Planet Under Pressure conference
The British Science Association is working with Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Sciencewise-ERC to prepare 12 talented young people to attend the prestigious Planet Under Pressure conference.
Over 2,500 researchers from across the world will attend this 4-day conference in London in March 2012.
The conference will focus on environmental change and the global sustainability challenge, covering topics from food, energy and water security to international development & urban environments.
The 12 young people will make a short speech as part of the conference’s opening ceremony in which they will present young people’s views on these topics and their importance – and the conference itself will respond in their end-of-conference statement.
The conference will report to Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, in June 2012. We hope that involving young people in the Planet Under Pressure conference will change the way they think about these issues – and will change the way we all think about them too.
This project is supported by the Royal Society, Research Councils UK and Sciencewise.
Over 2,500 researchers from across the world will attend this 4-day conference in London in March 2012.
The conference will focus on environmental change and the global sustainability challenge, covering topics from food, energy and water security to international development & urban environments.
The 12 young people will make a short speech as part of the conference’s opening ceremony in which they will present young people’s views on these topics and their importance – and the conference itself will respond in their end-of-conference statement.
The conference will report to Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, in June 2012. We hope that involving young people in the Planet Under Pressure conference will change the way they think about these issues – and will change the way we all think about them too.
This project is supported by the Royal Society, Research Councils UK and Sciencewise.
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