[SGRupdate] News from SGR – November 2020

[Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)]

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News from Scientists for Global Responsibility – November 2020

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1. SGR's Responsible Science conference and AGM 2020 - last chance to register!
2. Scientists welcome key milestone for nuclear weapons ban treaty - media
release


1. SGR's Responsible Science conference and AGM 2020 - last chance to register!

* Transition Now:
Recovering from Covid-19, will responsible science and technology be tools of
rapid change?

- Webinar I: Responsible science and the climate emergency
Wednesday 4 November 2020; 17:00

Presentations:

- What would it look like if we treated the climate emergency as seriously as
Covid-19? - Prof Alice Larkin, University of Manchester

- Overconsumption, the climate emergency and the scientific community - why is
it so hard to talk about? - Prof Julia Steinberger, University of Leeds

- Hacking the Earth - what could possibly go wrong with geoengineering? - Prof
Bill McGuire, University College London

- Kicking out Big Oil: lessons from the campaign to remove fossil fuel
interests from cultural institutions and science museums - Jess Worth, Culture
Unstained

For more details and to register, see:
https://www.sgr.org.uk/events/transition-now-part-i


- Webinar II: Responsible technology and the climate emergency
Saturday 7 November 2020 (including SGR's AGM); 14:00

Presentations:

- What is the potential for rapid transition of the aviation industry after
Covid-19? - Dr Lucy Gilliam, Transport & Environment

- The hidden military implications of ‘building back’ with civil nuclear and
the industrial and environmental opportunities of alternative trajectories -
Dr Philip Johnstone, University of Sussex

- From arms, planes and racing cars to ventilators: industrial conversion
during the Covid-19 crisis - Dr Stuart Parkinson, Scientists for Global
Responsibility

- Lessons from finance and place-based dialogue on rapid, just transition -
Prof Nick Robins, Grantham Institute, London School of Economics

- Steam solar news presses and other stories in the history of renewable
energy - Dr Alice Bell, Possible

For more details and to register, see:
https://www.sgr.org.uk/events/transition-now-part-ii


2. Scientists welcome key milestone for nuclear weapons ban treaty - media
release

Scientists for Global Responsibility welcomes the 50th ratification of the UN
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – reached on 24th October – which
means the treaty will now enter in force on 22 January 2021.

Read media release:
https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/scientists-welcome-key-milestone-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty



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