiversity loss?

This event will focus on the often ignored contribution of resource use to climate change and nature decline. According to the UN, resource extraction and processing are responsible for 90 per cent of global biodiversity loss and half of all carbon emissions.

In a year when global leaders will meet at two vital summits to address both the climate and nature crises, it is vital that they understand the impacts of the current rate of resource use and plan to reduce it. As the host of the Glasgow climate change summit in November, the UK government should be leading on this agenda.

We will be launching a new report for Green Alliance’s Circular Economy Task Force at this event. The report calls for a much more ambitious and systemic approach to resource use, that learns the lessons from the UK’s world leading governance on climate change.

Chair:

• Lucy Siegle, environmental journalist

Speakers

• Dr Ashok Khosla OBE, chair, Development Alternatives, and former co-chair, International Resource Panel, UN Environment Programme

• Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, director, Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations, University of Bath

• Dr Colin Church, chief executive, Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining

• Libby Peake, head of resource policy, Green Alliance

The event will include a live Q and A with the panellists.

Mar 29, 2021 12:00 PM in London