The climate crisis affects everyone on the planet. Species are threatened with extinction, huge areas of the world could become uninhabitable, fish stocks and food crops are at risk and severe weather patterns will become more frequent and more intense. Tackling climate change is going to require major changes in the way we live our lives. It will affect how you travel, the home you live in and what you eat. It will see some jobs disappear and others created.  Some people say it will require the complete re-wiring of the way we do business and manage our economies. How bad will the impact of global warming be? How much will you have to change your life? Are we, as some have argued, being too alarmist?

To answer these questions and others, the Daily Mirror has established a special panel of experts. This panel will be chaired by television presenter Chris Packham and includes Doug Parr, the chief scientist of Greenpeace, Dr Tamsin Edwards, a climate scientist at King’s College, London, Dr Nathalie Pettorelli of the Zoological Society of London, Mike Childs of Friends of the Earth, science author Dr Emily Grossman, chief executive of the Woodland Trust, Dr Darren Moorcroft and teenage activist Holly Gillibrand.

They are going to help guide the Mirror’s coverage on this crucial issue and you are invited to attend a special free session we are holding in London on the afternoon of November 4.

The panel will be held in The Royal Society's Kohn Centre - please try to arrive no later than 1.15pm for a 1.30pm start.

Public transport links

Underground stations: Charing Cross and Piccadilly Circus

Bus routes: 12, 13, 15 and 453.

Bicycle parking: There are cycle racks along Carlton House Terrace on either side of the Duke of York monument.