UK-Japan Collaboration Public Lecture "The Past and Future Earth - Climate change and co-existing sustainably with nature"

UK-Japan Collaboration
The Past and Future Earth
Climate change and co-existing sustainably with nature

by the Embassy of Japan in the U.K. & Ritsumeikan University

Promoting research collaboration and academic interaction between Japan and the UK, Ritsumeikan University is delighted to present its Environment Forum supported by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), JCCI (Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the UK), and JETRO London. This is the second public lecture following forum of celebrating the 150th anniversary between UK-Japan collaboration in 2013. Special thanks go to the Embassy of Japan in the UK. The purpose of this forum is to introduce environmental issues in two nations from researchers of both Japan and UK through the sessions and discuss for creating a society capable of co-existing sustainably with nature.

Ritsumeikan Academy, based in Kyoto, is one of the largest private educational foundations in Japan, with a total of 46,000 students. In addition to Ritsumeikan University, founded in 1900 and hosting 32,000 students on four campuses, it also operates Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in Beppu, Kyushu, founded in 2000, together with four junior and senior high schools and one primary school located throughout Japan.

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Contact Information: Ritsumeikan UK Office (Ms. Sakamoto)
+44-207-074-5116 (0207-074-5116)
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Programme:

14:00- Registration

14:30- Opening Speech

Mr. Motohiko Kato, Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom

Dr. Mikio Yoshida, President of the Ritsumeikan University

[ Session 1 ]

14:40-15:00 Dr. Takeshi Nakagawa, Ritsumeikan University
(Director, Professor of Research Centre for Palaeoclimatology)
"The (Mis)Behavior of Climates - How did humans survive episodes of truly drastic regime shifts?"

15:00-15:20 Dr. Eric Wolff, University of Cambridge
(Royal Society Research Professor, Climate Change and Earth-Ocean-Atmosphere Systems)
"Ice as an archive of climate and greenhouse gases"

15:20-15:35 Q&A

[ Session 2 ]

15:35-15:55 Dr. Hiroyuki Mori, Ritsumeikan University
(Professor, Dean, Graduate School of Policy Science)
"Environmental issues of Asbestos; The biggest industrial disasters of the world"

15:55-16:15 Dr. Robert Lowe, University College London
(Professor of Energy & Building Science, Director of UCL Energy Institute)
"Climate change and the energy performance of housing"

16:15-16:30 Q&A

16:30-16:40 Closing Address

16:45-17:45 Reception

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