Climate’s Two Degrees of Separation

The year 2016 was the hottest on record, continuing the trend for a third year. A major extension of the West Antarctic ice sheet has broken off and Swiss glaciers continue to recede. Is there still time to limit warming to two degrees and, if not, how do we adapt?
This session will be followed by a special screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.

· Christiana Figueres, Convenor, Mission 2020, Switzerland
· Al Gore, Vice-President of the United States (1993-2001); Chairman and Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management, USA; Member of the Board of Trustees, World Economic Forum
· Hilaree O'Neill, Athlete, Protect our Winters, France
· Karuna Rana, Co-Founder and Executive Director, SIDS Youth AIMS
Hub (SYAH), Mauritius
· Konrad Steffen, Director, Professor in Climate and Cryosphere, ETH
Zurich, Switzerland
· Feike Sybesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM, Netherlands

Moderated by
· Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, USA

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