ETH Global Lecture Series: Healing our Future
23 September 2021 - Online Event - Join this dialogue between environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist Paul Hawken, and ETH Zurich climate scientist, researcher and IPCC author Sonia Seneviratne about the concept of regeneration.
Free public online event
Moderated by Chris Luebkeman, ETH Zurich
Thursday, 23 September 2021
16.30 - 17.30 Zurich (CEST)
The pandemic has forced us to rethink many aspects of our lives we otherwise took for granted. It has also illustrated that collective action can have an immediate, decisive impact. What if we were forced to rethink the normal dialogue relating to climate change in the same way? The urgency and potential risks to the very survival of humanity require us to drastically rethink our narrative in the same way. Given that so much has failed, where could we start? What should our number one priority be? Can we be inspired by concrete examples that illustrate what could be achieved collectively?
We will explore the concept of regeneration and discuss how a fundamental change of lifestyle could be a new way of reframing the current climate dialogue.
Join this timely dialogue between environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist Paul Hawken, and ETH Zurich climate scientist, researcher and IPCC author Sonia Seneviratne, moderated by Chris Luebkeman.
external page Paul Hawken starts ecological businesses, writes about nature and commerce, and consults with heads of state and CEOs on climatic, economic and ecological regeneration. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Talk of the Nation, Bill Maher, CBS This Morning, Charlie Rose, and others, and his work has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles in-cluding the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, Forbes, and Business Week. He has written eight books including five national and NYT bestsellers: Growing a Business, The Next Economy, The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest, and Drawdown. He is published in 30 languages and his books are available in over 90 countries. His latest book, Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming debuted April 18, 2017 as a NYT bestseller and is currently in seventeen other languages. He is the founder of Project Drawdown, which worked with over two hundred scholars, students, scientists, researchers, and activists to map, measure, and model the one hundred most substantive solutions that can cumulatively reverse global warming. He is the founder of Regeneration.org and completed his latest work, Regeneration, Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation, published by Penguin RandomHouse, September 14th in the US and UK.
Sonia I. Seneviratne is Professor for Land-Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich. She completed an MSc in Environmental Physics (1999) and a PhD thesis in Climate science (2003) at ETH Zurich. She was then a visiting researcher at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (2003-2004), in Greenbelt, Maryland (USA). After returning as senior scientist (Oberassistentin) at ETH Zurich, she was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences in 2007. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013, and Full Professor in 2016.
Prof. Sonia Seneviratne has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles. She is listed among the Highy cited researchers of Web of science (Clarivate Analytics/Thomson Reuters). In her research, she investigates climate extremes (droughts, heatwaves), land-climate processes, and human-induced climate change, based on climate modelling and data analyses, including ground and satellite observations. Sonia Seneviratne has received several awards for her research, among others the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU, 2013) and a con-solidator grant of the European Research Council (ERC, 2014-2019). She was an author on several reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was recently a lead author of the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C global warming. Since 2018, she is a coordinating lead author of the 6th assessment report of the IPCC.