4 May, 2023

We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor V. Ram Ramanathan, Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, United States, Council Member of Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, and the winner of the Blue Planet Prize 2021, to lead a session of the Oxford Interfaith Forum Ecology in Interfaith Contexts Group.

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Here are the details of this fascinating event.

Topic: Bouncing Back from the Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience: Partnership with Faith-Based Organizations

Abstract: Climate Change has already morphed into Climate Crisis, impacting close to 5 billion people with warming-driven extreme weather events. Fossil fuels, the major source of warming, are still contributing more than 78% of global energy. A new approach with a new narrative is required for bouncing back from the crisis cleaner, healthier, and stronger. There is still time to bounce back and become climate resilient. Alliance between science, arts, humanities and faith has the potential to play a major role.

Speaker: Professor V. Ram Ramanathan, Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, United States, Council Member of Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, the winner of the Blue Planet Prize 2021, and the Board Member of the Oxford Interfaith Forum Ecology in Interfaith Contexts Group, UK.

Speaker’s biography: Professor V. Ram Ramanathan is a distinguished professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He leads innovative research projects involving global climate dynamics, the greenhouse effect, air pollution, and climate mitigation.

Professor Ram chairs the United Nations Environment Programme-sponsored Project ABC with science team members from the United States, Europe, India, China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries. He is the recipient of many national and international awards such as the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the Zayed International prize for environment, the American Meteorological Society’s Carl-Gustaf Rossby medal, the Volvo environment prize, and the Buys Ballot medal by the Dutch Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he was awarded the Blue Planet 2021 Prize.

Professor Ram has been elected to the American Philosophical Society, the US National Academy of Sciences, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope John Paul II, the Academia Europea, the Third World Academy of Sciences, and to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He has been part of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was co-awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, since its inception, and for the 2007 report served as one of the lead editors in the panel’s Working Group I report. He is currently the Edward A. Frieman Endowed Presidential Chair in Climate Sustainability.

Chair: Professor Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Programs in Social Ethics at the University of Chicago, USA, and the Board Member of the Oxford Interfaith Forum Science and Religion in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group, UK.

Date: 4 May, 2023

Time: 18:00-19:00 BST | 19:00-20:00 CEST | 10:00-11:00 PDT | 12:00-13:00 CDT | 13:00-14:00 EDT

Venue: online

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