Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures: Annual Symposium 2023
‘Adapting to climate change:
Local, national and international perspectives’
11th October 2023, 9:00am - 6:00pm
Firth Hall, Firth Court + Online on Blackboard
8.30 - 9.00am
Registration and coffee
9.00 - 9.15am
Welcome & introduction
Tony Ryan - Co-Director, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures
9.15 - 10.30am
Panel discussion: 'Loss & Damage: Who pays, how should it be funded and how do we
improve outcomes?'
Chaired by Rachael Rothman - Co-Director, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures
Panel discussion speakers:
'Why are Small Island Developing States (SIDS) pushing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to pronounce on responsibility for climate change?'
Matthew Bishop - Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Department of Politics and International Relations
'Navigating the complex relationship between attribution science and the Loss and Damage Fund'
Joyce Kimutai - Researcher, Grantham Institute & Principal Meteorologist and Climate Scientist, Kenya Meteorological Department
'Curated transformation offers adaptation pathways grounded in heritage practice for losses and damages from climate change'
Joanne Clarke - School of World Art Studies, University of East Anglia
10.30 - 11.00am
Coffee break
11.00am - 12.15pm
Session 1: ‘The impact of climate change on migration’
Chaired by Rachael Rothman - Co-Director, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures
Speakers:
'The Evidence on Climate Change and Migration'
Jan Selby - Professor of the International Politics of Climate Change, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
'Regions at Risk: Extreme Climate Change, Population & Displacement'
Hadi Arbabi - Lecturer in the Built Environment, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
'Migration and outdoor spaces for children's play'
Helen Woolley - Professor of Landscape Architecture, Children's Environments and Society, Head of Department of Landscape Architecture
12.15 - 1.00pm
Lunch
1.00 - 2.15pm
Session 2: ‘Flooding: Strategies for developing resilience’
Chaired by Liz Sharp - Professor of Water and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Speakers:
'A "People-First" approach to green infrastructure: Sheffield's Grey to Green'
Nigel Dunnett - Professor of Planting Design and Urban Horticulture, Department of Landscape Architecture
'Flood and Coastal Resilience - Responding to the climate emergency'
Steven Tupper - Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy Implementation, Environment Agency
'Climate resilient communities in Latin America'
Soledad Garcia Ferrari - Chair of Global Urbanism and Resilience, ESALA, University of Edinburgh
2.15 - 3.15pm
Coffee and posters
Posters presented by second year Grantham Centre PhD students. New TUoS PhD students will also have a chance to ask about our Grantham Centre training programme.
3.15 - 4.30pm
Session 3: ‘Ensuring food security for the future’
Chaired by Peter Jackson - Co-Director of Institute for Sustainable Food & Professor of Geography
Speakers:
'Transitioning to healthy diets from sustainable sources: Strategies (and barriers) to increase fibre intake in low-income consumers'
Louise Dye - Professor of Nutrition and Behaviour, University of Leeds
'The hidden potential of urban horticulture'
Jill Edmondson - Senior Lecturer & NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow, School of Biosciences
'The Greenhouse Effect: Adapting to climate change with Controlled Environment Agriculture'
Toby Evans - PhD student & Grantham Scholar, School of Biosciences
'Can small-scale urban food growing supplement households’ diets and provide health and wellbeing benefits?'
Bethany Leake - PhD student & Grantham Scholar, School of Biosciences
4.30 - 4.40pm
Double Hundred Challenge
'Supercharging photosynthesis: the key to locking away carbon'
Emily Harrison - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Plants, Photosynthesis and Soil cluster, School of Biosciences
4.40 - 4.45pm
Closing remarks
Rachael Rothman - Co-Director, Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures
4.45 - 5.45pm
Networking and drinks reception
If you're joining the Symposium online, this is the link to join on Blackboard.